pressure grows on starmer to back taxe on rich to pay for social care -- insurance ni to fund better care the tuc leads the charge calling instead for an increase in capital gains taxe cgt to meet the costs of reform and higher wages for care workers -- with the tories taxe the wealthy to give care workers a pay rise done raid ordinary workerse pockets -- that the democrats in the us and the social democrats in germany appear increasingly ready to back wealth taxe andy burnham -- pay for reform senior party sources indicated it was too early to announce any taxe or funding plans -- funding social care and like the tuc calls for reform to paid for taxe on the better off -- pay for it is by taxeing wealth not work the government should looking at reforming taxe and reliefs on assets land pensions property and excessive earnings and profits before hitting younger -- a new report by the tuc – whose annual congress starmer will address on tuesday – says increasing capital gains taxe so the rates are similar to income taxe could raise £bn a year and pay for an increase in pay for all care workers to at least £ an hour -- “ite s time to raise taxe on wealth to fund social care properly and guarantee decent pay for all social care workers” treasury officials have rebuffed calls for wealth taxe arguing that they are expensive to collect and easier to avoid than income taxe a recent analysis of wealth taxe by the organisation for economic cooperation and development agreed that they were tricky to implement and often raised much less than hoped for but concluded the wealth gap was too large and governments should increase inheritance taxe in the first instance -- “capital gains are among the least heavily taxeed form of income anywhere in the taxe system they are taxeed less heavily than other forms of capital income and far less than income from work -- institute of public policy research ippr thinktank said “it is deeply unfair that under the current uk taxe system those who work for their living are taxeed more highly than those whose income is derived -- “ippr has for a long time advocated equalising capital gains taxe with income taxe and removing the allowances that enable the wealthy to pay less taxe on their income than working people” topics