Brilliant, might push a bit more tech talent down south!
But on a serious note, tax rises stifle economic growth, I don’t think the economy of Scotland can take any more hits, I know the rest of the UK can’t….
Scotland really is a joke (from someone who is Scottish). Let’s punish people who actually work to give to those that don’t….great, how inspiring!!
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More money to spunk on corrupt Ferry contracts…
Classifying someone earning £43k as a “higher earner” is a joke.
I’m affected by the rise but more than happy to pay it. UK is paying it’s nurses the lowest in Europe and funnily enough they have a staff shortage. It will take a long time to sort but I’d rather pay a couple of percent for fair public services than a couple of grand a month for the American style private healthcare that the Tories seem to be so interested in
Taxes of a socialist country, services of a capitalist one 😂
Imagine paying * percent of your wages on tax, 11+ percent on national insurance, 20 percent on everything you buy and then having absolutely no public services to show for it.
I’d be better off just throwing the money out the window
I would love to know if this has ever worked, if tax yields increased or went down with people getting round it
Goddamn, and they say r/Scotland is a cult.
Most comments here are trying to spin a tax rise that directly goes into the NHS as something bad.
No doubt there is a venn diagram of those posters and the crazies talking shite about nurses striking.
Pathetic the lot of you.
Eh its fine, I’m not overjoyed at giving the govt even more of my paycheck but thanks to the govt my student loans are low and nurses got a well deserved bump up.
Like without borrowing powers there’s only so much you can do, and whilst I’d love some radical wealth taxes this will have to do.
And hey they dumped all their indy budget into keeping those worse off warm and fed, so that’s a gesture at least.
I’m affected by this. I’m not massively wealthy but I have a good salary that allows me to not have to worry too much about bills etc. Having looked up my new take home pay from April, this raise really not that much in the grand scheme of things. I would rather live in a country with socialised medicine and at least somewhat of a safety blanket (although it could obviously be better) for those in dire straits, than somewhere like the USA where it’s a screw-you situation if you’re poor.
I have lived in Ireland – similar tax rates, no sign of services anywhere near the Scottish levels. A basic GP appointment or dentist visit costs a fair bit if you’re above the threshold for a medical card – around €50-60 not very much on paper, but enough that you avoid going until you’re practically coughing blood or (in my case) emptying pus from your gums until you can afford it. There’s shit homeless services, so you have homeless people every two metres in the cities with nowhere to go, and a few deaths every winter (1 last week already).
You can drive on the roads, but there’s potholes everywhere (there’s a running joke that if you’re on a really good road in Ireland, you’ve accidentally crossed into the North) – you learn to map them in your head so you don’t wreck your car, because they’re not being fixed for another 3 years.
I’ll also point out – I used to pay approx £100 a month for meds – that’s down to £0.00 a month now I’m on the NHS. High earners like to bitch that they are subsiding others, but we benefit too.
Any time there is a tax raise in Ireland (and I think, in the non-Scotland UK countries), it’s to patch a hole caused by shady practices and/or shitty decision-making – there’s never a sense that it’s to help reinforce progressive societal aims, which I am reasonably confident these Scottish raises are for (reasonably confident is about as optimistic as I can get lol).
Scotland and its services aren’t perfect, buts it’s a hell of a lot better than even close geographical and cultural neighbours, so I’m a lot happier paying extra tax here.
Disheartening, I don’t feel anywhere near like I am a ‘high earner’.
Both of us work, pay extortionate costs for childcare to allow us to work.
Cost everything climbing, pay rise that isnt even close to inflation.
Great
Higher earners paying more tax is always welcome to me, but they keep avoiding the REAL high earners, the richard bronsons and such.
They go after the middle/upper middle class when they should be going after the real corrupt tax dodging scum.
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Brilliant, might push a bit more tech talent down south!
But on a serious note, tax rises stifle economic growth, I don’t think the economy of Scotland can take any more hits, I know the rest of the UK can’t….
Scotland really is a joke (from someone who is Scottish). Let’s punish people who actually work to give to those that don’t….great, how inspiring!!
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More money to spunk on corrupt Ferry contracts…
Classifying someone earning £43k as a “higher earner” is a joke.
I’m affected by the rise but more than happy to pay it. UK is paying it’s nurses the lowest in Europe and funnily enough they have a staff shortage. It will take a long time to sort but I’d rather pay a couple of percent for fair public services than a couple of grand a month for the American style private healthcare that the Tories seem to be so interested in
Taxes of a socialist country, services of a capitalist one 😂
Imagine paying * percent of your wages on tax, 11+ percent on national insurance, 20 percent on everything you buy and then having absolutely no public services to show for it.
I’d be better off just throwing the money out the window
I would love to know if this has ever worked, if tax yields increased or went down with people getting round it
Goddamn, and they say r/Scotland is a cult.
Most comments here are trying to spin a tax rise that directly goes into the NHS as something bad.
No doubt there is a venn diagram of those posters and the crazies talking shite about nurses striking.
Pathetic the lot of you.
Eh its fine, I’m not overjoyed at giving the govt even more of my paycheck but thanks to the govt my student loans are low and nurses got a well deserved bump up.
Like without borrowing powers there’s only so much you can do, and whilst I’d love some radical wealth taxes this will have to do.
And hey they dumped all their indy budget into keeping those worse off warm and fed, so that’s a gesture at least.
I’m affected by this. I’m not massively wealthy but I have a good salary that allows me to not have to worry too much about bills etc. Having looked up my new take home pay from April, this raise really not that much in the grand scheme of things. I would rather live in a country with socialised medicine and at least somewhat of a safety blanket (although it could obviously be better) for those in dire straits, than somewhere like the USA where it’s a screw-you situation if you’re poor.
I have lived in Ireland – similar tax rates, no sign of services anywhere near the Scottish levels. A basic GP appointment or dentist visit costs a fair bit if you’re above the threshold for a medical card – around €50-60 not very much on paper, but enough that you avoid going until you’re practically coughing blood or (in my case) emptying pus from your gums until you can afford it. There’s shit homeless services, so you have homeless people every two metres in the cities with nowhere to go, and a few deaths every winter (1 last week already).
You can drive on the roads, but there’s potholes everywhere (there’s a running joke that if you’re on a really good road in Ireland, you’ve accidentally crossed into the North) – you learn to map them in your head so you don’t wreck your car, because they’re not being fixed for another 3 years.
I’ll also point out – I used to pay approx £100 a month for meds – that’s down to £0.00 a month now I’m on the NHS. High earners like to bitch that they are subsiding others, but we benefit too.
Any time there is a tax raise in Ireland (and I think, in the non-Scotland UK countries), it’s to patch a hole caused by shady practices and/or shitty decision-making – there’s never a sense that it’s to help reinforce progressive societal aims, which I am reasonably confident these Scottish raises are for (reasonably confident is about as optimistic as I can get lol).
Scotland and its services aren’t perfect, buts it’s a hell of a lot better than even close geographical and cultural neighbours, so I’m a lot happier paying extra tax here.
Disheartening, I don’t feel anywhere near like I am a ‘high earner’.
Both of us work, pay extortionate costs for childcare to allow us to work.
Cost everything climbing, pay rise that isnt even close to inflation.
Great
Higher earners paying more tax is always welcome to me, but they keep avoiding the REAL high earners, the richard bronsons and such.
They go after the middle/upper middle class when they should be going after the real corrupt tax dodging scum.