Uk wages so heavily taxed..employer confidence low

[ubermaus]

That's about living standards, nothing to do with employer confidence...

 

And I've already demonstrated that the UK does not suffer a high tax burden compared to the rest of europe, so unless you want to pointlessly argue against the facts we can drop that bit now.

 

if employers were confident they would be offering higher salaries wouldnt they?..its an obvious point. Really there are a myriad of reasons. a big one is financial uncertainty...example the GFC..wages have stagnated over the last 7 years.

 

As for tax...we are massively taxed, tax is more than just income tax.

 

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One could ask how your opening post here relates at all to the title you've given the thread.

 

Cost of living inflation higher than salary inflation is nothing to do with high tax (which we don't have) and nothing to do with employer confidence (about which you've posted no evidence).

 

You're plainly wrong about tax...we do have high tax....VAT, Council tax, income tax, NI.....the list goes on.

Petrol?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/road-and-rail-transport/10668970/British-fuel-tax-highest-in-Europe.html

[Cyclone]

Employers pay the lowest they can get away with. Which tends to be around the market rate.

Why would they ever pay more? They're running a business and in most cases salary costs are the highest single costs to the business.

 

Feel free to actually provide some evidence about the total tax burden and how it compares to anywhere else.

[ubermaus]

"British drivers pay a higher rate of tax on fuel than any other motorists in the European Union, according to a new study.

For every litre of unleaded petrol bought in the UK, 61 per cent of the pump price goes to the government as fuel duty and VAT along with 59 per cent of every litre of diesel."

 

---------- Post added 30-03-2015 at 12:56 ----------

 

Employers pay the lowest they can get away with. Which tends to be around the market rate.

Why would they ever pay more? They're running a business and in most cases salary costs are the highest single costs to the business.

 

Feel free to actually provide some evidence about the total tax burden and how it compares to anywhere else.

 

My claims are backed with fact not fiction...employers are bound by laws too, one of them is NMW which is below a living wage..however My original assertion remains...

Relative to the cost of living, taxation is high and wages are low.

Care to prove otherwise?

[truman]

"British drivers pay a higher rate of tax on fuel than any other motorists in the European Union, according to a new study.

For every litre of unleaded petrol bought in the UK, 61 per cent of the pump price goes to the government as fuel duty and VAT along with 59 per cent of every litre of diesel."

 

Makes you wonder where it would be had Labour been in power and continued with the fuel duty escalator....

[Cyclone]

"British drivers pay a higher rate of tax on fuel than any other motorists in the European Union, according to a new study.

For every litre of unleaded petrol bought in the UK, 61 per cent of the pump price goes to the government as fuel duty and VAT along with 59 per cent of every litre of diesel."

 

---------- Post added 30-03-2015 at 12:56 ----------

 

 

My claims are backed with fact not fiction...employers are bound by laws too, one of them is NMW which is below a living wage..however My original assertion remains...

Relative to the cost of living, taxation is high and wages are low.

Care to prove otherwise?

 

No, that's not how debate works is it. Would you care to prove your assertion?

[Mecky]

Employers pay the lowest they can get away with. Which tends to be around the market rate.

Why would they ever pay more?

 

To get the best people as the rightwing gobs on here continually like to point out. Doesn't always work like that though, but don't tell the gobs, it might ruin their day

[ubermaus]

No, that's not how debate works is it. Would you care to prove your assertion?

 

"British drivers pay a higher rate of tax on fuel than any other motorists in the European Union, according to a new study.

For every litre of unleaded petrol bought in the UK, 61 per cent of the pump price goes to the government as fuel duty and VAT along with 59 per cent of every litre of diesel."

 

and on, and on.....how much 'evidence' do you want before you decide I was correct all along?

 

---------- Post added 30-03-2015 at 17:10 ----------

 

Makes you wonder where it would be had Labour been in power and continued with the fuel duty escalator....

 

Left, right, its all the same. The fact remains we are suffering with a wage / cost of living inbalance.