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Poorer families would shoulder heavier burden of Brexit costs - report
Low-income households are likely to shoulder a disproportionate share of the costs of Brexit if the UK votes to leave the EU in this month’s referendum, a respected thinktank has warned. Under a worst-case scenario some low-income households could receive as much as £5,542 per year less in tax credits and benefit payments in 2020, according to the National Institute of Economic and Social Research. NIESR concludes that Brexit would knock government tax receipts and so force changes to tax and spending policies, assuming the government sticks to tough goals under George Osborne’s fiscal charter to get the public ... (full story)
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