Sentences with phrase «labour jobs tax»

If support for a tax rise is conditional upon people not understanding it very well it does pose the question of what would happen if they had it explained to them, or even «misexplained» to them (remember how a National Insurance rise was packaged up as a «Labour jobs tax» by the Tories before the last election?).

Not exact matches

So when coalition politicians try to tell you they've saved Labour's jobs tax, be wary.

They are high - profile measures aimed at stopping Labour's «jobs tax», as the Conservatives put it during the general election campaign.

That «coalition» approach is underpinned by the 97 - 01 policy agenda of new deal on jobs and windfall tax, minimum wage, devolution and FoI, public services, social chapter and pro-EU, feminisation of the PLP through shortlists, alongside macroecon stability, aversion to tax rises spoke to a party coalition; the post-01 agenda was arguably rather narrower, with new labour seeming to be about a particular method of public service reform.

«If, God forbid, David Cameron falls under a bus William Hague would certainly be the next Tory leader Main By conceding the need for spending cuts Ed Balls has made the job of the next Conservative government a lot easier... George Osborne now wants Labour to also concede the need for tax rises»

By conceding the need for spending cuts Ed Balls has made the job of the next Conservative government a lot easier... George Osborne now wants Labour to also concede the need for tax rises

But you omit from your urging that «Labour should build mass support for an alternative that would put jobs, services and tax justice ahead of the needs of the City» commendation of motherhood and apple pie.

Instead of tacitly buying in to the coalition's small state ideological fervour, Labour should build mass support for an alternative that would put jobs, services and tax justice ahead of the needs of the City.

The Conservatives campaigned against «Labour's death tax» and against «Labour's jobs tax».

And yes it does mean looking at tax again but also, a freer labour market, the hiring and firing proposals to make sure that young people aren't turned away from jobs because of the very onerous social employment protection legislation in this country, so we should say to the Liberals on things like that which they are blocking, «Listen we are in a real hole now.

Labour's manifesto says that it will implement Smith and «go further, with a Home Rule Bill to give extra powers to Scotland over tax, welfare and jobs».

Mr Miliband told Labour's youth conference on jobs in Warwick that a Labour Budget would introduce a bank bonus tax which would pay the wages of unemployed people.

They are agreed, however, in their mutual disdain for Labour's hike in National Insurance tax, which both David Cameron and Nick Clegg say is a tax on jobs.

Labour should emphasise tax justice, a living wage, secure jobs, a resolution to the housing crisis, and shifting the economy from one rigged in favour of those at the top in favour of working people.

On tax rises, the IFS has looked at the manifestos, and feel they imply an extra # 7 billion for Labour, an extra # 3 billion for Conservatives (reimposing half the effective «cut» from their much vaunted jobs tax «cut») and the Lib Dems are pretty much on target.

In my view - and as they tell me - those businesses need a fair and flexible labour market and a competitive and low - tax framework to provide jobs and prosperity.

Enthusiastic applause greets his pledge that Labour would tax bankers» bonuses and guarantee a job for every young person out of work for more than a year.

Instead of competing with the Tories over cuts, Labour should be demanding a major public sector investment programme of job creation in infrastructure, housing, and service provision funded, not by any increas in public borrowing, but by taxing the 0.1 % super-rich on their # 190bn gains since the crash 4 years ago.

The Conservatives, as you'd expect, are continuing to make hay on what they call Labour's «jobs tax» - the proposed hike in national insurance (NI) contributions which has so upset business leaders.

We are in doubt of their argument that if Labour were in power they would spend irresponsibly, increase taxes and threaten jobs.

We have therefore agreed that there will need to be: - a significantly accelerated reduction in the structural deficit over the course of a Parliament, with the main burden of deficit reduction borne by reduced spending rather than increased taxes; - arrangements that will protect those on low incomes from the effect of public sector pay constraint and other spending constraints; and - protection of jobs by stopping Labour's proposed jobs tax.

Or he's a responsible and fair - minded chancellor, making sure (he hopes) that Britain is living within its means, borrowing only for capital spending and nothing else by the end of this Parliament, upping Labour's deficit repair job by 60 per cent, adding # 40b to the fiscal consolidation and protecting the state pension and poorer households» child tax credits into the bargain.

Please please please let JC win, we can consign Labour to the dustbin of history and just maybe we will get a centre left party that recognises the importance of business who make money pays their tax creates jobs and makes the economy work so that those least well off can be helped by the rest.

If you want to put jobs, the economy and living standards first, you must vote Labour to stop a landslide victory that could turn Britain into a barren tax haven run in the interests of billionaires.

Vince Cable having called the Tory plans not to implement Labour's National Insurance increase «school boy economics» and «voodoo economics», the LD manifesto says this: «the increase in National Insurance Contributions is a damaging tax on jobs and an unfair tax on employees, so when resources allow we would seek to reverse it.»

Corbyn missed the chance to set out plans to enable city regions to retain local tax revenues for investment in jobs and growth — something for which many Labour council leaders have called.

«Labour has the policies to build a fairer Scotland for the many not the few, with a # 10 - an - hour minimum wage, a ban on zero hour contracts, a jobs first Brexit deal, and taxing big corporations and highest paid five per cent a bit more to fund our schools, hospitals, emergency services and social care.»

John Mann, MP for Bassetlaw, received loud applause from Labour conference delegates when he called from the rostrum for the party to levy a «tax» on Labour MPs with second jobs and outside earnings, and on former Labour ministers who go on to earn fortunes from consultancies and directorships.

arrangements that will protect those on low incomes from the effect of public sector pay constraint and other spending constraints; and protection of jobs by stopping Labour's proposed jobs tax.

In Both the 92 and 2010 elections, there were bigger swings towards us from the middle class than the working class, for different reasons, maybe those who came to us in 92 were Ex SDP, voting for us after it's collapse, and the working class, were sticking too the Tories in Essex, as they hadn't lost so much under the recession, and weren't losing their jobs in the city, the way the middle class were, and read the Suns twaddle about labour saying they'd put the basic rate of tax, when we said we weren't going too.

Labour's deputy leader struggled to give the figures of how much a bankers» tax would raise or how much a job creation plan would cost.

That's why Labour needs to offer hope: a living wage, for instance; letting councils build Britain out of its housing crisis; an industrial strategy to create the renewable energy jobs of the future; turning the bailed - out banks into accountable public investment banks; tax justice; and public ownership of our key utilities.

An inventive Tory party could even couple the huge business tax cut with an increase in the minimum wage well above any amount that Labour would introduce to show that they are both protecting jobs and ensuring that the saving makes it way down to those most in need.

He said: «This was clearly the greatest mistake in Philip Hammond's budget and Labour should be focusing all our fire on reversing this measure in the coming weeks, while every Tory MP needs to ask themselves how they can claim to be the party of entrepreneurship and low taxes while supporting Hammond's job tax on the self - employed.»

If there was a strong Labour left, it could make the case about so many people being on benefits because (radical idea here) there aren't enough jobs to go around; that benefit fraud is exaggerated (costing # 1.2 billion compared to # 70 billion lost through tax avoidance); and that it is an often complicated phenomenon.

«Snapshots of the first week of the campaign from ConservativeHome's panel of candidates - Part two Main Shaun Bailey persuades Hammersmith businesses to emulate national letter - writing campaign against Labour's jobs tax»

But this will have to be paid for, and so the Conservative plans to scrap «Labour's tax on jobs», the national insurance rise, will now be watered down.

The SNP are supporting the people of Glasgow North East through these tough times by freezing the council tax, phasing out prescription charges, taking real action on crime and investing billions in infrastructure to support local jobs while Labour let people down.»

We pay a high price for our high - salaried, highly taxed office jobs and division - of - labour society.