TAXATION AND THE POOR

That this House notes with regret the serious effects on the poorest in Britain's communities of the recent Finance Bill; further notes in particular the failure fully to reverse the reductions in income caused by the removal of the 10 pence tax band, the higher taxation on bingo when compared with casinos, and the increase in beer duty and its consequent effect on pubs; and calls on the Government to make provision to redress this bias against the poor by respective compensatory increases in the taxation of the better off, of casinos and of alcopops.