UK income tax too high and wages too low
Hmmm where can I begin... Oh I know, over 60% income tax every going to the government month! Okay, I exaggerate a bit here but that’s exactly what it feels like.
Thanks to the choices that this government and the previous ones have made, Britain has turned into the land of high income tax and is just not such a nice place to live anymore. And I for one, am not happy with this situation or for that matter the way in which my taxes are used.
I probably earn a fair amount more than you’re average unskilled or semi-skilled labourer, but I’ve worked hard to get a better job; studied hard and worked long hours to better myself. I also think it is right and fair that I should pay more tax than those on a lower income, but I think this government has gone too far. They’ve skewed the system so that it isn’t worth having a career because it just leads to higher taxes.
Income Tax - It's like being mugged every month...
Just because you earn more, does the government the right to steal more off you? You put blood sweat and tears into earning an income and they say something like, ‘you have got too much money, give it here’. It’s like being mugged every month. In fact it's worse, at least if you're mugged you can report the crime!
It's not actually paying income tax that I object to, it's the fact that other people seem free to thieve off the state in benefits fraud and mostly get away with it; thereby costing me even more in tax to subsidise it.
As for the amount of tax payers money that is spent on immigrants, both legal and otherwise, don’t even start me on that one!Comments from visitors
poortaxpayer - 30-Apr-12 17:37
I will be paying most of these taxes, at the rates suggested. I am not rich enough to go offshore so I am got here.
OK if you don't want to give half your wealth in Capital Gains or Inheritance Tax: spend spend spend. At least VAT/Sales tax is less than Inheritance Tax [on those average of us to have wealth way over the threshold].
Firstly most people are in the 20% not 40% tax bracket. (had you forgotten the 50% bracket for real high earners?).
You only pay VAT on spending, not income.
You don't pay inheritance tax (which is generally at a much lower rate than you post) on your income either.
If you added the percentage of every type of tax together it would probably be in the thousands, not hundreds. The truth is that you'll never pay most of these in your lifetime.
Your post was about as inaccurate as it could be.
Income tax 20% - 40%
National Insurance 11%
VAT 20%
Council Tax 5%-10%
Inheritance tax 40%
Total over 120%
Err.. yes it does, because you are in the unique position of earning in the first place and can help those who can't. You may come to depend on public handouts one day yourself, the future is uncertain.
Do they b*gg*ry. They're in charge, they say, and we can all do as we're bl**dy-well told.
As Bertolt Brecht said, "When government doesn't agree with the people, it's time to change the people"!
Nu-Labour love their targets, don't they? Targets are virtually the only solution they have to any problem, and a very useful one to politicians because it enables them to shift the blame onto someone else. Hospitals falling down and filthy? Give the Health Trusts another target! No, not shedloads of cash, just a target. Patients dying on the corridors? Give 'em a target!
Schools failing? Children leaving unable to read, write or spit straight? Give those idle teachers a few targets, that'll sort 'em out!
Banks going bust? Credit collapsed? Homes being repossessed by the thousand? Businesses failing? GDP falling? Pound worth less than the Zimbabwe dollar? Give the b******s a few targets! What? Why won't it work? Oh, I see. Right, let's give them shedloads of money instead.
Sorry it is much bigger mess than that and going after the vulnerable will just make things worse. Believe me it will make things a lot worse.
I agree tax is too high but you are blaming the wrong people. Are there enough jobs, do universities and schools do a good job at an affordable rate, should we abandon disabled people, is government spending too much on ITSELF.
I wish people for once would have a good think and realise government itself is broken and it is NOT the fault of the vulnerable.
You know by providing benefits we stop chaos on the streets. How would like your tax back and to live behind gates and be fearful of people, not to mention that they always spend it re-turning the wheels of economy. You know hoe many jobs would be LOST if we stopped caring.
I agree there is a minority of benefit cheats and bad lazy people but they are tiny stat on your tax burden. The overwhelming unemployed want to work but there is no jobs or education they can afford. Disabled people; to abandon them is down right stupid we would live in a horrid country then. I would leave this nation if vulnerable people were abounded (as it could be me one day if I am in an accident etc) I am not not liberal I have a heart.
It is so much bigger than your moan - and what comes down to is broken government not the vulnerable stop blaming them you do yourself no justice.
You know what I agree with you until you make the same old mistake so many of us conservatives make - blame the vulnerable. The new prime minister I think sees this but I don't think his party does. If they backed him 100% we would be a string nation again. We all know he is checked by his back benchers.
Income tax was 24% in 1996.
They have got to find the extra pay and pensions, (not forgetting bonuses and expenses) for all the administrators of this country from some-where.
Gainsborough lad. - 9-Dec-09 23:17
This demi purgatory. This Hell. This other seedy nation
This sceptic tank. This sheit of mire.
This public toilet of muck
This floating turd set in the dank sewer
This putrid land
This unhappy breed of toads
This cursed plot. This groaning land
This distressed kingdom





