The government must use progressive taxation to deliver social justice through more generous services for children and older people, an influential think-tank says today, writes Mithran Samuel.
In Social Justice: Building a Fairer Britain, the Institute for Public Policy Research calls for a 50 per cent top rate of tax to fund universal early years services, more generous tax credits for families and free personal care.
The tax would apply to earnings over £100,000.
IPPR director Nick Pearce said: “[Britain] still suffers divisions by social class and levels of poverty and inequality that rank among the highest in Europe. Achieving social justice in Britain will mean calling on the public to give their support and show a willingness to pay for it.”
More information is available from www.ippr.org.
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