{"id":75969,"date":"2024-06-10T07:58:50","date_gmt":"2024-06-10T06:58:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=75969"},"modified":"2024-06-10T07:58:50","modified_gmt":"2024-06-10T06:58:50","slug":"labour-will-not-be-taxing-wealth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2024\/06\/10\/labour-will-not-be-taxing-wealth\/","title":{"rendered":"Labour will not be taxing wealth"},"content":{"rendered":"

As the FT reports<\/a> this morning:<\/p>\n

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The Tories introduced the lifetime pension cap. Based on the value of a fund, and not just contributions, it has caused major difficulties for hospital consultants in particular. There was an obvious problem needing a solution.<\/p>\n

The Tory solution was to abandon the cap.<\/p>\n

That solved nothing but perpetuated a massive bias towards wealth in the pension system.<\/p>\n

Now, Labour says it will maintain that bias.<\/p>\n

It could have instead said it would abandon the cap and cut the rate of relief on contributions. That would have worked. But no, there is nothing like that. There's just another \u00a3800 million bung to the wealthy.<\/p>\n

Ending the two-child benefit cap to take 1 million children out of poverty would cost \u00a32,000 million (\u00a32 billion). Apparently, that's not possible. If you can work out the logic of that and come to any answer that includes the terms 'economic sense' and 'empathy', I will be amazed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As the FT reports this morning: The Tories introduced the lifetime pension cap. Based on the value of a fund, and not just contributions, it
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