Andrew Constantine

I hope that everyone who uses the forum will be happy to sign up to this new petition on the No. 10 Downing Street website (it only went up today, Tuesday 7 August).

There are some good reasons why we should all run with this issue.

1. We all should favour small government and low taxes by instinct.

2. We are fed up with English tax revenues being syphoned off by Brown as part of the Scottish Raj.

3. There is a sub-text behind the proposals of New Labour boosting the regions at the expense of our nation.

4. We want to oppose Labour and their client local councils taking more taxes off us.

So please will you sign it, and also encourage other members and supporters, your neighbours and your family/friends to sign it and pass it on.

Thanks

Andrew Constantine
A United England in a United Kingdom, free of the EU



Your petition has been approved by the Number 10 web team, and
is now available on the Number 10 website at the following
address:

http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/Local-levy/

Your petition reads:

We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to not hesitate
for an instant before kicking into touch any legislative
proposals that would allow councils to levy a supplementary
local business tax of up to 10%.

The committee in the Westminster Union Parliament called "The
Communities and Local Government Committee" has just
recommended that local authorities (i.e. councils) be allowed
to charge businesses in their areas a supplementary business
rate.

The petition asks that such a proposal be strongly resisted.
Business in England already faces some 25 potential taxes, all
with differing compliance regimes and in total imposing a heavy
economic burden on our real wealth generating activities.

The tax revenue raised by this ill-thought through proposal
might amount to some £1.5 billion per year and would represent a
direct transfer of resources from business and real jobs to
councils for them spend on even higher pay and index linked
pension entitlements for their Equality, Diversity and Health &
Safety officers.

England - when left to its own devices - is a unified, fair and
well-run nation state. The last thing we wish to see is more
English tax revenues being raised, and sent to subsidise the
other home nations.

Thanks for submitting your petition.

-- the ePetitions team

g hall

Sign it for the simple reason that we are far to heavily taxed at the moment and unlike the government I cannot simply turn round and extract money from anyone I like by introducing another tax

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gfnewman

I agree with the sentiments of the petition, however I doubt if it will attract the attention of the public somehow. It doesn't strike me as a petition which will have the public sufficiently motivated to sign it.

Instead of making reference "to councils for them spend on even higher pay and index linked pension entitlements for their Equality, Diversity and Health & Safety officers." it would have been better to point out the affect this will have on the pocket of the public. In levying the tax businesses would inevitably pass this charge on to it's customers - prices in the shops go up and affects all 50 million people in England. The Government,by the way, would then have to find a way to massage the inflation statistics downwards!

I think that rising food and service prices are more emotive to the general public than whether council employees enjoy particular benefits. People didn't protest about the Poll Tax because it was going towards paying council employees extra money, or index-linked pensions, they protested because it was going to affect their pockets, and because they felt it was totally wrong.

John Carter

I'm quite sure that people only protested the poll tax because it was Mrs Thatch who tried to introduce it. If it had been Kinnock in power who did exactly the same thing I'm pretty sure there wouldn't have been any protests.

Mind you, Mrs Thatch could have invented the cure for Cancer and the lefties would find something about it to protest about (e.g. "the pill is blue in colour and represents the slavery of the masses!").

mkpdavies

The left managed to find weak spots to attack (IE students being able to not pay and get done by not telling them where they lived etc).

It was all very orchestrated.

As I was a student at the time, it did seem like the world was against us then. Grants were being scrapped, student loans were being brought in instead, so adding more tax on a low income group did seem unfair at the time.

Students have gone from having grants and no fees, to no grants and fees now. That's what you get, when you go from just the countries best and brightest going to University, to it almost being a requirement for everyone!

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