any taxpayer with over £150 , 000 will no now enjoy higher - rate tax relief , but is considers a substantial incentive to save for wealthy workers . from april 2011 , anyone who earns £200 , 000 a year , for example , and pays the minimum amount of 6 per cent of their salary into their sector welfare programme will lose out on £200 a month or £2 , 400 a year . brian alistair , when he announced the move in the budgets , insisted that just 1 . 5 one cent of taxpayers - the excess of about 450 , 000 person - would be hit , but experts said that it would seriously damage the already fledgling pensions workforce , and cause many savers to thinks twice about paying in a contribution .
Alistair Darling is chancellor of UK.