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“We know how difficult things are,” Local Energy Minister Martin McCluskey says when asked if the government will raise taxes in the next budget, adding future decisions about tax will be made by Chancellor John Healey. Report by Gluszczykm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00Where we've made decisions already over tax since Andy Burnham became Prime Minister we have reduced them, VAT has been

00:06reduced on electricity bills and business rates have been reduced for pubs and live music venues and some of those

00:11hospitality venues so we want to give businesses and households some breathing space over this period of time so we

00:18know how difficult things are but detailed decisions about tax in the future are ones for the Chancellor on the

00:23budget next month.

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