The Green Tax switch

3.04.19pm BST (GMT +0100) Thu 8th Jun 2006

Ming Campbell MP with Jeremy Browne MP at a recycling centre

Liberal Democrat leader Menzies Campbell MP has unveiled plans to protect and improve our environment with a major "green tax switch".

The party wants to cut income tax for everyone, and take millions of the least well off out of income tax altogether, whilst instead taxing pollution more heavily.

"We are the only major party which takes the environment seriously and that does mean that environmental taxes will rise, but we will also cut income tax by 2p in the pound and take around three million people out of income tax completely. This will be good news not just for our environment but for everyone who will benefit from income tax cuts," said Ming Campbell.

Cllr Anne Purse. Liberal Democrat Environment spokesperson on Oxfordshire County Council, said, "This is a really exciting new initiative that will see a shift away from taxing economic activity to taxing pollution."

You can read Ming's speech in full and watch a video interview with him at http://www.libdems.org.uk/menzies-campbell-speech.html

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