article_snippet.sent: Mr Cameron has a 'secret plan' to cut taxes for millionaires after the General Election, Ed Balls claimed today as Labour ramped up Labour attack on the eighth day of campaigning.
article_snippet.sent: Ed Balls, speaking in Leeds this morning, ramped up the Prime Minister attack on the Tories today - claiming that Mr Cameron was planning a VAT increase and cuts to the top rate of tax .
article_snippet.sent: Mr Cameron has claimed that Labour are planning to increase taxes by £3,028 on 'every working family'.
article_snippet.sent: But, speaking in Leeds this morning, Ed Balls predicted that a Conservative government would hike VAT - something Mr Cameron has explicitly ruled out - and cut the top rate of income tax for earnings over £150,000 from 45p to 40p.
article_snippet.sent: Tory Treasury minister David Gauke hit back with an accusation that Labour has a secret plan to boost revenues by dragging more workers into the 40p higher rate of income tax and increasing national insurance contributions.
article_snippet.sent: Mr Cameron and Mr Osborne, who cut the top rate of income tax from 50p to 45p in his 2012 Budget, each refused to rule out a further cut to 40p in comments on Sunday.
article_snippet.sent: Mr Cameron and Mr Osborne, who cut the top rate of income tax from 50p to 45p in his 2012 Budget, each are expected to come under further pressure on the issue during campaigning in the South West.
article_snippet.sent: Mr Balls said: 'We know that is their secret plan - another big tax cut for millionaires. '
article_snippet.sent: Mr Balls said a cut in the top rate to 40p would save someone earning £1 million a year £340,000 over the course of the next Parliament, while someone with income of £5 million would get a total tax cut of £1.94 million over the five-year period.
article_snippet.sent: Meanwhile, Mr Balls said that unfunded Conservative plans to cut £10 million from income tax by raising thresholds for the 20p and 40p rates would require the equivalent of a two-point rise in VAT, costing an average couple with children £1,440 over four years.
article_snippet.sent: However, Conservatives claimed secret Labour plans for tax rises would cost each working family more than £3,000 over the course of the next five years - an estimate which was dismissed as unfounded by independent economists at the Institute for Fiscal Studies a week ago.
article_snippet.sent: Mr Gauke said: 'Ed Balls and Ed Miliband must set out the details of Ed Balls and Ed Miliband secret plan for GBP3,028 of tax rises on every working family - the British people have a right to know what these tax hikes are.
article_snippet.sent: But Mr Balls confirmed that the party would restore the 50p top rate for earnings over £150,000, as well as imposing a mansion tax, a levy on tobacco companies and closing tax loopholes.
article_snippet.sent: Mr Clegg said millions of people would get a tax cut worth almost £400 from a Liberal Democrat pledge to push the income tax personal allowance to £12,500.
highlights_snippet.sent: Ed Balls said 'millions are paying more while millionaires pay less'
  Claimed the Prime Minister was planning a cut in the top rate of tax .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Mr Cameron said Labour   is planning tax rises worth £3,000 to every working family .