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Raise taxes appropriately and fairly to provide essential public services.

Submitted on Saturday 23rd March 2024

Rejected on Tuesday 9th April 2024

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: no-action (see below for details)

Petition Action

Raise taxes appropriately and fairly to provide essential public services.

Petition Details

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.

Additional Information

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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This petition was rejected

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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