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Return to: - TAX RELIEF, Glencote, Eversley, Hants, RG27 0QU.

Join our campaign to urge Tony Blair to cooperate fully in the construction of the TAXPAYERS’ CHARTER to agree permanently sensible and acceptable levels of tax. Taxpayers only have a small window in which to influence the future of taxation – at election time. Once that’s over, there is the danger that promises on taxation may be broken.

“No plans to increase tax at all” (Tony Blair, Financial Times, 21.9.95)
“Our proposals do not involve raising taxes” (Tony Blair, Daily Express 2.8.96)
“We want people to pay lower taxes” (Tony Blair, LIFFE/CLC lecture 16.9.96)
“The programme of the Labour Party does not imply any tax increases at all” (Tony Blair, BBC Radio 4 8.1.97)
“The entire Tory case that there is an agenda of tax increases is simply untrue” (Tony Blair, BBC Radio 4, 3.4.97)

And what has actually happened with taxes since 1997:

Income tax increased from 10% of household income in 1997 to 12.5% in 2000
Council tax increased from an average of £689 a year in 1998 to £976 in 2003
Petrol and Diesel Tax increased; Road Tax increased; Stamp Duty increased
Tobacco Tax increased; Insurance Premium Tax increased
National Insurance increased for middle income earners and self-employed
National Insurance imposed on employers providing benefits in kind
Pension Funds taxed; Charities taxed; Energy use by manufacturers taxed
People working overseas taxed
Married Couples Allowance abolished; MIRAS abolished; Capital Gains Tax Retirement Relief abolished
Tax Relief on Private Medical Insurance for over 65’s abolished
Corporation Tax payments brought forward
A million more people paying highest-rate tax now than in 1997
Tax burden on the poorest twenty per cent of households rose from 37% of gross income in 1997 to 40% in 1999

The government justified all this by saying:

“We have always been clear that the tax burden had to rise” (Gordon Brown, The Guardian 5.11.99)
“We made no promises in relation to the tax burden” (Gordon Brown, Daily Mail, 15.12.99)

TAX RELIEF will be asking the current government and all future governments to abide by the Taxpayers’ Charter which will state among other things:

1. Acceptable and affordable levels of tax for private individuals and businesses
2. Fairer and simpler taxation and tax relief rules, forms and procedures
3. Increased incentives for savings, investments and pensions
4. Tax breaks where needed (for example: working parents paying for child care; foster carers; families with handicapped children or elderly dependant relatives)
5. Regularly published government figures on taxation

A consultation period of several months will take place while the Taxpayers’ Charter is discussed, formulated and finalised. Please sign the campaign letter and return to us at:-
TAX RELIEF, Glencote, Eversley, Hants, RG27 0QU.
Please join us and help make our voice as loud and clear as possible.

CAMPAIGN LETTER

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