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What are the party manifestos promising on tax at this election, and how would their proposals impact women?
It’s the main way we pay for public expenditure, the public services and social security that we all need.
Because women look after others more than men, often at the expense of their own incomes, they use public services more and more of their income comes from social security.
Consequently, the overall level of taxation is a gender issue.
Since 2010 there have been a series of cuts to income tax, corporation tax and fuel duty that will cost the country £41 billion a year by 2020. The main beneficiaries of these tax cuts have been men. At the same time women have been hit hardest by cuts to public services and benefits.
So what are the party manifestos promising on tax at this election, and how would their proposals impact on women?
This report examines the coalition government’s main changes in indirect taxes from a gender perspective.
Ahead of the 2017 Spring Budget, the UK WBG has written a briefing on the impact of cuts to social security benefits on women since 2010.
The UK Women’s Budget Group has responded to the Office for Tax Simplification consultation on Capital Gains Tax Review.
New modelling by the WBG examines the impact of tax and benefit changes since 2010 on men and women’s incomes