{"id":94306,"date":"2026-07-26T07:37:36","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T06:37:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=94306"},"modified":"2026-07-26T07:39:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T06:39:07","slug":"do-we-need-to-raise-tax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2026\/07\/26\/do-we-need-to-raise-tax\/","title":{"rendered":"Do we need to raise tax?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am on LBC Radio with Matthew Wright at 8 am this morning. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lbc.co.uk\/radio\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">It is here on the web.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I have been asked to discuss whether Andy Burnham's plans for extra state spending, nationalisation and more will require additional taxes. The framing is that of the household analogy.<\/p>\n<p>I am bound to be on with someone else. No doubt they will be claiming that the analogy is true.<\/p>\n<p>This could be fun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am on LBC Radio with Matthew Wright at 8 am this morning. It is here on the web. I have been asked to discuss<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2026\/07\/26\/do-we-need-to-raise-tax\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94306"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94309,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94306\/revisions\/94309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}