South East Cambs Lib Dems say 'Make the Green Tax Switch'

12.51.14pm UTC (GMT +0000) Sat 28th Oct 2006

Liberal Democrats in East Cambridgeshire were out on the streets of Ely on Saturday, 21 October giving out leaflets supporting the national Lib Dem Green Tax Switch campaign - shifting taxes to help stop climate change.

Liberal Democrat Group Leader on the District Council, Coun Gareth Wilson said: "Liberal Democrats want to fundamentally change the way Britain is taxed. We need to switch to green taxes to switch off climate chaos.

"Governments currently tax good things, like work. We need to switch to taxing bad things instead, like pollution and carbon emissions.

"Green taxes can change our behaviour and safeguard our planet for our children and their children. This is about using taxes in a new way to change behaviour, not to raise money for the Government."

"We had a very positive reaction from local residents, many of whom are extremely concerned about the lack of action from the government to tackle climate change."

The Lib Dem plans would;

• Lift two million people on low income out of tax

• Cut the basic tax rate by 2p and take 1.3 million people out of the upper tax rate

• Tackle climate change by taxing pollution

• Cut the number of tax rates and reliefs for both individuals and businesses