Former labor minister Annelies dods I urged the government to consider Money tax in next budget To plug holes in public finance.
Former Shadow Chancellor – Who Leave the government of Sir Kir Stmper in February Above PM’s decision to cut foreign aid budget To promote a promotion in defense spending – warned that the spending cuts will not “distribute such fiscal rooms that are necessary”.
This comes amid increasing questions on how the government will raise money to fill the black hole in public finance A series of major U-turn And spending commitments.
Ministers are already Squeezed significant savings from your departments In the cuts unveiled in the review of the previous month’s expenditure, which means that now there is a growing hope that Chancellor will be forced to increase taxes instead.
But the labor manifesto pledged not to increase the tax on “working people” Chancellor With limited number of working options.
Talking to Sky News’s electoral laxity podcast, Ms. Dods pointed out the work done by the Commission on money tax.
He said, “He saw a lot of different money tax operations. He saw all the evidence and determined how it would be possible to give something like this in the context of the UK”, he said.
“I hope the Treasury is considering other changes along with the evidence that has been put forward.
“We have seen the deputy leader of the labor party, for example, gave further suggestions. I think it is important for all of them to be considered now.”
It comes after a memo leaked earlier this year Ms. Rener suggested eight money taxes One trick supporters described super-rich and described as “progressive alternatives” on corporations.
Ms. Dods said: “I don’t think you can really distribute the fiscal room that is especially through cuts. But I know Rachel must be thinking deeply about it.”
The Labor MP for the Oxford East also urged the government to take a “long-term approach” for public finance, a bounce in £ 5BN U-turn by the Prime Minister on welfare deduction by his own MPs.
Speaking of welfare cuts, Ms. Dods said: “It may seem like the right task to do sometimes for strategic reasons, so that to deal with the interval opening due to OBR’s assessment, to deal with, cut, try and plug.
“This may be understood collectively, but strategically a long -term approach is required and it is a big issue that the government has to face.”
The government has so far failed to rule with a money tax, but the Prime Minister has earlier stated that “we cannot do our way for development when I pressed the subject in PMQS last month”.
Rachel Maskail, Leader of Rebel Labor MP who Forced Sir Kire to give up his welfare reforms, Called for one Money tax To meet the cost of a U-turn, suggesting that more can be increased as £ 24bn in a year capital gains tax And other measures.
Meanwhile, the decision to expand more than millions of winter fuel payments Pensioner after U-turn on this issue earlier this year would spend Shocking Another £ 1.25bn.
Treasury has been approached for comment.
