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Sir Keir Starmer has endorsed a new high-tax United Nations manifesto, paving the way for higher taxes on the wealthy, alcohol and fossil fuels. The Telegraph has the story.
Ministers have endorsed the global agreement, which calls for greater environmental levies and “gender-responsive taxation”.
The UK’s participation represents another break with Donald Trump, who pulled the US out of the deal over concerns about its provisions on tax.
It comes after Rachel Reeves warned that taxes may have to be increased again in the autumn to plug the hole left by Labour’s welfare rebellion.
The Tories warned that Sir Keir Starmer was deliberately making it harder for a future government to reverse Labour’s tax rises.
Known as the Sevilla Commitment, the UN agreement was thrashed out between 192 countries at a five-day summit in Seville, Spain, last week.
While ostensibly focused on drumming up more development cash for poorer states, the final text of the deal contains 42 references to taxation.
There are specific mentions of taxes on “high net-worth individuals”, as well as tobacco and alcohol, natural resources and pollution.
Britain also signed up to a series of declarations on the side, including one that promotes higher taxes on unhealthy products such as sugary drinks.
Gareth Davies, the Shadow Treasury Minister, accused Labour of “outsourcing tax policy to organisations that don’t reflect the priorities of the British people”.
“People want to see their taxes reduced and simplified, not increased and complicated to fund vacuous virtue signalling by global elites,” he said.
“This will only make it harder for a future government to reverse Labour’s tax rises.”
The commitments in the deal are not legally binding, meaning that they could not be used to force through the adoption of domestic tax policies.
But critics warned that signing up to the pact showed the Government was locking Britain into a permanent course of ever higher taxation.
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Keir Starmer signs UK up to new high-tax UN manifesto
The move comes as Chancellor Rachel Reeves refuses to rule out tax rises in the autumn budget.
Sir Keir Starmer has signed Britain up to a new United Nations agreement which will include higher taxes on the wealthy. The move could risk frustrating the White House, with Donald Trump pulling the US out of the pact in June.
The Sevilla Agreement was adopted by all of the UN members this week, except for the US, and aims to tackle the growing gap between rich and poor nations and try to drum up the trillions of pounds needed to close it. The pact also paves the way for greater taxes on alcohol, tobacco and fossil fuels. The Conservatives have raised concerns over the deal, with Shadow Treasury Minister Gareth Davies accusing the Government of “outsourcing tax policy to organisations that don’t reflect the priorities of the British people”.
He told The Telegraph: “People want to see their taxes reduced and simplified, not increased and complicated to fund vacuous virtue signalling by global elites.
“This will only make it harder for a future government to reverse Labour’s tax rises.”
The newspaper reports that the UK has also signed up to a number of declarations on the side, one of which promotes taxes on unhealthy products like sugary drinks.
Senior UN official Marcos Neto said the agreement is “about aligning public and private capital flows towards” sustainable development goals, the Paris Agreement and other international commitments.
He added it “outlines what to do with every kind of money – national, international, public, and private”.
One part of the agreement promotes “broadening of the tax base”, including getting stricter on the “informal sector” which includes cash-in-hand payments, The Telegraph reports.
It also states participating nations will “promote gender-responsive budgeting”, plus “advance discussion on gender-responsive taxation”.
Critics are said to be concerned that the move shows the Government is preparing to permanently put the UK under increased taxes.
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Starmer TRASHING the UK!
Talk about joined up policy – Starmer’s government trashes the economy to force more taxation on us – and then signs up to an international agreement that – demands higher taxes.
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