any taxpayer earning over £150 , 000 will no more enjoy higher - rate tax relief , as is considers a substantial incentive to afford for rich workers . from april 2011 , anyone if earns £200 , 000 a year , for example , and receives the typical amount of 6 per cent of their salary into their company pension scheme will lose out on £200 a month or £2 , 400 a summer . brian darling , when he announced the shift in the budget , insisted that just 1 . 5 of quadrant of taxpayers - the equivalent of about 450 , 000 euros - would be hit , but critics argued that it would significantly damage the yet beleaguered pensions industry , and causing fewer savers to thinks twice about living in a pension .
Alistair Darling is chancellor of UK.