​​​Welcome to the Fair Tax Now campaign!

This campaign highlights how our national and global tax systems are unfair.
It also suggests how they could be redesigned to achieve a fairer, more just, outcome for all.
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The stories below are just some of the examples that form part of our campaign.

Jo's Story

Stan's Story

Andy's Story

Zambia

We recently visited Durham to share some tax truths with the British public, the videos below show how they responded. 

What do we want?

Our tax system is unfair only because it has been designed that way.
We have an opportunity to call for a different model in which everyone pays their fair share, and so contributes to the common good of all.

1. A change of hearts and minds
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A change in the public story about tax so that we champion fair taxation in the same way we champion climate justice. As Dr Rowan Williams said, 'A society’s levels of progressive and redistributive taxation should be a matter of pride not anxiety.'

More details can be found in our
Fair Tax Now report

OUR FAIR TAX NOW REPORT

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2. Policy proposals
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• Tax income equally – combine income tax, National Insurance and capital gains tax into a single progressive tax with a single allowance.
• Reform council tax – replace it either with a proportionate property tax or a land value tax.
• Tax wealth effectively – a net wealth tax could exclude pensions and people's main homes, but tax wealth above a threshold of £1 million.
• Stop the dodging – tighten the legislation to close the loopholes and in particular properly resource HMRC and Companies House so they are able to enforce those rules.
• Fairer global tax rules - prioritise the needs of lower income countries in the global tax negotiations that are taking place.

OUR REPORT - FAIR TAX NOW

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Our campaign report - Fair Tax Now - provides more details on all of the stories above, linking to the research evidence that underpins them and setting them in their wider economic and social context.