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Brown's tax raid on pensions

Simon Moon, This is Money
Updated 4 April

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The furore triggered by revelations about Gordon Brown's 1997 decision to tax pension funds is threatening to blow up into a major crisis.

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Documents released under the Freedom of Information Act show civil servants warned at the time that the move, which finally resulted in a £5bn pensions raid, could lead to the closure of many occupational services

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