article_snippet: In next week's Budget, Chancellor George Osborne, is expected to announce a further increase in the personal allowance, along with modest cuts in alcohol duties.
article_snippet: George Osborne will pledge to tackle the scandal of ordinary workers being dragged into the 40p tax rate next week in George Osborne last Budget before the election.
article_snippet: The Chancellor is expected to fast-track plans to raise the starting threshold for paying the higher rate tax to £50,000, if the Tories win the election.
article_snippet: At the time, George Osborne said only that the threshold – currently £41,865 – would rise to £50,000 by 2020.
article_snippet: George Osborne is expected to fast-track plans to raise the starting threshold for paying the higher rate tax to £50,000 if the Tories win the election .
article_snippet: But Prime Minister David Cameron is understood to be pushing for a commitment to begin raising the threshold next year.