Some people say they’re leaving to live elsewhere to pay less tax, but some people are still moving here regardless of the fact they’ll pay more income tax.
What really matters is the net deficit or benefit. How many people left, how many came here? What’s the overall difference in tax revenue?
Depends what football team you support 🤔
How about both, some leaving, some coming.
One is the facts found by a journalist.
The other is a journalist quoting someone else.
Both? Personally the closer I would move to my job down south the less spare money I’d have though… quite obviously due to CoL.
The first one says higher rate tax payers are leaving, which isn’t what they found, they said net migration of those taxpayers was probably lower than it would have been without the higher taxes in Scotland.
The second said it hasn’t deterred higher rate tax payers from moving here, when the research says it probably has, just it’s still positive even with the reduction Vs the counterfactual.
Journalists’ economic literacy tends to be poor at the best of times, nevermind boiled down to a headline.
Depends who the owner of each media company wants you to vote for and/or think.
Those aren’t mutually exclusive.
I did laugh that in the same edition The Times ran a story about how high earners were avoiding tax… very abridged and paraphrased summation, but gets the irony across.
Either way I’m staying
The SNP baaaad one of course?
Can’t you read.
the one thing keeping me from leaving is the water
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What is going on with this sub?
These aren’t contradicting headlines.
Why not both?
Some people say they’re leaving to live elsewhere to pay less tax, but some people are still moving here regardless of the fact they’ll pay more income tax.
What really matters is the net deficit or benefit. How many people left, how many came here? What’s the overall difference in tax revenue?
Depends what football team you support 🤔
How about both, some leaving, some coming.
One is the facts found by a journalist.
The other is a journalist quoting someone else.
Both? Personally the closer I would move to my job down south the less spare money I’d have though… quite obviously due to CoL.
Neither, they’re both misleading compared to the nuance in the [original research pieces by HMRC](https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/labour-market-participation-and-intra-uk-migration-of-taxpayers) they’re based on.
The first one says higher rate tax payers are leaving, which isn’t what they found, they said net migration of those taxpayers was probably lower than it would have been without the higher taxes in Scotland.
The second said it hasn’t deterred higher rate tax payers from moving here, when the research says it probably has, just it’s still positive even with the reduction Vs the counterfactual.
Journalists’ economic literacy tends to be poor at the best of times, nevermind boiled down to a headline.
Depends who the owner of each media company wants you to vote for and/or think.
Those aren’t mutually exclusive.
I did laugh that in the same edition The Times ran a story about how high earners were avoiding tax… very abridged and paraphrased summation, but gets the irony across.
Either way I’m staying
The SNP baaaad one of course?
Can’t you read.
the one thing keeping me from leaving is the water