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Plymouth’s scrooge Tories refuse to pass on VAT cut to public

By Plymouth Labour ⋅ January 6, 2009 ⋅ Print this article Print this article    Comment on this article Post a comment

Conservative Councillors in Plymouth are not passing on the 2.5% VAT cut across a range of popular services the Labour Party revealed today.

Plymouth City Council has stated that car parking, library books and visits to leisure centres won’t see any of the cut, which is worth hundreds of thousands of pounds to local residents. Neither will any of the shoppers in the council’s retail outlets.

“The Tories the Scrooge of Christmas,” said Labour Group Leader Tudor Evans. “They say it’s not worth passing on the cut to services users. It’s daylight robbery. The 2.5% VAT cut on parking alone comes to £208,000 in a full year.”

“Instead of Scrooge, perhaps it should be brought up-to-date. The Cabinet member for Finance is the Grinch who stole the VAT at Christmas.”

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