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Anyone frustrated by the UK election campaigning and convinced that they could do better at tackling the national deficit can test their ideas by designing their own tax system using an online calculator designed by the think-tank Reform. Putative chancellors can see how changing the thresholds and rates of income tax and national insurance contributions would alter their own tax bills and affect the nation's finances.

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Reform argues that the main UK political parties are planning to increase taxes too much. It recommends rises of [pounds sterling]12bn over the next three years, as opposed to increases of [pounds sterling]22bn planned by the...

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