“Britain can’t afford another sticking-plaster Budget — it’s time to tax extreme wealth to rebuild opportunity”

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London 10 November 2025 - As rumours swirl about the contents of the upcoming UK Budget, due to be announced on 26 November, Taxpayers Against Poverty (TAP) warns that early speculation points to half-hearted measures — precisely the kind of sticking-plaster politics Britain can no longer afford.

Despite a new government promising change, the expected tweaks and token gestures will not touch the structural causes of poverty, inequality, and high living costs. TAP calls instead for bold, systemic reform: a fair tax system that targets extreme wealth, not working families, and reinvests the proceeds into the public services that form the backbone of a fair society.

“If the government wants to make a real difference to people’s lives, it must stop treating the symptoms of inequality and start tackling its causes,” said Tom Burgess, CEO Taxpayers Against Poverty.“Half measures won’t repair a broken system. Britain needs the courage to tax vast unearned wealth and use it to rebuild opportunity — through education, health, social care, and infrastructure that serve everyone, not just the privileged few.”

TAP’s analysis, drawn from its forthcoming Nicolson Report: The Poverty Scandal, shows that the cost of poverty already runs into hundreds of billions each year — through lost productivity, higher NHS demand, and the social toll of inequality. Yet the real price is human: millions struggling to afford food, rent, or heating, while a tiny minority accumulate fortunes that grow untaxed.

TAP urges the Chancellor and Cabinet to reject short-term fixes and instead design a Budget grounded in fairness, long-term vision, and compassion. By addressing the root causes of inequality through wealth taxation and public investment, the government can begin to reduce the cost of living, lift families out of hardship, and restore trust in politics.

“A truly compassionate government doesn’t tinker — it transforms,” Burgess added. “This Budget must be the moment Britain chooses a fairer path.”

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About Taxpayers Against PovertyTaxpayers against Poverty is a UK-based independent advocacy group dedicated to tackling poverty, inequality, and social injustice by promoting economic policies that have a direct effect on reducing poverty and the unnecessary financial hardship. TAP seeks to influence national and local policy with well-researched and robust evidence of hardship and promote practical policy proposals using a direct approach to decision makers and other influencers.

TAP was founded by the late Rev Paul Nicolson and is led by Tom Burgess, author of From Here to Prosperity, a new political agenda for a sustainable economy and greater social justice, which proposes taxing wealth more and income less. TAP’s sister organisation and partner is Compassion in Politics which seeks to bring more honesty, respect and compassion into political life

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Tom Burgess, CEO, Taxpayers Against Poverty  taxpayersagainstpoverty@gmail.com www.taxpayersagainstpoverty.org.uk  www.realagenda.org

Partner & sister organisation: www.compassioninpolitics.com