Work and pensions secretary Mel Stride has criticised Labour's tax plans, insisting that a Labour government would see a significant tax hike for working people.
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00:00Well basically we don't think there should be a taxes applied to people's
00:04homes so that means that when it comes to council tax we don't think there
00:07should be a revaluation in the next Parliament which will see inevitably a
00:10number of losers and people seeing council tax going up and that's what
00:14Labour are doing in Wales. We don't think there should be any abolition of the
00:19primary residence relief so that means you don't pay capital gains tax if you'll
00:23sell your primary home and we have also pledged that we won't be changing the
00:29rates of the stamp duty that's applied when a property is sold. Now the
00:34relevance of doing that is it's a challenge to Labour to tell us whether
00:37they will do the same and what they have said is that they at the moment are not
00:42saying that they will rule that out and this is where this thirty eight and a
00:45half billion pound black hole comes in because they're going to have to raise
00:48taxes in order to fill that.