Submitted on Saturday 23rd March 2024
Rejected on Tuesday 9th April 2024
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: no-action (see below for details)
Raise taxes appropriately and fairly to provide essential public services.
I would like Parliament to acknowledge, contrary to the general narrative, that tax rises are not always bad. In an economy (2021 ONS) with £11.4 trillion of assets and a balance of payments deficit and with public services generally under pressure tax rises should be seen as a common sense option.
The ONS 23-24 forecast £950.5 billion Tax Rev (TR) and £2,573 Billion (GDP). UK figures are approaching 37.7 % TR/GDP in 26/27 but little account is taken of the number of, say, pay rolled employees going up and comparison with other countries which still shows the UK at 16th (cf current 28th) and still below EU14 average. An increase of 1p for employees in say income bracket (£50-100K) would realise approximately £2.7 billion. This is just one of many potential tax revenue sources.
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
Petitions need to call on the Government or Parliament to take a specific action.
We understand that you want to see some increases to taxes, but we're not sure exactly what taxes you want to be increased, or how.
You could start a new petition explaining clearly what you would like the Government or Parliament to do.
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