Need a hand choosing?

It's 3.7% for anyone earning up to 100K, and that's where it's capped.

Of course those earning over 100K will also be in a higher tax bracket.

 

capped.

"not by a huge amount" you say. We'd be about two grand a year worse
off.

In fact, I might even be better off moving to fucking Paris[1] and
paying French income tax rates.

[1] not that I'd ever do this, of course[2]
[2] though I do quite like the idea of the (small) possibility of
relocating to our new Singapore office.

 

Singapore!! and you call me a right wing neo-fascist. That's one
*controlled* society.

'Hog

 

darsy proposed

Do you like your e-mails read by government officials and your phone
tapped?

 

Kiran proposed

They're in power in Germany and everybody there said what you just said
ten years ago.

 

Heh. I just meant it'd be preferable to living in Paris.

 

Oh sure, they're a long way off from getting them right. The
principle's sound, though.

I'll only vote for the Green's because I think the anarchy that would
ensue if they actually got in would be a laugh. And also, not voting
means you're morally obliged not to complain about who actually gets
in.

It literally sends a shiver down my spine when I find myself agreeing
with you. Though I'd have income tax flat at 20%, VAT at 20% for
essentials and 30% for luxuries, and (this is the bit you probably
wouldn't agree with) up social security payments to account for the VAT
rise.

Oh, and I wouldn't dick around with the NLF - all proceeds from sale of
lottery tickets would go straight into revenue coffers, so it'd be more
obvious that it's a simple tax on misplaced hope, greed and stupidity.

That reminds me, must my a lottery ticket tomorrow.

 

Ouch. Only a couple of hundred here.

 

slightly tongue-in-cheek, old boy.

We've got a Hong Kong office too, that might be nice.

 

You don't earn much do you?

Check your sums again , I think you'll find yours will be higher than you
think.

 

Compared to you Southern lot, probably not.

OK, it's a bit worse.. but I think the 3.7 number also had some caps on
it as when I used a calculator thingy online it came out with a lower
number..


Anyhow, i'll cost "some pounds".

 

Knowing you, and having heard reports from close friends about Singapore, I
think it'd drive you absolutely fucking spare.

The best thing about Singapore, so I've heard, is that it's not that far to
lots of other exotic places

 

There's a calculator on www.axethetax.org.uk

 

darsy proposed

Yeah, Hong-Kong is alrightish, I suppose, but I haven't been there
since our current University Chancellor hugn up his boots there.

 

Fucksake. As if income tax wasn't unfair enough in the first place.
We'd be 3k a year worse off, predictably enough, if this came in and
we still lived in the UK.

AAMOI We pay about 1800 Euro (==£1100) in equivalent taxes on the
house in France, made up with Taxe Foncière, Taxe d'Habitation and
local water, sewerage and rubbish collection charges, compared with
the £700 or so we were paying on the house in MK.

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yes, I know. I. Was. Joking.

Well, apparently we have a very nice office near the yacht club...

 

Oh **** yes. Much cleaner I'm sure, folk don't piss in the streets.
I've not been in Singapore mind, just shared an MBA year with a dozen of
them. Consulate people used to visit to *encourage* them to return home
at course end and the women wouldn't get their pants down.

'Hog

 

Ace thinks it's unfair that he pays a higher rate than poor people.

He's Hog's gruppenfuhrer.

 

with you. Though I'd have income tax flat at 20%, VAT at 20% for

I would scrap VAT altogether, balanced by scrapping the EU
contributions. Common market yes, Parliament no. I don't think
governments should have the right to charge levies on *any* goods, it's
not transparent enough. One flat tax each for income/corporation, and
they set it accordingly. That'll put paid to all their lunatic spending
schemes. Our Corp tax rate should be no more than 20% and lower for
companies which manufacture goods in the UK.

In terms of NHS, Pension & SS, let it be paid out of a direct NI
contribution scheme, again that maintains transparency and people can
rationalise and vote accordingly. Employers and employee NIC should be
rolled into one figure. I'm all for benefits being far higher for folk
who have paid and then find themselves out of work or severely disabled.
Roads and Public transport the same, all paid from a single VED.

In particular I don't buy into fuel taxes. Folk have a reasonable right
to move around unhindered and not according (too much) to earning power.
If it is polluting then government should legislate in cleaner fuels,
all diesels could be burning biodiesel today with a knock on benefit for
farming. We could already be on track for all cars to be hydrogen
electric in 10 years, as it is more like 60 years.

The *entire* tax system is a complete and utter fucking shambols. I can
do **** all about politics in GB but I'm doing a bit to change it in NI.

'Hog

 

Obvious, innit? As I high earner I pay more than most folk, so it's
inherently geared against me.

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