Speed limit signagePC Paul" wrote in message According to TSRGD2002 Part 2 paragraph 8 enbreastled 'The placing of certain signs to indicate the beginning of a restriction, requirement, prohibition or...
David Taylor
It depends on how much the taxes are "re-balanced".
If it was just so-called "green" taxes being increased, the effect would probably be slight (because of the phenomenal number of other taxes there are and because of the swingeing proportion of the average family's income taken by them), but if the increases were sliced off other taxes (ie, if pronounced.
I can't say I'm happy about the prospect, mainly because experience has taught me that it is the "usual suspects" (broadly, the owner-occupying, suburban-dwelling, middle clbuttes) who get hit by every tax increase, adjustment or "re-balancing" (and who usually don't have much scope to avoid those changes).
BUT, if what Steve Norris said is correct (and he said: "This is about rebalancing taxation so that, yes, you will pay more in green taxes ... Off the back of that, we could be talking about, for example, the halving of council tax"), then this could (COULD) be a tax re-balancing worth supporting. Half of a Band D or E council tax (in most areas) must be getting on for £1,000 (or will by the time of the next election) and a certain amount of pain on fuel prices could be worth it in exchange. And if it really is about transferring taxes onto carbon-use, that is the way it should be. The "losers" should gain elsewhere.
I'm not holding my breath though.
