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Libby Frost
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 United Kingdom
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 Posted - 01 May 2008 : 10:22:32 AM
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 So it seems the richer get richer and the poor get poorerWhos great idea was it to tax the lesser paid more than someone on a decent income?what is this bloody country coming too?? Just had my monthly wages and thanks to our wonderful goverment in all their infinite wisdom now i pay a 5th in tax.Their driving people out of this country mark my wordsHow the hell can you afford to go to work in the first place with petrol prices so high
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Geena
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Posted - 01 May 2008 : 10:26:07 AM
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| Tell me about it, Jamie and I are considering completing our emigration application to Austrailia |
  
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Libby Frost
Platinum Member
United Kingdom
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Posted - 01 May 2008 : 10:27:52 AM
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| if we could id emigrate to new zealand tomorrow. |
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pat ww
Platinum Member
United Kingdom
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Posted - 02 May 2008 : 8:31:24 PM
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Nothing changes. As far back as 1984 I got a first class mark in a Law degree essay which identified with actual jobs and scenarios just this very issue.
the answer is so simple.
Scrap National Insurance which runs at about 10 per cent of cetain income levels, and use its replacement tax at 10 per cent as a starter tax band with every employed person being given a free pension / social security credit for actually having a job.
Then tax at the higher per centages can come in on higher levels of income.
So simple even a politician could have thought of it |
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Roseanne
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United Kingdom
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Posted - 02 May 2008 : 9:22:24 PM
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Gordon Brown's paying for this already!! Losing out all around the country.
The junior reporters at work are really angry about this. They just don't earn enough to warrant being taxed. Not the kind of political birth the Labour party thought they were engendering among the young I'm sure! |
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arabic
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England
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Posted - 02 May 2008 : 10:06:50 PM
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| Diabolical!! Any overtime you work - goes in tax. OH worked loads over Christmas and has just cut back and having 2 days off a week, mostly weekends which is lovely. Turns out all his overtime went in tax and he isnt much worse off!! Where is the incentive in that?? |
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kimzi
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Posted - 02 May 2008 : 11:16:30 PM
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Unfortunately though this is bad there also appears to be a hidden agenda, the outcome for poorer families is that they are now forced to claim benefits in the form of childrens tax credits, working tax credit etc. whereas before they may not have and taken on a second job. The government coffers will become bigger as the politicians say that everyone grossly affected would be entitled one benefit or another, but did the benefits rise with inflation so that they would be better off? or even remain with the same takehome as before?
What i hate is that having a self employed husband who is a haulier is that now we are worse off two fold, we have lost our tax free allowance and to remain competetive cannot raise prices but our costs have also gone up by 10%, and i would not give all my personal details to yet another government agency for what may be only a couple of quid a month so that they can keep a big brother eye on my finances. And if i did could i guarantee they wouldnt cock it up and forces me to pay thousands back with interest for their mistakes. Watch the economy crumple and die, i am scared of the future in britain we are being sucked dry. |
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Libby Frost
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United Kingdom
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Posted - 04 May 2008 : 7:45:02 PM
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| me too,its VERY worrying.I posted this same thread on my bike club forum, their concerened alright ,the thread had 40 hits on it in 2 hours!!!! |
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