HC Deb 04 April 1985 vol 76 c704W
Mr. Hill

asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will make it is his policy to reduce personal and corporate taxes in favour of indirect taxes.

Mr. Moore

It is our policy to reduce overall burden taxation, resources permitting. We are also concerned with the balance of taxation. In both the 1984 and 1985 Budgets my right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer proposed measures which shifted some of the burden of personal taxation from earnings to spending.