{"id":100536,"date":"2023-12-03T02:13:32","date_gmt":"2023-12-03T02:13:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/turbocelebrity.com\/?p=100536"},"modified":"2023-12-03T02:13:32","modified_gmt":"2023-12-03T02:13:32","slug":"conservative-minister-is-urged-to-correct-the-commons-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/turbocelebrity.com\/world-news\/conservative-minister-is-urged-to-correct-the-commons-record\/","title":{"rendered":"Conservative Minister is urged to correct the Commons record"},"content":{"rendered":"
A treasury minister has been urged to correct the record in Parliament after claiming that people’s taxes are falling.<\/p>\n
Laura Trott, the new Chief Secretary to the Treasury, recently told MPs that ‘taxes for the average worker have gone down by \u00a31,000’ since 2010.<\/p>\n
Questioned about her statement, she did not provide proof to back up her claim.<\/p>\n
The House of Commons library has calculated that personal taxes will in fact have risen by about \u00a31,200 between 2010 to 2024.<\/p>\n
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Laura Trott (pictured) recently told MPs that ‘taxes for the average worker have gone down by \u00a31,000’ since 2010<\/p>\n
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Last month Chancellor Jeremy Hunt (pictured) announced cuts to National Insurance, which will come in in January<\/p>\n
Labour has written to Ms Trott demanding she correct the Parliamentary record.<\/p>\n
The letter by shadow Treasury minister James Murray says: ‘The tax burden in our country is set to increase by \u00a34,300 per household between 2019\/20 and 2028\/29.\u00a0<\/p>\n
‘Even limiting ourselves to personal taxes, the tax burden is still projected to rise by \u00a31,200 per household.’<\/p>\n
It repeats the request for Ms Trott to give an ‘urgent clarification’ of her comments, and, if she cannot do so, to ‘correct the record’ in the Commons.<\/p>\n
Last month Chancellor Jeremy Hunt announced cuts to National Insurance, which will come in in January.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Prime Minister told the Mail on Sunday the cuts are just the ‘start of a journey’, fuelling speculation that the Spring Budget will see cuts to income tax.<\/p>\n