Resolution Foundation Suggests Abandoning Tax Credit Cuts

George Osborne should abandon his planned cuts to tax credits and look for the £4.4bn in revenue elsewhere, according to the Resolution Foundation in an article in the Guardian this morning.

The Resolution thinktank was one of the first to warn of the political damage cuts that tax credits could inflict on the chancellor if he pressed ahead with the timetable set out in the summer budget.

It has been looking for an alternative way for the cuts to proceed in order to mitigate the effects and has concluded that there is no effective way of simply tweaking the cuts. It instead proposes changes to taxation thresholds and pensions in an attempt to find the £4.4bn.

By now the Conservatives ought to be getting a very clear message that the public including their own MP’s do not support the cutting of Tax Credits and the harm it will bring to those working. That just some tinkering in the autumn statement, will not be enough.