article_snippet: Voters called on Ed Balls to come clean about Labour’s plans for higher taxes yesterday.
article_snippet: Mr Balls – who will today rule out a rise in VAT – was accused of
article_snippet: Voters called on Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls to come clean about Labour’s plans for higher taxes .
article_snippet: Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls will attempt to get on to the front foot today by ruling out a rise in VAT if Labour seize power in
article_snippet: In a speech in Birmingham today, Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls will make a ‘clear pledge’ that Labour will not raise VAT from Labour current level of 20 per cent.
article_snippet: Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls will say: ‘We will not put up VAT.
article_snippet: We will not raise VAT because it’s the tax that hits everyone.
article_snippet: But Labour last night refused to rule out raising other major taxes, such as income tax and national insurance.
article_snippet: Tory sources said that, with Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls apparently committed to a further £30 billion of deficit reduction, further tax rises under Labour were inevitable.
article_snippet: Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls is confirming Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls real plan
article_snippet: – big hikes in the jobs tax or tax on hard work.
article_snippet: Labour have already announced a raft of tax rises, but all but one of these would fund these spending pledges.
article_snippet: Ed Miliband and Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls have repeatedly said Ed Miliband and Ed Balls will raise taxes.
article_snippet: It is time that Ed Miliband and Ed Balls came clean with the British public about which taxes Ed Miliband and Ed Balls will raise – income tax or national insurance?’ Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls refused to apologise for leaving Britain with one of the biggest budget deficits in the developed world when it left office.
article_snippet: And my opponent George Osborne said that raising the top rate of tax from 45p to 50p would raise £3 billion, despite analysis by the Treasury and HMRC which suggests it would raise almost nothing.
highlights_snippet: Mr Balls, who will today rule out a rise in VAT, was accused of 'tinkering'
  He had suggested Britain’s budget deficit could be filled by taxes on rich .
  