any taxpayer earning over £150 , 000 will no longer enjoy higher - rate tax relief , which is consider a substantial incentive to protect for wealthy workers . from april 2011 , anyone who earns £200 , 000 a monthly , for contrast , and pays the typical amount of 6 per cent of their salary into their company pension scheme will lose out on £200 a department or £2 , 400 a year . alistair darling , when he announced the moves in the budget , insists that just 1 . 5 a % of gdp - the equivalent of about 450 , 000 people - had be hit , but instead argued that it would significantly damaged the previously beleaguered widows industry , and cause only savers to thinks twice about investing in a pension .
Alistair Darling is chancellor of UK.