News Value Mothers At Home
Let’s recognise Choice for all Mummies.
Mothers At Home Matter’s response to the highly publicised March of the Mummies was published in the Daily Mail today.
We need to recognise there is a cost to caring for children at home. Families used to be supported by allowances in taxation. When a parent wants to stay home to care, they give up one income. The tax system turns against them as a household may pay twice as much tax as households on the same income where both parents work. They also lose their child benefit earlier.
We need fair family taxation and a level playing field so that parents have a real choice.
A March for all Mummies? (Source: Pregnant Then Screwed)
MAHM would like to see:
An economic level playing field for parents who stay at home with the option of being taxed as a household with a transferable allowance for couples or an additional person’s allowance for single parents
Fair taxation for those who stay home and those who work
Childcare subsidies to follow the child, with parents able to choose whether they use it to stay home, or give it to a grandparent, childminder or external setting for care
Child benefit to be distributed fairly
All mothers to be eligible for their state pension regardless of whether they sign up to the Child Benefit or not
Further action?
Please consider reaching out to your local MP about this issue, or writing your own letter to a newspaper to raise the profile of the need for fairer family taxation.
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