Cutting Taxes for 34,224 in Tamworth Will Help Strivers

New research has revealed that Conservatives in Government are cutting taxes for 34,224 people in Tamworth constituency in April next year and the Government will lift 1,711 local households out of tax altogether.

The Government is reforming Labour’s ‘something for nothing’ welfare culture, by capping the amount one household can get in benefits and capping the amount benefits are increased next year.  Labour opposes these reforms.

Additionally, as a result of the Chancellor’s Autumn Statement a local person earning £10,000 each year is now about £500 a year better off in income tax and national insurance than they were in 2010.  Three years ago, a person would pay £1160 in tax and national insurance.  That figure has been slashed to £670.  By 2014, the tax liability will be just £360.  Similar improvements have been made to people on other low incomes in excess of £20,000.

Tamworth MP Christopher Pincher commented, “In Tamworth, if you want to work hard and get on, the Conservatives are on your side.  Your taxes will be cut so you keep more of the money you have earned.  And we are capping the increase in benefits so that benefit increases do not outstrip increases in earnings as they have done since 2008.

“Labour wants benefits to go up more than the earnings of people in work.  That just is not fair.  We will not let Ed Miliband and Ed Balls bring back Brown’s something for nothing culture.  Instead we will reward work and help people out of work get the skills and the support they need to get back into a job.”