What Jeremy should do 🤔

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How to cut the tax burden
This week, we published our submission to the treasury for what we think Jeremy Hunt should include in his budget ([link removed]) next month. Perhaps unsurprisingly, our wish list includes a number of tax cuts.

As regular readers will know, the tax burden is at a 70-year high and forecast to rise further still. Our recent paper ([link removed]) , which got a mention in the Telegraph this week ([link removed]) , showed just how much of a drag a high tax burden can be on growth.
With proposals in our submission ([link removed]) for, amongst others, cuts to income, corporation, and inheritance tax, the chancellor now has a clear roadmap for how to get a handle on Britain's burgeoning tax burden. With spending restraint, the cost of government crisis can be brought under control too.

As our chief executive, John O’Connell, explained in a recent op-ed ([link removed]) for ConservativeHome our high-tax, high-spend model isn’t working: “People aren’t becoming richer and more prosperous, and the cripplingly low growth levels means that public services don’t appear as well-funded as they should be, given the size of the tax burden.”
Tackling the tax burden has become a matter of urgency, yet ministers still can’t seem to make up their minds. Just this week, the chancellor attempted to pour cold water ([link removed]) on the idea of meaningful tax cuts any time soon. Which is why your support is more important than ever.

If you’ve not already done so, be sure to sign our petition to cut income tax now, here ([link removed]) . We’ll be hand-delivering it to the treasury in advance of the budget so we need as many people as possible to sign the petition ([link removed]) . The louder the voice of taxpayers, the better chance we have of forcing Jeremy Hunt’s hand. With your support, this is a battle we can win!

The TPA’s campaigns are only made possible by the generosity of our supporters, people like you. Will you back us today by clicking here to donate? ([link removed])
TaxPayers' Alliance in the news
Council hypocrisy

After it emerged this week that some of the most green-focussed councils have racked up some of the highest amounts of gas and electricity usage ([link removed]) , our head of campaigns, Elliot Keck, sat down with Mike Graham in the TalkTV studio to call out this latest example of town hall hypocrisy ([link removed]) .
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Standing up for ratepayers, Elliot told viewers: “The hypocrisy is pretty astounding… People just want their bins to be collected, their libraries to be open, their schools to be run. They don’t want tomes on how to save the world from council officers!” Watch the wide ranging conversation in full here ([link removed])
Mandarin microaggressions

It sometimes seems like there’s no end to the ways civil servants will find to squander taxpayers’ cash, but even we were shocked to hear that officials have spent £160,000 on training to spot microaggressions, including rolling your eyes and looking at your phone ([link removed]) .
Naturally, John was scathing ([link removed]) about this latest example of public sector waste, rightly telling Daily Mail readers: “Taxpayers are bound to realise that this is another opportunity for civil servants to doss about on their dime.”
Taxpayer funded lobbying

As the government struggles to get its Rwanda bill through the House of Lords, it’s come to light that ministers are doling out taxpayers’ cash to groups lobbying against their legislation ([link removed]) . Since 2020, over £200 million has been handed to charities who claimed the bill is “a threat to the universality of human rights.”
Our researcher, Jonathan Eida, had some advice for the government ([link removed]) when he told Daily Express readers: “Taxpayers are sick of paying for the lobbying merry-go-round, with vast sums handed to organisations who fight the government tooth and nail… Ministers should focus on ensuring public services are up to scratch, rather than channelling cash into those that work so hard against them.” Hear, hear!
Blog of the week
The War on Waste Blog

The latest edition of our War on Waste blog ([link removed]) from TPA investigations campaign manager, Joanna Marchong, certainly doesn’t make for cheery reading. From NHS diversity roles to council award ceremonies, there’s still plenty of fat left to trim.
As Joanna says: “In the face of these examples of waste, we urgently need to prioritise spending on frontline services instead of pointless perks and vanity projects.” Quite right!
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And another thing
Although Jeremy Corbyn may have failed to become prime minister, many of his ideas are still floating around the heads of commentators and policy wonks.

With this in mind, we’ve secured ‘mates-rates’ for TPA subscribers for Land of the superwoke: a guide to Corbyn’s Britain by Lee Rotherham. You can get your copy of this fun (yet frightening) read here. ([link removed])

Benjamin Elks
Grassroots Development Manager

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