Responding to the new Labour Finance Minister in Wales, Mark Drakeford saying that ministers will consider raising income tax next year, Peter Fox MS, Welsh Conservative Shadow Minister for Finance and Local Government said:
“Labour must rule out tax rises. An income tax increase would be a punitive measure that will hit people in their pockets.
“Coupled with Labour’s scrapping of Winter Fuel Payments for most pensioners, a tax hike will compound the misery for people the length and breadth of Wales.
“At a time when Labour is embarking on pet projects like their Basic Income pilot or their plans to create 36 more politicians, the people of Wales will rightly see higher taxes as the wrong priority.”
