UKIP Manifesto 2019

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For Brexit and Beyond 22. Environment We should separate the dogma of anthropogenic (man-made) climate change from conservation - care for and protection of the environment. There are environmental emergencies – not least deforestation and marine plastic pollution - but there is no climate emergency. • Post-Brexit, UKIP would re-establish the successful local drainage supervisory boards run by those most affected by flooding. Farmers and riverside landowners must be allowed to undertake the necessary work on their land to prevent flooding without penalties. • The Green Belt must be protected in order to preserve our quality of life. The most significant threat to the Green Belt, and the UK environment in general, especially in England, is unsustainable population growth, which is predominantly fuelled by uncontrolled mass immigration. • UKIP seeks to develop policies that address excessive packaging and the use of plastics where they are detrimental to the environment. • Household and business waste should be dealt with in the UK, and not shipped abroad to poor countries like Indonesia that cannot deal with it properly. As landfill sites approach capacity, we must increase recycling rates and incineration capacity. • After leaving the EU, we will uphold high environmental standards that protect our air quality, waterways, woodlands, farmland and other habitats. • UKIP will protect our woodlands and end the sale and privatisation of woodland managed by The Forestry Commission and National Parks. 28
23. Taxation For Brexit and Beyond UKIP believes in allowing people to keep as much of their own income and wealth as possible to spend according to their own needs and priorities. • UKIP will aim to raise the personal Income Tax allowance from £12,500 to £15,000 over the next Parliamentary term. This will help those on low earnings. • Our long-term aim is to structure Income Tax into 2 bands of 20% and 40% with higher thresholds. We will take steps towards this when it is feasible. • UKIP will hold a full review of National Insurance to determine how it can best serve the needs of funding healthcare, welfare, pensions and social care. • UKIP will not raise Corporation Tax above 19% and will seek to lower it when possible. • UKIP will abolish Inheritance Tax (currently £5.2bn per annum).(8) Assets purchased out of taxed income should not be taxed again when their owners die. UKIP will scrap this ‘death tax’. It hits the middle classes hardest, those who have worked to provide for their dependants because the wealthiest can often manage to avoid paying it. • UKIP will abolish Stamp Duty for UK citizens’ primary residences. Stamp duty will continue to be paid by foreign nationals, and UK citizens’ purchasing second homes and additional properties and should be simplified into a single-rate. • We will ensure that all businesses and multi-national corporations pay their fair share of tax to HM Treasury. Post-Brexit, these companies will not be able to take advantage of EU tax avoidance schemes. • Once outside the EU, the UK will have control over VAT. UKIP will take the opportunity to cut VAT rates to zero on certain goods, such as domestic fuel, sanitary products, and repairs to commercial, residential buildings and historic and listed buildings. • Council tax, as it currently stands, is outdated and needs to undergo a full and thorough review. • We will reduce business rates for high street shops, restaurants & pubs, and childcare centres to zero and replace it with an online sales tax on businesses with an online annual turnover greater than £500,000. • UK tax regulations are vastly over-complicated and convoluted, consisting of over 17,000 pages. In contrast, Hong Kong’s tax regulations take up only 300 pages. UKIP will simplify the UK tax system into a simpler, shorter document that is clear and easily understandable. 29
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