{"id":76055,"date":"2024-06-13T07:51:09","date_gmt":"2024-06-13T06:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=76055"},"modified":"2024-06-13T07:51:09","modified_gmt":"2024-06-13T06:51:09","slug":"show-us-your-workings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2024\/06\/13\/show-us-your-workings\/","title":{"rendered":"Show us your workings"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have posted this short video<\/a> this morning. In it, I argue that all our political parties are selling us shorty by claiming that they are supplying 'fully-costed' manifestos at this election, and so far, none of them have even come close to doing so. In that case \"show us your workings\" is a reasonable demand to make.<\/p>\n

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The video can be viewed here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The transcript is:<\/p>\n

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All the political parties are claiming that they are presenting \u2018fully-costed\u2019 manifestos at the upcoming general election.<\/em><\/p>\n

No, they're not. That's nonsense. I've looked at some of the manifestos that have already been offered, and they're offering some workings, but without any explanation as to how they come to some amazingly large numbers.<\/em><\/p>\n

For example, the Liberal Democrats have a figure for \u00a37. 2 billion that they're going to recover from tackling tax avoidance and tax evasion. Now I don't dispute that that is possible, particularly if, as they say, they're going to spend \u00a31 billion extra on staffing at HM Revenue and Customs. But I still don't know how they got to the number because they don't show their workings.<\/em><\/p>\n

I'm sure that everybody watching this video did at some time suffer a maths lesson where a teacher said to them \u201cshow your workings\u201d because that's the way you'll get the marks, and that's true of our political parties.<\/em><\/p>\n

Unless they show their workings, their costings are meaningless.<\/em><\/p>\n

So, give us your workings.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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