Daniel Murray
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first heard Jul 2026
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As long as taxes go up by as much as that tax package cuts them, then it's considered kind of cost neutral.
The difficulty then is if they actually need to raise new money to be able to pay for a public sector pay deal, which would mean new taxes, which the government so far haven't been really willing to count on it.
And that's part of the problem in the politics of budgets, of tax raising in general and tax cuts.
And it's also part of the reason, I guess, why these public sector pay talks have stalled to date.
There's a sense that all of these measures in the round coming up to the budget have to be considered before a public sector pay deal is agreed.
So if income tax cuts are there on the table, they're going to affect public sector pay
workers as well.
And that should be considered as part of that package.
Unions, of course, aren't happy with that and have already gone to start balloting members.
So it's a particularly tricky year for the government with all of these things having to coalesce at the same time.
Yeah, I would say they would be.
So the last public sector pay deal, which was kind of an extension really of the previous framework for two and a half years, it came in at around 4% increases per year.
And the unions claim that, you know, they were even left worse off as a result of that because inflation outstripped it.
they'll be looking to at least match inflation this time around which on the basis of numerous projections for next year is between kind of four and five percent five percent being at the upper end so you would have to imagine that four percent is a minimum for them in next year nor mind over the longer term horizon
And again, it may be why there's kind of stalling tactics happening on the government side as well.
Like they're due to publish these new economic projections in two weeks at the summer economic statement.
And that perhaps will have some revised figures around inflation, which if they are lower, perhaps gives the government a little bit more leverage going into this into these talks.
Because it is very strange at this stage to have a deal that is lapsed, a public sector pay deal that is lapsed, and negotiations to have not even begun.
And not only that, but unions already balloting for strike action when negotiations haven't even begun.
So everything kind of points towards a ramping up of pressure in August and September, which, of course, is right before the budget.
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