division_name: Budget Resolutions - Income Tax (Charge)
motion: <p class="indent" pid="a1085.1/3" pwmotiontext="yes">That income tax is charged for the tax year 2019-20.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a1085.1/4" pwmotiontext="yes">And it is declared that it is expedient in the public interest that this Resolution should have statutory effect under the provisions of the Provisional Collection of Taxes Act 1968.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a1096.3/4" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;We are not making cuts to local authorities. What we have done is give them more revenue raising powers so that decisions can be taken locally.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a1096.3/6" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;the most deprived authorities, including Barking &amp; Dagenham, Birmingham and Salford, made an average cut to spending per person of 32%, compared to 17% in the least deprived areas, including Warwickshire, Wiltshire and Dorset.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a1096.3/11" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;the lives of vulnerable people could be at risk.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a1099.0/2" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;immediate and profound economic shock&#8221;?</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a1101.1/2" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;a tool for tackling poverty&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a1101.4/7" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;Weak investment post Brexit is forecast to boost receipts in the short run because it is expected that firms will make less use of tax-deductible capital allowances.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a1101.4/9" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;Companies can offset some of their investments against their profits to reduce their tax bill. The idea is to give them a tax incentive to make more investment. For this reason the OBR has a rule of thumb that a 1 per cent increase in business investment leads to &#163;50m less in tax receipts&#8230;But business investment fell by 2 per cent in 2016, according to the ONS. This was good news for the public finances, which received more in corporation tax revenue, despite being bad news for the overall economy.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a1107.1/5" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;The gains are enormous. Investments in social housing could generate returns up to &#163;320bn over 50 years, helping countless families along the way by creating local jobs and building homes people need and can afford.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a1112.0/6" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;Year on year reductions in funding, coupled with rising staff costs, are meaning that the school is moving&#8230; to submitting a deficit budget this financial year; followed by increasing six figure deficits in future years.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a1114.0/7" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;saved the average car driver &#163;850 and the average van driver over &#163;2,100.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a1117.0/3" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;Taken together they turn the &#163;3.5 billion surplus&#8230;forecast for 2023-24 into a &#163;19.8 billion deficit.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a1117.0/5" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;Had there been no fiscal loosening in the Budget, the objective would have been achieved in 2023-24.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a1119.2/6" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;When it comes to taxes, we&#8217;ll prioritise not the wealthy, but you.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a1122.0/3" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;The cuts to business rates from Monday&#8217;s Budget are fantastic news for local family-run businesses like mine. Keeping local shops open can only serve our local communities.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a1123.1/3" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;I&#8217;m honest with people: I&#8217;m a Marxist&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a1123.1/5" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;I&#8217;ve been waiting for this for a generation&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a1123.1/7" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;Marxism is about the freedom of spirit&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a1124.0/3" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;The idea that the funding formulas do not take account of deprivation or the differing ability of areas to raise council tax is totally erroneous.&#8221;&#8212;[Official Report, <phrase class="date" code="2018-10-30">30 October</phrase> 2018; Vol. 648, c. 332WH.]</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a1124.2/3" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;significant inequalities in cuts to council services across the country, with deprived areas in the north of England and London seeing the biggest drops in local authority spending since 2010.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a1124.2/5" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;These local authorities tend to be more reliant on central government, with lower property values and fewer additional funding sources, as well as less ability to generate revenue through taxes.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a1132.0/2" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;If I were a prison governor, a local authority chief executive or a headteacher I would struggle to find much to celebrate. I would be preparing for more difficult years ahead.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a1142.0/3" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;In one of the richest countries in the world, it is a scandal that people go to bed hungry and families have to choose between eating and heating.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a1146.1/2" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;The Chancellor will set out the government&#8217;s plans for the economy and public finances in detail at Budget.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a1154.0/2" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;an economy working for everyone.&#8221;&#8212;[Official Report, <phrase class="date" code="2018-10-29">29 October</phrase> 2018; Vol. 648, c. 654.]</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a1154.1/2" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;the era of austerity is&#8230;coming to an end.&#8221;&#8212;[Official Report, <phrase class="date" code="2018-10-29">29 October</phrase> 2018; Vol. 648, c. 653.]</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a1158.0/5" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;Parliament works on our behalf to try to make sure that Government decisions are&#8230;open and transparent&#8221;&#8212;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a1158.0/7" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;by questioning ministers and requesting information&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a1158.0/9" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;workable and efficient&#8221;&#8212;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a1158.0/11" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;by examining new proposals closely and suggesting improvements&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a1158.0/15" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;the strivers, the grafters and the carers&#8221;&#8212;[Official Report, <phrase class="date" code="2018-10-29">29 October</phrase> 2018; Vol. 648, c. 653.]</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a1160.2/4" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;will put more money in people&#8217;s pockets&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="italic" pid="a1162.6/4" pwmotiontext="yes">The House divided:</p>
  
  <p pid="a1162.6/5" pwmotiontext="yes">Ayes 246, Noes 313.</p>