Yet Another High-Tax Resolution Foundation Stooge Enters Government – Guido Fawkes

Yet Another High-Tax Resolution Foundation Stooge Enters Government

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Dan Tomlinson has been appointed exchequer secretary in this morning’s reshuffle. He is yet another disciple of the Resolution Foundation (RF) to enter government, following Budget Man Bell and Starmer’s new economics guru Minouche Shafik. Tomlinson spent seven years at the Resolution Foundation between 2015 and 2022, eventually becoming ‘senior economist’. He was also a key figure in the RF’s ‘Economy 2030 Inquiry’. A report stuffed to the gills with recommended tax hikes…

Here are just a few. There are plenty more…

• Cut the VAT registration threshold to £50,000 then £30,000.
• Create Road Duty for EVs.
• End free carbon permits & introduce carbon border adjustment.
• Encourage local congestion charges.
• Charge Capital Gains Tax on death and when moving out of UK.
• Scrap non-dom status.
• Hike national insurance for higher self-employed incomes by 300% to 8%.
• Hike basic rate of Dividend tax from 8.75% to 20%.

That report is now the blueprint for the government’s economic thinking heading into the omnishambles budget this autumn. The direction of travel from recent personnel changes is clear. Resolution Foundation devotees are sitting at the top table…