Is the UK doomed to be a high tax country?
Coffee House Shots
The Spectator
4.4 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 29 September 2023
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Also on the podcast, there are reports today that Rishi Sunak will stop councils imposing 20 mph zones, is Rishi on the side of motorists?
Katy Balls speaks to James Heale and Fraser Nelson.
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| 0:22.0 | Hello and welcome to Coffee House shots |
| 0:28.0 | as expected to daily politics broadcast. |
| 0:30.4 | I'm Katie Bulls and I'm joined by Fraser Nelson and James Hill. |
| 0:33.9 | Tax levels in the UK are at the highest since records began 70 years ago |
| 0:38.0 | and are unlikely to come down. |
| 0:40.2 | The IFS has said, James tells the details of what has come out today. |
| 0:45.2 | Yeah sure, so the Institute for Physical Studies |
| 0:47.1 | has been very see influential. |
| 0:48.7 | I think tank and Westminster test today reached a big report |
| 0:51.6 | forecasting that taxes will amount to about 37% of national income |
| 0:54.7 | by the time of next year on election next year |
| 0:57.6 | and it says that the government will collect upwards of 100 billion |
| 1:01.0 | more in tax compared to pre-2019 levels |
| 1:03.3 | and so this is really a report looking at how the tax burden has increased |
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