Married couples need better tax help, says Care

THE PRIME MINISTER has been urged to help families penalised by tax burdens, now that he is ‘free of the shackles of coalition.’

The CEO of Care, the evangelical social policy charity, has called for action in next week’s Budget to support families that are being penalised by the tax system.

Nola Leach, pictured, has spoken out for stayat-home parents, where one earner married couples are bearing a bigger tax burden than in the rest of Europe.

“Given that marriage is by every benchmark the most stable form of relationship and that family breakdown – primarily from much less stable cohabiting relationships – costs £46 billion per annum, it does not make sense that we should make the option of marrying fiscally less accessible in this country,” she said.

And speaking ahead of the 8 July emergency budget, Archbishop Justin Welby urged against ‘selfish capitalism’.

In a conversation with Arthur C Brooke, the president of the American Enterprise Institute, at the 2015 Conference on Inclusive Capitalism in London, Archbishop Welby told business and finance leaders that the financial sector should be ‘imbued with morality’.

Reflecting on the theme of inclusivity, Archbishop Welby spoke about the poor area where he was first ordained.

“We need a capitalist system that is not separate.

“That’s the point of the inclusivity… being alongside, being as Christ was in his incarnation, being in the middle of it all – feeling it in your guts as well as in your head and your moral system,” he said.

Find places of poverty, in the poorest part of the world, which make you ‘uncomfortable’, he told the corporate community.