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[Your address here]  [Name of your MP] House of Commons,  Dear
[Name of your MP here] MP,  I am writing to ask you to support
two amendments to the Finance Bill proposed by Stella Creasy MP.
Amendments to Clauses 5 and 72 are due to be tabled this week in
the House of Commons. The amendments will ask the Government to
review whether the bank levy or corporation tax could be used to
deter legal loan sharks from extortionate levels of interest on
credit which they regularly sell to vulnerable consumers.  Since
the recession hit a third of families are now spending more a
month than they have coming in. 4 in 10 Britons are worried
about their debt, five million are permanently overdrawn, and
22% will carry a credit card debt throughout 2011. The payday
lending industry is taking advantage of a lack of access to
credit and the vulnerability of these consumers, by charging
interest rates of up to 4,000% or