UCU: Fighting tax injustice for those on low incomes

Motion

Motion text: Congress notes in 2021 the Government froze personal income tax thresholds which hitherto, had typically been increase by CPI each year. The freeze has now been extended until 2028. This policy stands in direct contradiction to Conservative 2019 election manifesto pledges.
Congress notes that, as a consequence, increasing numbers of low-paid workers, disabled workers and pensioners have been drawn into the tax net. This adversely affects part-time and hourly-paid staff in post-sixteen education and pensioners who have retired from this field, for example. Those struggling on low incomes in a cost-of-living crisis have been further impoverished.
Congress instructs the NEC to work with the National Pensioners Convention and DDPOs (Deaf and Disabled Persons Organisaitons) to campaign for the reversal of this damaging policy and, further, to include this objective in UCU’s lobbying strategy ahead of the forthcoming general election.