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Before assuming that everyone will be worse off, remember that the £100bn or so revenue from a $100 carbon price would be about enough to enable a cut in the basic rate of VAT from 20% to the EU legal minimum of 15%.
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Corbyn said he would not increase the basic rate of income tax or VAT, and both said they would increase the top rate to 50p and raise corporation tax.
Meanwhile, £2bn could be found by either increasing the basic rate of income tax by 0.25%, VAT by 0.5% or reducing pension tax relief.
The think tank analysis said "even under the most optimistic scenario" bringing national debt down would require something like a 6% reduction in total public spending, a rise of 9% on the basic rate of income tax or a VAT rate of 28%.
George Osborne has said the British government would lose £36bn in net tax receipts, equivalent to 8p on the basic rate of income tax or 7p on VAT, if the UK leaves the EU and negotiates a bilateral trade agreement with the bloc.
To recoup that would require an 8p rise on the basic rate of income tax or a 7p rise in VAT.
By way of illustration, the IFS said that closing the gap could be achieved by increasing the basic rate of income tax in Scotland to 29 per cent, increasing VAT to 28 per cent, or cutting public spending by 8 per cent.
The basic rate of income tax should be cut by 2% along with a 5% cut in VAT alongside a major boost spending on the infrastructure, primarily on housebuilding.
He has ruled out other changes to the basic rate of income tax and any rise in VAT. 3) A commitment to an internationally-agreed levy on banks.
The standard rate of VAT is 20percentnt.
That would raise as much as a 3-percentage-point rise in the basic and higher rates of tax, a similar rise in employee and self-employment national insurance rates, or a 3.5-percentage-point rise in the standard rate of VAT, according to the green budget produced by the independent and highly respected Institute for Fiscal Studies.
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