Do you begrudge high earners?

I’ll help you….

The 10% of income taxpayers with the largest incomes contribute over 60% of income tax receipts.

if 99.9% of them are dodging it do the maths on that.

TLDR: The 10% of income taxpayers with the largest incomes contribute over 60% of income tax receipts.

Assertions that 99.9% of earners over £300k are tax avoiding are just crazy....

Bugs me when folks speculate on people they know nothing about.

There's definitely a bunch of folks on here creating an unpleasant narrative of what they think high earners are both saying and doing, but completely disconnected from reality.

i think we are on the same page really.

but I did pay lots into my pension which wasn’t taxed at the time but is now.

I’m a nurse who ended up teaching/in research and for a 60K plus salary but I don’t think of that as being a high earner despite what the average wage is.

This.

Ok then.

https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cbp-8513/

There you go, in black and white, how wrong you are.

No for a variety of reasons including the tax burden

No. They work hard and take huge amounts of responsibility in their jobs. They pay a lot of tax, spend on goods & services and often employ people too. The country needs them.

Ludicrous and laughable.

i don’t make 300k but I’m touching 200k I pay over £75k in taxes and NI every year…. I’m not usual in this

Not to hand but I’m not naive so I don’t need to find a source

Many people do and at a lot less than the "300k" op has stated

Again. You’re showing your lack of understanding with salary vs wealth. At most someone on PAYE can out in extra to a pension to reduce their tax burden. High earners on PAYE are literally the people funding the country for themselves and everyone else. It’s the people hiding behind wealth, assets and dividends who you are thinking of. People on a salary via PAYE are paying extortionate amounts of tax and quite literally funding UK plc.

im sorry that happened to you 💐

When I did return for the bag, I was told by the head of the drawing office I couldn't take a joke. That I was ok with the bum slapping,"jokes", only because I took Claire Rayners advice . In the 60s I was modeling, offered huge amount of money to take my clothes off.... nope I never did.

No, but I don't believe a lot of the posters on those threads earn as much as they claim to. People on wages £125k + are a small percentage of the population. Interesting how so many of them have time to be on here in the middle of the working day!

Any data to back up this assertion?

Someone on 30k might work twice as hard as someone on 300k, be more intelligent but chosen an industry that pays less.

Some influencers earn over 300k and do not work hard. How hard someone works will vary immensely depending on what job and industry they're in.

I don't begrudge anyone for what they earn because we're all on different paths, but I think people who assume the higher the salary the harder the work are very naive.

No not necessarily - if they tax avoid which I reckon 99.9% of them do. As I said, on that amount of money you can afford an accountant to get you out of paying tax. Wake up.

A lot of high earners get paid for the mental strain. I’ve been in an office where the CEO resigned and no one wanted to step into the job despite the high pay packet because they didn’t want the burden. You have to be willing to sit people down and fire them, you have to manage people who don’t deliver, get a project over the line while trying to deal with that one creative person on the team who promised the client a bunch of impossible shit.
Imagine that you’re responsible for delivering a 5mil dollar project, the time is tight, you’re already over budget and your head is on the chopping block. Look around at 30 of your colleagues and ask yourself if you could be genuinely be their manager and meet the delivery targets. Nine times out of ten it’s a miserable ruthless task.

Money was never a big issue for me. I always said job satisfaction was more important, I was nursing over 40 years. I did a few other jobs as well. The highest paid was in London surveyor in the building trade, this was in the 70s, lots of verbal sexual abuse (Claire Rayner agony aunt said ignore that and the bum slapping, don't let them see you react) I did, then one day, I was called into the drawing office, and 3 of them tried to get my clothes off. I managed with difficulty to get away, beating on the door, screaming at the 16 year old opposite on the phone, only other female in the place to call the police. She just sat there with her mouth open. I ran out, didn't even stop for my handbag. Started training a year later.

Nope, I'm not willing to put in the time and effort myself. There's more to life and beyond a certain level of security and comfort, wealth in itself doesn't seem to make people very happy.

So the high earner will have funded their access to the fire service. Many times over.

Not at all.

I do have an issue when high earners moan about low earners getting government help, or when they can't seem to understand that not everyone can be a high earner and it's often a lot more complicated than just "working hard."

No, unless they've exploited others to get to the position.