Chancellor George Osborne has repeatedly refused to rule out a tax cut for Britain's highest earners if the Conservatives win the election.
Mr Osborne told Sky News' Murnaghan programme his party had "no plans" to further reduce the top rate of tax and insisted it was not a priority.
But Labour pointed out these were same words he used on VAT before the last election, which the Government then raised.
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Mr Osborne said: "You can judge us by what we say we want to do.
"And what we want to do is increase the tax-free personal allowance to £12,500 so people full-time on the minimum wage don't have to pay income tax and millions are better off.
"And when it comes to higher rate taxpayers our priority is increasing the threshold at which you pay that higher rate, the 40p rate, to £50,000.
"Those are our big tax commitments for the coming parliament."
But pressed again over the top rate of income tax, he said: "If that was our priority or our plan we would have made it part of our plan and made it one of our priorities.
"I am telling you what our priority is. We have made a big tax-cutting priority and that's what we are absolutely 100% focused on delivering and achieving.
"Not because it's a nice thing to have but because its central to our economic plan and making work pay."
But Labour's Chris Leslie said this was the same argument previously used by Mr Osborne over VAT, which he had then increased in office.
Mr Leslie said: "That's the same formula he had before the last General Election when he said we have no plans on VAT and of course they did it.
"Their priority is always about helping the very richest in society."
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