Restore Britain Policy #3: Abolish all taxes which cost the nation more than they collect and kill indirectly
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| Taxation is responsible for 1 in 15 of all deaths in the UK |
I'm going to show you how most of the UK's multitude of taxes could be abolished overnight, with no general loss to the nation's finances. And if this policy is not pursued there will continue to be tens of thousands of excess deaths annually. Not to mention failed business and high unemployment.
For detail on the tax death toll globally see here: Government & Tax Death Toll
Here is our primary abolition policy. The following would all be immediately abolished:Out of the 25 current taxes, just 9 of them deliver 95% of the total revenue. So abolish the other 16, immediately and without delay. And all the huge state infrastructure that goes with them.
I hear you. This is an astonishing policy to drop in your lap. Yet is it untrue that it causes our citizens so much undue harm? Most taxation is harmful through deadweight losses, collection costs and policing the evasion. And the obscene negative killer effects this has on the lives of the nations own people.
For some perspective HS2 cost £100 billion. But these 16 useless taxes are only half of that cost. And our nuclear power program, which I support fully in principle appears to be yet another a giant money laundering scam at Hinkley and Sizewell. Another £60 billion mostly gong into the pockets of scroungers. There is no need for these tripling costs. They must be a systemic scam much like we're seeing rife within the NGO's and charity already. KILLERS!
I would say keep only the top 7 taxes with the following caveats:
- Income tax - raise the amount at which you start to pay it to £30K, the median wage, to get several million more into work right away. And to promote those already in work on low pay. To keep the lying professors happy at Oxford and Cambridge, raise the basic rate to say 22%.
- National insurance - this is effectively an income tax so should be subsumed into income tax to save more deadweight admin costs.
- VAT - could be scrapped immediately without harm to Britain. The boost to the economy would be immense and immediately raise the tax base through higher employment and more business success. It would also be key to setting Brexit in concrete at last.
- Corporation tax - this could be seen as a tax on monopoly and it remains to be seen if its a good tax. I expect on further study it is. But not for the small business which should be exempt. They are easy to identify - they spend no time in 'the lobby'.
- Council tax - is a tax on location value effectively. Scrap it and roll it up into an annual rent on the land value alone, exempting the building's capital value to help owners with improvements.
- Capital taxes - comprising stamp duty on real estate transactions & stocks and inheritance tax. Controversial. And if these are largely taxes on location value already, roll them up into business rates and council tax too. Obviously controversial, but no one complaining about IHT understands its cause and effect. And for housing sales the tax will come out of the selling price already anyway.
- Business rates - similarly to council tax this is a location value tax, do the same with it, perhaps making it and council tax the same tax. Valuations have already been done and are an easy function.
So the first duty of an honest government would be to target the biggest problem first - taxation. Because by tackling the biggest problem first, makes everything else that much easier to resolve.
You can verify all this data from the following government data. All gleaned from the states own numbers. Yet beware. The ONS is rather discredited since the pandemic - ONS Data tables for: Appendix D, Public sector current receipts, January 2026



