{"id":340308,"date":"2021-10-07T12:27:11","date_gmt":"2021-10-07T12:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thecanary.co\/?p=1490049"},"modified":"2021-10-07T12:27:11","modified_gmt":"2021-10-07T12:27:11","slug":"despite-the-revelations-in-the-pandora-papers-a-right-wing-thinktank-wants-to-tax-poorer-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/10\/07\/despite-the-revelations-in-the-pandora-papers-a-right-wing-thinktank-wants-to-tax-poorer-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Despite the revelations in the Pandora Papers, a right-wing thinktank wants to tax poorer people"},"content":{"rendered":"

Council tax must be raised to keep local services at pre-pandemic levels, a right-wing thinktank has said<\/a>. The Institute for Fiscal Studies claims a 3.6% rise on council tax will be needed over the next four years. But it could be<\/a> as high as 5%.<\/p>\n

And the news comes as the Tory government cuts<\/a> \u00a320 from universal credit, leaving many at risk, and at a time when gas prices are extremely volatile<\/a>. It also follows the recent revelations<\/a> of the so-called Pandora Papers.<\/p>\n

Regressive<\/h5>\n

On Twitter, people warned the hike would hit the poorest:<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s not levelling up if you cut \u00a31,000 from the poorest households, if you raise taxes for lower paid workers and if you put up council tax which makes up 5 times more of the budgets of poorer people than those of the well off.<\/p>\n

— Bill Esterson (@Bill_Esterson) October 7, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n