Oral Question·Treasury
“Whether he has made an assessment with Cabinet colleagues of the potential merits of raising the cap on council tax increases.”
Tabled: 25 October 2023Answered: 31 October 2023
Asked by
Mark Garnier
Conservative — Wyre Forest
Answering Minister
the Chancellor of the Exchequer
Answer from Hansard
The Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury (Dan Tomlinson)
The Chancellor was clear at the Budget that we are taking the fair and necessary decisions on tax to do all we can to ensure that the contribution of working people is kept as low as possible. We have reduced the gap between taxes on income from assets and on income from work, stopped the unfairness that meant people could pay less council tax for a £10 million property than for a typical terraced house in much of England, and done much more.