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But on Tuesday as part of the measures announced in the budget, HM Revenue and Customs told the financial institutions that were going to be operating the scheme on behalf of the government that it would not be going ahead because of monetary constraints. Continue reading&#8230;&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource : theguardian.com&#013;<br \/>\nRead more&#8230;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/money\/2010\/jun\/24\/budget-gateway-saving-scrapped\" target=\"_blank\">Budget: saving scheme for low earners scrapped<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#013; Treasury slams the door on Labour&#8217;s Saving Gateway which aimed to give 50p boost for&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75ss1-lu","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6744,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/labours-50p-tax-rate-what-you-need-to-know\/","url_meta":{"origin":1332,"position":0},"title":"Labour&#039;s 50p tax rate: what you need to know","date":"January 27, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Q&A: how much tax would top earners pay under Ed Balls's proposals, and how much would be raised?To help rescue the UK's finances after the financial crisis, in 2010 the previous Labour administration introduced an additional tax rate of 50% of earnings above \u00a3150,000. 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