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UK walks back controversial plan to cut top tax rate

In a statement on Monday, finance minister Kwasi Kwarteng said the tax cut for the highest earners “had become a distraction” from the government’s wider package of measures to tackle the energy crisis and to reduce taxes more broadly, in its efforts to end years of economic torpor. “We get it, and we have listened,” he said.

‘Symbolic’ move “This move is rather symbolic, being less about the amount of money it will save and more about the poor signal it had delivered of ideological tax cuts,” wrote Chris Turner, global head of UK markets at ING. The scale of the challenge was underscored late Friday when ratings agency S&P reduced its outlook for the credit rating on UK sovereign debt to “negative” from “stable.

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