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However, the Office for Budget Responsibility has now confirmed that although it did indeed downgrade productivity, it also predicted this would be "offset" by higher wages increasing the government's tax revenues.

Because “the demand for woven cloth could fluctuate wildly,” she writes, “as quickly as weavers remembered the good wages, memories of periods of acute hardship came flooding back.”

Hardline union USB said wages in Italy "have been stagnant for 30 years".

Those currently earning below the personal allowance of £12,571 will find, as wages rise but thresholds don't, they will pay tax for the first time.

It also says the threshold for higher, advanced and top bands will remain unchanged, meaning more people will pay a higher rate as their wages increase.