A total of 64% of people would prefer taxes to stay how they are, or would support higher taxes, revealed research by the Fairness Foundation. This was split by 31% wanting taxes to be increased to increase public spending, and 33% wanting taxes to stay the same.

Interestingly, just 16% want taxes to be cut and there to be less funding for the public sector. The highest sub-sector of individuals in support of tax cuts came from 18–34-year-olds, with 29% of those asked in favour of lower taxes.

‘There is clearly not a public clamour for tax cuts at all costs,’ said the Fairness Foundation but, ‘higher support among young people for tax cuts may be linked to the fact that public spending has been protected in areas they use least, such as health and social care, and that they see fewer direct benefits of many public services’.

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