Business leaders are funding a campaign against the tax rate of 50p in the pound.
He wants to cut the lowest rate of income tax from 20p in the pound to 10p.
And since 2008 the fall in the pound against emerging-market currencies has given London an extra boost.
All of this should help to insulate the company against future fluctuations in the pound's value against the euro.
The commission proposes letting the Scottish government vary income-tax rates by 10p in the pound in each tax band.
The administrator will now press on with the plan to repay creditors at least 20p in the pound over five years.
The rise in the pound, however, will not be welcomed by exporters as it makes their goods more expensive for foreign buyers.
The power to use the tartan tax, which can raise or lower income tax by 3p in the pound lapsed in 2007.
Scots seem to like public spending more than the English do, but 3p in the pound will hardly pay for their ambitions.
Given the fall in the pound of about 25% in its trade-weighted value from mid-2007, Britain's trading performance has been rather disappointing.
Everyone knows that the Liberal Democrats, Britain's third party, want to raise an extra penny in the pound on income tax to spend on education.
The fall in the pound may have been disconcertingly large but it marks an overdue adjustment after a long period in which sterling was overpriced.
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And in its quarterly Inflation Report a fortnight ago, the committee presumed, as it has for a while, a gradual decline in the pound's value.
He may have cut 1p off the basic rate of Income Tax, but overall Labour have increased taxes by the equivalent of 8p in the Pound.
However, their creditors have yet to fully approve the Majeeds' offer - of 50 pence in the pound - and it must now pass a vote of all creditors.
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The key issue for creditors will be how much money will be returned to them as part of the CVA, with most expecting a figure between 20-25p in the pound.
The Majeed family have offered creditors 50 pence in the pound to regain ownership, a figure still be approved at a creditors' meeting next week to stop Crawley from folding.
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If the softness seen recently in the pound does become extended, the next logical level of support could come in near 1.5530 and then at a more major zone between 1.5440 and 1.5450.
There are probably two budgets left before the next general election: two one-penny cuts in the basic rate of income tax would allow Mr Brown to go into the election promising a rate of 20p in the pound if Labour is re-elected and dare the Tories to reverse it.
And with Nationalist expectations that they would win far more seats than they did having been dashed, Mr Salmond is already having to deal with internal criticism of the campaign he ran, especially the decision to promise to raise the basic rate of income tax by 1p in the pound.
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And yet the sky did not fall in, the pound remained steady and the continental upper lip stayed admirably stiff.
There is already a hugely effective policy in place that will help support British firms and British workers: the collapse in the value of the pound, which makes it harder for foreigners to find buyers here and easier for British exporters to expand.
In essence, he was directly battling the British central banking system in its attempt to keep the pound artificially competitive in foreign exchange markets.
The weakness in the British pound should also benefit a couple of U.K. brands.
But, as Goldman Sachs points out today in a research note, there's another, simpler side to the story: namely, that fall in the value of the pound.
That said, the competitiveness of British companies has been improved by the prolonged fall, since the great crash of 2007 to 2008, in the value of the pound.
He added that there were some factors helping to keep the economy expanding, most notably the continuing economic stimulus measures and the fall in value of the pound.
Given the plunge in the value of the pound after it was revealed that Sir Mervyn favoured more QE, this session will be scrutinised closely, and could have real-time effects on sterling.
The payout will also go up in dollar terms if the pound continues to appreciate against the dollar, as it has in the past decade.
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It has also increased its lead as the number one town in the region for 'pound shops', with eight operating in the town centre, two more than its nearest rival Sunderland.
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