Hundreds of millionaires working in Britain's banks will receive an average tax cut of almost £54,000 when the top rate of tax is abolished this weekend, according to figures compiled by the Labour party.
The changes mean that 643 bankers, each earning more than £1m, could get a combined tax cut worth at least £34.6m.
Labour's figures were derived from details of published accounts by banks showing the number of employees earning more than £1m in the past year. It is not known what proportion of these – other than the employees of HSBC – currently pay taxes in the UK.
But the figures suggest that if they received the same remuneration in the tax year that starts on 6 April, the 40 highest paid senior executives in the major UK banks would get a combined tax cut worth almost £4m – an average of £99,694 each under the coalition's plans to reduce the top rate of tax from 50p to 45p from Saturday if they are domiciled in Britain for tax purposes.
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