CLEGG PLEDGES 'FAIRER TAXES' TO HELP FAMILIES

Lib Dem Leader Nick Clegg has announced new tax plans to help families and low earners in Newcastle.

Under the Lib Dem proposals no one will pay tax on the first £10,000 they earn.

This will save workers £700 each in income tax.

Many low paid and part time workers will pay no tax at all.

These tax cuts will be paid for by measures including closing tax loopholes exploited by the very rich, taxes on

pollution and a new 'mansion tax' on houses worth more than £2 million.

Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg said: "If you want to know how committed a government is to fairness then look at its

tax system.

"Gordon Brown has created a tax regime that forces some of the lowest earners in society to pay hundreds of

pounds in tax they can't afford, while polluters and rich tax dodgers avoid paying their fair share.

"Meanwhile the Conservatives want tax cuts for millionaires, but say there might be tax rises for everyone else.

"Our plans represent the most radical, far reaching tax reform in a generation. They embody everything we stand for.

"It is right to ask those with the broadest shoulders to bear a little more of the burden so that millions of people on

normal earnings get the break they desperately need."