mafya Posted March 5, 2013 Share Posted March 5, 2013 Many minimum wage earners are part-time,so they remain poor.If you remove all allowances,then everyone pays a flat rate,which is therefore highly damaging to the poor.They will therefore claim benefits quite rightly. On page 10 of today's mirror newspaper Kevin McGuire writes about ukip wanting to abolish the 40 and 50p tax rates charged on high earners and bring in a flat 31p including national insurance for everyone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crazybaby Posted March 5, 2013 Share Posted March 5, 2013 Ive just checked their website, it will totally take me out of paying tax & ni as it doesnt start until you earn £11,500 which is a good thing for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeMaquis Posted March 5, 2013 Share Posted March 5, 2013 Ive just checked their website, it will totally take me out of paying tax & ni as it doesnt start until you earn £11,500 which is a good thing for me. There speaks a UKIP member. UKIP would abolish higher rates of tax so that everyone above your conveniently-quoted level of £11,500 would pay the same rate of 31% on that extra income. In other words a regressive right-wing form of taxation. Even the Tories support higher rates of tax for high earners. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeffrey Shaw Posted March 5, 2013 Share Posted March 5, 2013 But it's a valid point. Why should the tax rate increase for higher earners? As higher earners, they already pay more income tax. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Manlinose Posted March 5, 2013 Share Posted March 5, 2013 it isn't a valid point the more you earn over a certain level, the more, as a proportion of your income, you should pay in tax in my opinion it is common sense - human nature being what it is, most higher earners would not voluntarily pay more - i don't see any problem with it being compulsory that those of us who are lucky enough to earn more are expected to pay more to assist those that are less fortunate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
truman Posted March 5, 2013 Share Posted March 5, 2013 it isn't a valid point the more you earn over a certain level, the more, as a proportion of your income, you should pay in tax Genuine question...why? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WeX Posted March 5, 2013 Share Posted March 5, 2013 But it's a valid point. Why should the tax rate increase for higher earners? As higher earners, they already pay more income tax. I have always thought this. Higher earners do not use the services more. We do not charge high earners more for their electricity do we, so why for their government provided services? ---------- Post added 05-03-2013 at 13:26 ---------- the more you earn over a certain level, the more, as a proportion of your income, you should pay in tax Why? What logic are you using to come to this conclusion? in my opinion it is common sense - human nature being what it is, most higher earners would not voluntarily pay more - i don't see any problem with it being compulsory that those of us who are lucky enough to earn more are expected to pay more to assist those that are less fortunate What has luck got to do with it? These people are not lucky, they are hard working individuals who have worked their way to a point where they can earn more money. Why does that mean they should pay even more than they already do. This method of taxation is called Progressive, but it has no relation to the meaning of the word. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
I1L2T3 Posted March 5, 2013 Share Posted March 5, 2013 Interesting idea from UKIP that is worth considering if overall tax take was increased. In terms of admin it would greatly simplify the system too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
altus Posted March 5, 2013 Share Posted March 5, 2013 Interesting idea from UKIP that is worth considering if overall tax take was increased. In terms of admin it would greatly simplify the system too. If you reduce the tax rate paid by higher earners and increase the tax threshold, as UKIP are proposing to do, then either the tax take will go down or they'll have to increase the tax paid by those in the middle to make up the difference. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Manlinose Posted March 5, 2013 Share Posted March 5, 2013 Genuine question...why? genuine answer - because i believe it is the right thing to do Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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