{"id":101043,"date":"2018-11-09T00:49:06","date_gmt":"2018-11-08T17:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/in-search-of-a-fairer-system-of-taxation-letters\/"},"modified":"2018-11-09T01:02:50","modified_gmt":"2018-11-08T18:02:50","slug":"in-search-of-a-fairer-system-of-taxation-letters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/in-search-of-a-fairer-system-of-taxation-letters\/","title":{"rendered":"In search of a fairer system of taxation | Letters"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nReaders respond to Polly Toynbee\u2019s suggestion that the inability to raise tax has become Britain\u2019s political diseasePolly Toynbee\u2019s suggestion that higher taxes for all are inevitable (The refusal to raise tax has become our national disease, 6 November) ignores numerous different approaches, changes in priorities and potential savings that could mean we can all enjoy higher levels of investment in public services without raising taxes or increasing borrowing.In September, AAT published a short report highlighting \u00a327bn of annual savings that could be made without raising taxes or increasing borrowing \u2013 by scrapping car tax and fuel duty and replacing it with a pay-as-you-drive system, by simplifying inheritance tax, and removing higher rate tax relief for pension contributions, to name just three of our proposals. Such changes might require politicians to tell some uncomfortable truths but, given that the outcome would be a simpler, fairer alternative to raising revenue, they are truths the electorate would be more likely to accept. Phil HallHead of public affairs and public policy, Association of Accounting Technicians Continue reading…
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