Submitted by Mr Thomas J Phillips on Tuesday 11th November 2025
Published on Tuesday 16th December 2025
Current status: Open
Open until: Tuesday 16th June 2026
Current Signatures: 109
(count is updated approximately hourly)
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Broken ~ Busy ~ Change ~ Commons ~ CORE ~ Corporation Tax ~ delayed ~ Democrats ~ Drag ~ Essential ~ Families ~ fiscal ~ Forced ~ frozen ~ House of Commons ~ income tax ~ inflation ~ Integrity ~ investment ~ job creation ~ Legally ~ Lock ~ Major ~ Mandate ~ Manifesto ~ NI ~ Pledges ~ Promises ~ Stability ~ Tax ~ Tax hike ~ uncertainty
Require a 2/3 Commons majority for unmandated tax hikes not in a manifesto
We want a Manifesto (Fiscal) Accountability Act for a Total Tax Lock. This must require a two-thirds majority in the House of Commons for rises in Income Tax, NI, VAT, and Corporation Tax not in a government's manifesto, and an Anti-Fiscal Drag Clause to mandate threshold uprating with inflation.
We think tax promises must be legally binding contracts and that any broken fiscal pledges and stealth taxes (frozen thresholds) destroy economic stability. This uncertainty can force businesses to delay investment, hinder job creation, and reduce the take-home pay of working families. We believe our proposed Act provides certainty for businesses and stability for workers, restoring the essential integrity of the democratic mandate and making it more difficult for governments to unilaterally change core tax policy.
If you want to sign this petition (as opposed to merely discuss it), you need to do that on the government's e-Petitions website.
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