Tories rumoured to announce pensions raid to fund income tax break

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The Budget 2015 could see the Tories pledge to raise the income tax bracket by cutting the pensions annual and lifetime allowances, according to reports.

Chancellor George Osborne is expected to increase the national insurance threshold to ease the tax burden on the lower paid during his speech on March 18, The Times has claimed. But Labour is ...

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