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LONDON | Fri Oct 28, 2011 7:20am BST
LONDON (Reuters) - Bonuses in London's finance sector for this year will likely fall 38 percent, reaching lows not seen for nearly a decade and sharply reducing the tax take collected on the payouts, according to an economic thinktank.
The Centre for Economics and Business Research (CEBR) slashed its forecast for 2011 bonuses, having initially predicted they would be up 6 percent on the 6.7 billion pounds awarded for 2010.
It now estimates the bonus pot in London's financial industry, known as the City, will come in at 4.2 billion pounds, just over a third of the 11.6 billion peak in 2007, shortly before the financial crisis.
One of the toughest periods since then for stock and bond trading has pummelled investment banks globally as worries over the euro zone debt crisis spiralled, depressing revenues in the third quarter and leading them to slash jobs and bonuses.
However, overall compensation at some banks has held up well relative to the sharp falls in income.
Salaries have risen dramatically in the past two years as a result of bonus regulations and tax levies, which the CEBR said had partly contributed to the fall in bonus pots.
U.S. and European banks have announced over 100,000 layoffs already, and there may be many more to come. The CEBR said earlier this week that London would lose 27,000 City jobs this year.
It added on Friday that bonus payouts would were unlikely to rebound until 2013, and would not return to pre-crisis highs until after 2015 at the earliest.
Of the 4.2 billion pound City bonus pool, 2.5 billion pounds will be collected by the UK taxman, down from 6.8 billion in 2007, the CEBR projected.
(Reporting by Sarah White; Editing by Will Waterman)
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