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| Treasury collects £6.60 an hour in taxes The Treasury collected £6.60 an hour for every hour that taxpayers worked last year - more than the minimum wage and more than £1 above what was paid five years ago. The figures are the latest indication that Gordon Brown, who will become prime minister next month, has presented families with an increasingly onerous tax burden. Presuming each of the 29.7 million taxpayers in the country works an eight-hour day, and takes standard time off for holiday, they each contributed £6.60 for every hour that they worked. Back in 2002, the 28.6m taxpayers handed over £5.31 an hour to the Government....... http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.../28/ntax28.xml      |
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