Social care tax rise is austerity by another name – economist Q&A

By Alex de Ruyter, Professor of Economics and Director of the Centre for Brexit Studies, Birmingham City University

Boris Johnson has unveiled an additional 1.25% levy on national insurance paid by wage earners and employers, which will raise £14 billion a year to help pay for the NHS and reforms to social care. Coming on the back of rises to income tax and corporation tax that were announced in the budget…

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