Brown calls for gambling tax reform to tackle child poverty

ONLINE casinos and slot machines should be taxed more to raise some of the money needed to cover the cost of lifting children out of poverty, a new report, backed by a former prime minister, says.

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Reforms to gambling taxes could generate the £3.2 billion needed to scrap the two-child limit and benefit cap, the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) said. The think tank said axing the policies could lift half a million children out of poverty and “reverse years of rising hardship for low-income families”.