Chancellor Rishi Sunak urged by senior Tories not to raise taxes in budget

It follows rumours that the chancellor is thinking of putting up corporation tax to start mending the hole in the public finances caused by the pandemic.

Tonight, we reveal an opinion poll that suggests many voters, including Tory supporters, are ready to accept some tax rises. So are Boris Johnson's Conservatives still the party of low tax and the small state?

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[paulhoskin]

Tax the tech companies and the rich to plug the gap

[TheSandersLifeDad]

You watch the working class will be the one to pay it!

[guff]

Somebody has to pay for that UTTERLY STUPID Eat Out To Help Out.

[physicalfitness]

Increase tax for the people who received furlough for 1 year.

[johnturner]

Abolish overseas aid and massively reduce welfare for those who refuse to work.

[jamessmith]

I fail to see the problem. No need for spending cuts or a tax rise. £40 billion is the debt right? You know that £13 billion we were sending to the EU each year? Well there you go, three years and we are straight. No?

[gambeeno]

Tax the rich and tech companies. If anything their wealth grew throughout this pandemic.

[marklapena]

David David: the man who refuses any form of complex thought, and, when encountering anything more complex than a baked potato, will dismiss it as 'rubbish'.

[rjwlfc]

Increasing taxes is not how you grow the not going to go well is it

[jibjub]

increase corp tax to be more in line with the rest of Europe, corps like Amazon and Facebook that have made a ton of profit during the pandemic can help fund the recovery

[curtiscarpenter]

We need greater fiscal capacity tax reform not raising taxes it vital for that, now big data is a cornerstone of that.🧠 tax incentives can finance infrastructure, tax refunds for lower income earners, tax breaks for higher income earners, tax cuts for those now earning less. Tax exporting to raise capital. Turning the UK into a tax haven I think would be a nice touch too.💰🤑💷💲💶💴💵💱

[jordanbarclay]

Count yous folk that got furlough for long enough lucky. Self employed/others have to pay higher. Knew this was going to happen. Someone explain to me how this is fair!

[jonathanbrady]

Poor corporations and rich... They have to pay more on their billions and millions of profit... Poor them, they just can't afford it 🙄😒

[stevep]

The rich must pay more tax. Especially those with more than one house or a business with houses they do not use for their employees. It is true raise the taxes now for the rich. No-matter what they say we pumped 10 times more into quantitative easing (giving the rich free money) than we did covid. Do not they lie about that.

[jackmc]

How about we abolish the Bank of England and return to a gold/silver standard? No, that's a bad idea, because it would lead to prosperity and freedom.

[mixmemesu]

35% tax to all government workers over 55K....

[uddinmakal]

This is why 10m people voted for Jeremy Corbyn in the 2019 election. The labour manifesto had suggested that we raise taxes for the 1% and increase government spending. Raising corporation tax and introducing an online tax will help pay off the debt and put the UK back on track. But I fear what will eventually happen is 99% of the public will end up paying for this crisis rather then the top 1%. The Tory government will make the British public pay for this.

[mingweicheese]

Either there is a legitimate role for the academic community to study, design and debate how socio-techno-political systems work, or we can just do polling.
The polling selection is not randomised. 'Sample of 1000' is not news worthy. Heck, the polling questions aren't not even valid (a technical question for the non-professionals) and the sample categorisation is not valid (binary party supporters). All this polling is not relevant and yet is at the centre of this reporting.

[stevep]

Of course he is. This is what Big Brother demanded - you freaky journalists wanted this - so you are obviously now very happy with yourselves.

[stevensum]

Polling rubbish. His one of the small group of people that eat from the big corporations profit.