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Barry Legg's Letter to The Telegraph on Tax Increases

Barry Legg European Union Taxation Comment and Analysis Euro and Economy Rebuttals Enlargement Thursday, 09 September 2021

SIR – Extra taxation on savers to fund the NHS and care-home fees is bizarre.

Some paying the extra tax may have been motivated to save in order not to depend on the state in their old age. Now achieving that objective will be undermined.

Others will be care-home residents, now having to make a higher tax contribution to fellow residents' costs.

Barry Legg
Chairman of the Treasury Select Committee 1992-97
London SW1

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Barry Legg

Barry Legg was Chairman of the House of Commons Treasury Select Committee. He was the Conservative Party’s Chief Executive and a former MP, representing Milton Keynes South West. Whilst in Parliament Barry was a Maastricht rebel. He is also a businessman and Chairman of the Bruges Group.