US EditionGordon Brown pressures Starmer to drop two-child benefit cap
UNITED KINGDOM, AUG 6 – Former Prime Minister Gordon Brown supports a £3.2 billion tax hike on gambling profits to scrap child benefit limits and lift 500,000 UK children out of poverty, says IPPR.
- Former Prime Minister Gordon Brown called on the UK government to end the two-child benefit cap and raise taxes on online gambling to reduce child poverty.
- Brown and the IPPR believe that increasing gambling taxes could provide the £3.2 billion required to remove the two-child limit, which currently impacts 1.6 million children.
- The gambling industry benefits from VAT exemptions and offshore operations, while the Betting and Gaming Council rejects tax hikes as economically reckless and claims they risk pushing gamblers to the black market.
- Brown described the IPPR report as an important initial move in the fight against increasing child poverty, while the government plans to introduce a strategy to address child poverty this autumn.
- If implemented, these measures have the potential to help approximately 500,000 children escape poverty and halt the increasing difficulties faced by disadvantaged families, though Treasury officials and industry representatives continue to debate their economic and societal effects.
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The gambling industry should pay a ‘fairer share,’ former PM Gordon Brown said
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