Top 1% of Earners contribute 30% to UK income tax

[Pierre]

I was just listening to Jeremy Vine do the prologue for his show with Ken Bruce on Radio 2, and he came up with the above fact that those earning £150K and above (the top 1%, I would have thought there were more than 1% in that bracket but what do I know) contribute 30% of the overall UK income tax burden.

And he pronounced this as some sort of revelation.

So I did a quick google, as I'm sure I had heard this before. and low and behold:

http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/n...ncome-tax.html

This was first reported over 18 months ago..................

[Ramrod]

Perhaps the left whingers here will stop calling for more taxes for the better off......but I'm not holding my breath....

lol and how much exactly do the top 1% earn per annum and how much tax do they avoid? you are probably talking people earning more than footballers

Originally Posted by Ramrod

Perhaps the left whingers here will stop calling for more taxes for the better off......but I'm not holding my breath....

Why would they? Not much would change upon realisation of this statistic.

Originally Posted by Damien

Why would they? Not much would change upon realisation of this statistic.

it is not like something we did not know. It is all well and good quoting this statistic without the rest of the stats to quantify it

Ok this one % that pays all this tax most likely earn 70% of all the money earnt

Edit the report does. Those who earn £3000 per week or more pay the 50p tax so the poor blighters only get 75 k or more a year to live on how do they cope

and before anyone says they earn it all I have to say is Bankers

[Stuart]

Originally Posted by Ramrod

Perhaps the left whingers here will stop calling for more taxes for the better off......but I'm not holding my breath....

While I don't believe the rich should be penalised as such, it's worth pointing out that if you earn over £150,000 you can still have a nice life on the remaining salary after income tax (even at the highest rate). If you are earning under £20,000, paying income tax may mean you have to skip things so your family can afford to eat.

That's one thing the figures fail to take into account. Another is the amount people earn. The rich have become excellent at tax dodging so while they still pay the higher rate of income tax, they only do it on a fraction of their income, the rest being diverted to off shore companies.

Not all rich people are like that, I'll agree. Some do pay their taxes (I have one cousin who is in the six digit salary group, possibly 7 and considers that because the country helped him, in the form of benefits, when he and his family needed it, he owes the country). Over the years the tax he has paid has paid for the benefits claimed dozens of times over, but he is happy with the thought the money might be helping someone else in his situation.

If just one rich person stopped offshoring 10s of millions of pounds a year and actually paid tax on the FULL amount of their income rather than a fraction of it, how many people would that benefit? The money could pay to keep several schools operating, and upgrade them with state of the art equipment. It could probably build a couple of hospitals.

Originally Posted by tizmeinnit

lol and how much exactly do the top 1% earn per annum and how much tax do they avoid? you are probably talking people earning more than footballers

We are talking anyone earning over 150k and before you start slagging off people on such a wage remember that is not such a high wage as you think and many have worked hard and paid a lot of money to be in that position .

Originally Posted by martyh

We are talking anyone earning over 150k and before you start slagging off people on such a wage remember that is not such a high wage as you think and many have worked hard and paid a lot of money to be in that position .

not such as high a wage as I think lmao pmp

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Originally Posted by Stuart

While I don't believe the rich should be penalised as such, it's worth pointing out that if you earn over £150,000 you can still have a nice life on the remaining salary after income tax (even at the highest right). If you are earning under £20,000, paying income tax may mean you have to skip things so your family can afford to eat.

That's one thing the figures fail to take into account. Another is the amount people earn. The rich have become excellent at tax dodging so while they still pay the higher rate of income tax, they only do it on a fraction of their income, the rest being diverted to off shore companies.

Not all rich people are like that, I'll agree. Some do pay their taxes (I have one cousin who is in the six digit salary group, possibly 7 and considers that because the country helped him, in the form of benefits, when he and his family needed it, he owes the country). Over the years the tax he has paid has paid for the benefits claimed dozens of times over, but he is happy with the thought the money might be helping someone else in his situation.

If just one rich person stopped offshoring 10s of millions of pounds a year and actually paid tax on the FULL amount of their income rather than a fraction of it, how many people would that benefit? The money could pay to keep several schools operating, and upgrade them with state of the art equipment. It could probably build a couple of hospitals.

I agree with you