‘The burden of tax falling on workers and employers has increased as a hotly-debated rise in National Insurance payments takes effect.
Employees, businesses and the self-employed will pay an extra 1.25p in the pound. The extra tax is earmarked for government spending on social care.’
It’s a good job we didn’t do the immoral thing and tax the oil and gas producers. Exxon Mobil and Shell announced a mere 75% increase in profits this year. That just wouldn’t be fair.
On the other hand the lady down the street managed to get her money to stretch this week to feed both her kids AND herself. So she’s clearly got some spare cash…
Tax free allowance to rise in June. That’s good, I guess. Bit of a shit up until then.
Still should have been an income/wealth tax IMHO, perhaps *also* with the increase in tax free allowance.
Record breaking profits during a fuel crisis should have been a green light for the biggest protests the country has ever seen.
Maybe now the price hike has taken effect in a dramatic way & even those who previously didn’t ever think about there bills are now glancing at smart meters and thinking wtf is going on, the next report of record breaking profit will be the final straw & it won’t just be poor out on the streets.
Anyone else feel like the government and these big companies just see us as cash cows? We literally exist to give over every hard earned penny of our money away whilst those on top can get away with bloody murder.
NI rising again ( already paying a ton more due to IR35 ) yet I can’t get a specialist NHS appointment because the waiting list is huge and separately have just had to pay a private dental gum specialist £800/session ( 2 sessions so far ) for treatment because I literally can’t get that on the NHS without waiting years.
This place is a joke.
It’ll be better from July when anyone on less than £34k will pay less on National Insurance.
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The national insurance rise will do nothing to improve the NHS or social care. It will evaporate
A government that supports price gouging by tax free oil companies price gouges its own tax payers…same government that gets a 50 quid fine for a host of parties in lockdown, but decides that fines of 10 to 20k are fine for any of us caught at the same time…same government that tells us are entertainment budgets are frivolous if they come before or in conflict with our heating bills, while claiming their heating bills back on our taxes…
I have a mate called Ms Harding who recently got £32 bn or so, maybe she can give it back to us?
When I was a kid and first learnt about taxes, I feared one day I might be paying tax on the air I breathe. (Total recall comes to mind)
But the reality is so much worse.
I wake up in my flat, which I pay a ton of rent (taxable), bills (taxable) and look at my phone, which is on contract (tax again). I get up, make some food, which I paid VAT on to buy from a shop. Then get in my car, which I pay insurance (taxable), road tax, MOT (taxable due to vat) and drive to work. On my way I need to fill up (again, a HUGE amount of tax) before I eventually get to work.
I then do my day at work, at minimum wage the tax on an hours work is 1.90 per hour. I’m literally paying tax to work. After work, I drive home again, have some food, watch some netflix (paying tax on the vat there, and on the electricity it costs to run my computer) and have a shower (tax on the water bill)
I’m pretty sure there is nothing I do other than sleep and breathe that does not cost tax in some shape or form.
… Unless you’re Shell.
Let me know if anyone has a plan to do anything. Honesty no idea why we’re not burning shit down
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‘The burden of tax falling on workers and employers has increased as a hotly-debated rise in National Insurance payments takes effect.
Employees, businesses and the self-employed will pay an extra 1.25p in the pound. The extra tax is earmarked for government spending on social care.’
It’s a good job we didn’t do the immoral thing and tax the oil and gas producers. Exxon Mobil and Shell announced a mere 75% increase in profits this year. That just wouldn’t be fair.
On the other hand the lady down the street managed to get her money to stretch this week to feed both her kids AND herself. So she’s clearly got some spare cash…
Tax free allowance to rise in June. That’s good, I guess. Bit of a shit up until then.
Still should have been an income/wealth tax IMHO, perhaps *also* with the increase in tax free allowance.
Record breaking profits during a fuel crisis should have been a green light for the biggest protests the country has ever seen.
Maybe now the price hike has taken effect in a dramatic way & even those who previously didn’t ever think about there bills are now glancing at smart meters and thinking wtf is going on, the next report of record breaking profit will be the final straw & it won’t just be poor out on the streets.
Anyone else feel like the government and these big companies just see us as cash cows? We literally exist to give over every hard earned penny of our money away whilst those on top can get away with bloody murder.
NI rising again ( already paying a ton more due to IR35 ) yet I can’t get a specialist NHS appointment because the waiting list is huge and separately have just had to pay a private dental gum specialist £800/session ( 2 sessions so far ) for treatment because I literally can’t get that on the NHS without waiting years.
This place is a joke.
It’ll be better from July when anyone on less than £34k will pay less on National Insurance.
[deleted]
The national insurance rise will do nothing to improve the NHS or social care. It will evaporate
A government that supports price gouging by tax free oil companies price gouges its own tax payers…same government that gets a 50 quid fine for a host of parties in lockdown, but decides that fines of 10 to 20k are fine for any of us caught at the same time…same government that tells us are entertainment budgets are frivolous if they come before or in conflict with our heating bills, while claiming their heating bills back on our taxes…
I have a mate called Ms Harding who recently got £32 bn or so, maybe she can give it back to us?
When I was a kid and first learnt about taxes, I feared one day I might be paying tax on the air I breathe. (Total recall comes to mind)
But the reality is so much worse.
I wake up in my flat, which I pay a ton of rent (taxable), bills (taxable) and look at my phone, which is on contract (tax again). I get up, make some food, which I paid VAT on to buy from a shop. Then get in my car, which I pay insurance (taxable), road tax, MOT (taxable due to vat) and drive to work. On my way I need to fill up (again, a HUGE amount of tax) before I eventually get to work.
I then do my day at work, at minimum wage the tax on an hours work is 1.90 per hour. I’m literally paying tax to work. After work, I drive home again, have some food, watch some netflix (paying tax on the vat there, and on the electricity it costs to run my computer) and have a shower (tax on the water bill)
I’m pretty sure there is nothing I do other than sleep and breathe that does not cost tax in some shape or form.
… Unless you’re Shell.
Let me know if anyone has a plan to do anything. Honesty no idea why we’re not burning shit down