>Andy Burnham has suggested he could hit landowners with heavier taxes if he becomes prime minister, as the Greater Manchester mayor formally launched his campaign to return to Westminster.
>Burnham, who is fighting to beat Reform UK in next month’s Makerfield by-election, said he believed land was “undertaxed” in Britain, as he came under pressure to say how he would fund his plans for government.
>He has already been forced to commit to sticking to the government’s self-imposed borrowing rules, after bond markets reacted negatively to his bid to replace Sir Keir Starmer as prime minister.
>At his campaign launch on Friday Burnham indicated that he was open to radical tax reform, reflecting his longstanding view that tax should be shifted from income derived from work to income from wealth and assets. “I see a big case for land and business and property tax to be changed,” he said, adding that he was also keen to reform “highly regressive” council tax.
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SS: b-based Burnham???
>Andy Burnham has suggested he could hit landowners with heavier taxes if he becomes prime minister, as the Greater Manchester mayor formally launched his campaign to return to Westminster.
>Burnham, who is fighting to beat Reform UK in next month’s Makerfield by-election, said he believed land was “undertaxed” in Britain, as he came under pressure to say how he would fund his plans for government.
>He has already been forced to commit to sticking to the government’s self-imposed borrowing rules, after bond markets reacted negatively to his bid to replace Sir Keir Starmer as prime minister.
>At his campaign launch on Friday Burnham indicated that he was open to radical tax reform, reflecting his longstanding view that tax should be shifted from income derived from work to income from wealth and assets. “I see a big case for land and business and property tax to be changed,” he said, adding that he was also keen to reform “highly regressive” council tax.
If you’re interested: a Guardian piece from 2010 written by Burnham himself where he was advocating for land value tax https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2010/aug/26/land-value-tax-labour-party
maybe the only thing in the uk that’s undertaxed
Well, that’s an attack ad that writes itself.