First, an income-tax system with a single rate remains progressive the rich pay a higher proportion of their income than the poor as long as it is combined with a tax-free allowance.
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That 66.6% is very strange indeed because the tax free personal allowance is withdrawn in that income band.
There is now no good reason why the Justice Department should defend the income tax free ministerial housing allowance.
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Eventually, ministers successfully claimed they were entitled to the same tax-free cash housing allowance that was available to the military and to secular employees under the convenience of the employer doctrine.
By enacting Section 107(2), Congress simply kept the existing tax treatment of all ministers by recognizing in the statute that their cash housing allowance was tax-free like the cash military housing allowance.
Mr Cable called for pensioners' benefits such as the winter fuel allowance, free TV licences and travel passes to be taxed.
He may also regret hinting on BBC Radio 4's World at One that he would re-examine benefits which go to even the richest pensioners such as Winter Fuel Allowance, free bus passes and free TV licence.
On top of this, the paper suggests scrapping current rules that guarantee that the state pension "will rise annually by an average of 0.26% more than earnings" and restricting universal benefits to pensioners, such as winter fuel allowance, free TV licences and free bus travel.
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The BBC understands discussions are continuing in Whitehall about whether it is possible to limit pensioner benefits - such as the winter fuel allowance, bus pass and free TV licence - without breaking Prime Minister David Cameron's election promise that he would preserve them.
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He also argues that pensioners' top-up benefits - the free bus pass, TV licence and winter fuel allowance - should be means-tested for the richest.
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These included the free TV licences and travel concessions that older people are entitled to as well as the winter fuel allowance.
The free postage is not meant to be used for circulars of any kind and Mr Foster later used his expenses allowance to pay for the letters.
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