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Pege 6. - - More Millionaires

The Bulletin Vol. 2, No. 5, 2 February 1963 · p. 8 of the scan · 133 words

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a Paddington Correspondent. )

he number of people officially described as millionaires (those with an income of at least £100,000) has jumped from 18 to 81, Figures given in the report of tho Inland Reverme Commissioners for 1962 show that tha millionairos total income for 1962 amounted to £14,100,000 an average of over £170,000, The near millionaires (income £75,000 to £100,000) also increased in numbers from 58 to 82, at the other end of the scale there were 6,884,000 people whose incoma was less than £10 per week, These extromes of wealth will be sven more marked as the number of unemployed inorease (these figures do not cover the period of the big incroase in unemployment) and when the Tory measure cutting Surtax to the oxtend of £83 millions comes into force, :

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