Arbeitsminister deutet auf Steuererhöhungen für die Mittelschicht hin – schließt jedoch Risiken für Menschen mit „bescheidenen Einkommen“ aus
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/tax-rise-rachel-reeves-wealth-heidi-alexander-b2788080.html
Von Low_Map4314
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Wealth tax, where “wealth” is over £100k pa PAYE. After all someone has to pay for the motability scheme, PIP and the person who can’t work due to stress of their pet hamster dying 20 years ago. And it’s going to be the usual suspects who pay…again!
Can they please fix our insane [marginal tax rate system](https://taxpolicy.org.uk/2024/03/10/infographic_marginal_rates_2024/)? A parent with children and student loan will be paying 51% in marginal tax for income between £50k and £60k and 67% for £60k-£80k! It’s part of why young families are struggling to move from rental to a mortgage.
It started with no tax rises, then no tax rises on working people, then employer NI isn’t a tax on working people, now we’re at no tax rises on modest incomes.. and soon it will be no tax rises for unemployed people
Mark my words. They are going to attack pensions contributions. Middle earners for too long have been able to save and build wealth for their retirement. THIS LABOUR GOVERNMENT WILL TAKE BOLD ACTION, TO STEAL THE FUTURE OF YOUNG WORKING PEOPLE. Cause anyone saving money clearly has broad shoulders and their earned income MUST BE DISTRIBUTED.
This is what happens when the country isn’t doing well.
We’re encouraged to fight amongst ourselves, so we don’t start making demands upon the broadest shoulders
Yeah, because they were forced to u-turn on some extremely tepid disability benefit reform, they now have to find some other way to balance the books. Their backbenchers won’t allow them to cut spending, the bond markets won’t allow them to borrow anything, so all that’s left is tax hikes.
Here we go. The left cannot help but sabotage itself. They are literally lubing us up for a Farage led government. And the horror that will unfold under that regime will make many here look back with nostalgia on Labour’s fairly modest benefit reduction proposals.
The UK cannot afford the level of state support we currently provide people. It’s as simple as that.
Got to pay for the tax hole created by those with bleeding hearts for benefits scroungers.
I might just apply for PIP citing stress from taxes and get on the gravy train too.
Labour so working class they’ve never heard of the rich before /s
We already have a top heavy tax system. Reality is the average person doesn’t pay enough to cover our services. Noones going to admit it but base rate +1%, ctg +1% is the real solution.
When will people wake up. We are taking money from productive people and giving it to unproductive people.
There is no middle class!!! Well it’s been squeezed to the brink. They’re just trying to pit the working class against each other instead of upsetting those elites who hoard the hundreds of millions! Cowards
ELI5 why would a VAT rise not work. If I wanted to buy something that cost £100 I could pay £105 if food, kids clothes, utilities and other key essentials were exempt wouldn’t this be a fair way of clawing back some tax revenues from people with disposable incomes?
Great, more tax rises. That will fix the stagflated economy /s
When did everyone not on a “modest income” also not become a “working person”.
Vote in haste, repent at leisure people.
Already cut my hours and pumped the pension.
You get jack all else out of me.
And I don’t care.
I think we need to look at those paying themselves 12500 a year and giving themselves dividends ?
Not against paying more taxes, but increasingly feels like this is a wealth transfer to pensioners as the country crumbles due to underinvestment , rather than shouldering a necessary burden to fix anything.
We should not be taxing people on 100k. We should be taxing corporations and assets. No more landlords buying 10 properties. Increase council tax on multiple homes and they are not allowed to pass it on. Increase stamp duty.
Increase corporation tax and Ban loopholes.
Get rid of the triple lock ffs
Don’t screw over the livelihoods of the young people that have yet to live their lives
But the main thing is that they didn’t get rid of the winter fuel allowance, people 🥲
What the public wants is for the rich and corporations to pay what they should. Not much to ask is it.
You just knew the disabled would get the blame by the vile in here and in the right wing media.
I wouldn’t mind but those crying the loudest usually have zero experience of the pip process at all.
Once again if you do well for yourself you pay a bigger penalty
It’s the middle class who gets battered more than anyone
This isn’t the 1980s. „High earning“ middle class workers on 100k in London aren’t thriving. Nobody who works for their money is thriving.
Our economy today is one where the truly wealthy are living it large. But even our so-called left wing party seems to refuse to go anywhere near that. Instead we tax workers, and try to pit workers against each other.
Country’s gone
It’s a great debate here, and no firm conclusion. My view is that any additional taxes for anyone are out of the question. Savings must be made on government expenditure
I swear Labour just want to drag everyone down, if you strive and achieve even slightly they hate you.
I have no issue paying more tax for the disabled. My best mate gets a mobility car because he lost his legs in an accident a decade ago(he works still btw). My other family member is also on pip because they were routinely abused in a 70s school for the deaf. He’s tried to kill himself twice already but I’m sure the right wing media will claim he’s just „sad“.
But I do mind paying more tax so my great aunt can get another windfall on her state pension, shes got two fucking houses and just leased a lexus. Did she work hard for her money? No she bought a council house for a few K that’s now worth half a million plus and she equity released money to buy her holiday home and cars.
But those fuckers in wheelchairs.
Removing the personal allowance will probably be the best thing the UK does in regards to tax changes
Nice vague phrasing, with lots of room for interpretation by individuals, so that it can mean anything to anyone lol.
Oh boy I wonder how many people who railed against the disability reforms will now be screaming about no tax rises.
I bet you the venn diagram overlaps.
So, tax rises for Nick, 30 ans, again?
Make it stoppppp
If Mark Carney can make CAD25 billion in cuts in Canada, why can’t Starmer?
Ah yes, after already losing the working class, disabled and elderly, let’s go after the middle class now!
Everyone but the rich must suffer
Once again, the poor fuckers propping the system up paying higher rate income tax, NI etc are the ones who get targeted because it’s easier and they earn just enough to be painted as the rich bastards who need to pay their fair share.
Those damn wealthy middle class fat cats on £50k have had it too good for too long….