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  Courtesy Independent....
  
  Tenants may beat 'bedroom tax' with new bathrooms
  
  Hundreds of people who could fall victim to the "bedroom tax" are to benefit from new plans
  
  to convert spare bedrooms into bathrooms.
  
  The move, by the social landlord Magenta Living, the largest registered provider of social
  
  housing in the Wirral, is expected to affect around 200 homes initially.
  
  The former Welfare minister Frank Field, the Labour MP for Birkenhead who has called on people
  
  to "brick up" their doors and "knock down the walls" to avoid paying the tax, welcomed the move
  
  : "The bedroom tax is iniquitous and Magenta is clearly undertaking this review with tenants in mind
  
  and I think they need to be applauded."
  
  He added: "I hope this encourages others to follow suit." Mr Field described the bedroom tax as "the
  
  most vicious" form of taxation since the poll tax, and called on the Government to "abandon this
  
  wicked measure".

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