Beard Liberation Front
25th October
Contact Keith Flett 07803 167266
BUDGET: CAMPAIGNERS CALL FOR A LUXURY TAX ON SHAVING
The Beard Liberation Front, the informal network of beard wearers, has called on Chancellor Rachel Reeves to take the chance to be innovative in the Budget and announce a luxury tax on shaving.
The campaigners say that while there has been a significant growth in beards, in reality they still represent a minority in the country compared to the clean shaven.
The BLF insists that shaving is environmentally unfriendly and a Shaving Tax would do a good deal to address carbon reduction targets by reducing use of electric shavers and power used to make shaving products.
Those currently employed in the shaving industry can easily be re-deployed into the beard care area of the economy, a growing sector.
A Shaving Tax could be levied at £100 a year for all those who did not have a beard at the beginning of the financial year- April 1st– without good reason. It would hit popular targets such as clean-shaven bankers in the City who would have to grow a beard or pay up.
BLF Organiser Keith Flett said, Rachel Reeves can boost her popularity and the Exchequer’s finances considerably by implementing an innovative Shaving Tax.
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