These Things Take Time

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

59% : And on the direction of travel: Burnham tells Laura K he is minded to change the nature of welfare support and make "some of the support conditional upon people taking opportunities that are presented in front of them ...
57% : Options are said to include a land value tax or an annual charge on a home's current value.
56% : Burnham has in the past supported a flat 10 percent care "levy.
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54% : The Sunday Times' Lara Spirit reported he will hand mayors a share of income tax revenue to spend on their combined authorities.
52% : He reveals after combing through Whitehall annual accounts that absence rates in major government departments jumped by almost a fifth last year, with a 19 percent increase in sickness rates in the DWP, funnily enough ... finds old comments from Andy Burnham when he was mayor signaling that he favors a workplace parking levy, a scheme drawn up by cash-strapped councils which sees business charged per parking space they provide to staff ... and reveals (with the Express) a TaxPayers Alliance report claiming that 574 NHS bosses are paid more than the prime minister.
48% : In his BBC interview, Burnham does suggest Rachel Reeves was right to start looking at council tax reform -- but he offers no details on his own plans, and says he will "honour the manifesto upon which Labour was elected."
48% : SHORT STAFFED: Reform UK's "migrant worker surcharge" -- its plan to make employers pay an annual levy for overseas staff -- would harm the NHS and social care providers, lead to a shortage of school teachers and push some universities into bankruptcy, according to the Guardian.
47% : The former Housing Secretary Steve Reed had already confirmed officials were looking at reform options before his sacking, but the i Paper reckons Burnham was handed and is considering a policy document outlining council tax reform ... and that Treasury officials were looking at overhauling property taxes as he came in.
47% : " Of course: Expect so, so many questions over the coming weeks about how the government plans to find billions more for defense spending, reform social care and do all the other things it wants to do without breaking the manifesto triple lock on tax. Thursday night, on Channel 5?
46% : Going Rotter-dam busters: Either way, it seems the government is considering some Dutch courage on welfare (as the old government was too, remember).
46% : Questions abound ... including how the shares of tax will be calculated ... whether there will be any measures to ensure poorer regions don't end up punished by the policy ... and whether legislation will be needed for the change.
45% : In his first interview as chancellor, John Healey signaled to the Sun's Kate Ferguson that billions more will be found for defense spending -- though he said it was too early to talk about timescales for reaching 3 percent of GDP.
44% : Mayors will not be handed new tax-raising powers, the paper reported.
43% : Wes Streeting was saying much the same on his Sunday media round ... though what has been read as a very early threat of resignation from Streeting over defense spending splashes the Mail.
41% : The i Paper: Council tax and stamp duty to be scrapped under Burnham plans.
40% : A cynic would point out that, given mooted changes to stamp duty tend to have big short-term impacts on the property market, you'd have to deny you were reforming the tax until you'd done it.
39% : Not on the grid: The i Paper's Eleanor Langford released a bedtime-tea-dropper of a tale last night -- reporting that Burnham is "actively looking to scrap council tax and stamp duty."
33% : TODAY'S FRONT PAGES POLITICO UK: City gears up for a fight on bank tax under Burnham.
26% : Kemi Badenoch has written to the PM urging him not to increase taxes to fund any reform to care and to do it through cuts instead, while Reform's Robert Jenrick was sounding the "no death tax" klaxon in the pages of the Sunday Telegraph.

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