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After an outcry, including from his own backbenchers, Mr Bos changed his plan, lowering the tax rate and increasing the pension bracket to be taxed.
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At present, personal pension holders in the 40p tax bracket can claim the difference between basic relief.
This is why Mr. Samaras is pressing for more time — until 2016 instead of 2014 — to carry out a new $15 billion package of deeply unpopular austerity measures, including cuts to the public sector and pensions and new tax brackets, as well as $2.6 billion in new taxes.
Such workers undoubtedly gain the most from pension tax relief, since they are in higher tax brackets.
The tax rate in Italy's top bracket is close to 46percentt, among the highest in Europe, while the bloated pension system is in dire need of reform.
While an Isa allows your money to grow free of tax, pension contributions attract tax relief at either 20%, 40% or 45%, depending on your tax bracket.
Lula managed to push a reform of the pension system through Congress, but the payments still favor people in the higher income brackets.
Even people who enjoy a combination of the state pension, the state's earnings-related top-up and a private pension rarely enter the 40p tax bracket.
In pension parlance it is called "drawdown", with canny savers drawing down only enough to stay below the 40% tax bracket.
Bracket busted?
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