To actually not mind paying tax?

This is exactly my position. I cannot afford to pay more tax. I am a lone parent, yet people on the same household income as me with two working parents are paying 20% tax each, while im paying higher rate and UC for other people! Childcare is expensive, housing is expensive, life is expensive. The whole tax system is a shambles.

Contrary to popular mumsnet belief not everyone on here who says they earn more than average is lying to get the validation of being told they are a liar on mumsnet.

You don't need to be a billionaire to pay six figures in tax. You need to be highly paid and living in the UK.

You may not believe that any woman could reach those giddy heights. That's your issue not mine.

If I see the changes of where my tax is going to, I'm more than happy to pay it.

I doubt it

I can’t say the thought of higher tax is all that. If others are keener maybe they can voluntarily pay more

I don't mind paying tax for a fairer society and better public services.

I do mind the way the tax burden sits more and more on the shoulders of a diminishing number of contributors, it's both unsustainable and unfair. I object to paying tax to fund other people's lifestyle (not those in genuine need of support).

My marginal tax rate in Scotland is 69.5%, it makes striving for better pay pointless.

YABU, but I know people like being robbed, so also YANBU. If you want to pay more money than what's already been taken off of you, you're welcome to pay a special cash gift to the HMRC.

More than 6 figures? I doubt it. Not unless you're a billionaire.

Is it just me who finds this stealth boasting and virtue signalling wearisome?

I pay more than six figures in tax and see next to nothing for it. I agree with paying tax but won't stay in the uk to have my income taxed at more than 45%.

Because in the real world when more than half the population are net takers and less than half are paying for everyone else, it becomes a vicious cycle.

You can’t have an ever increasing amount of tax, and ever increasing amount of people who only take from the system on a net basis and a reducing number of net contributors.

Well…. you can, if you think Venezuela has a good economic model.

I am happy to pay taxes, but I am not happy with currently paying a 60% tax rate (more if you consider lost childcare) and being excluded from some of the standard benefits that my payment funds - i.e., in this case, tax-free childcare and funded childcare hours. As a result of being excluded from these, but not earning such vast sums above the threshold, I am pushed to fund my pension instead. Losing the public purse 40% of that income. I'm not sure how that is fiscally sensible at all.

FWIW, I think most people are generally pretty comfortable paying taxes in return for a civilised society but there is a tipping point. Doesn't the Laffer Curve suggest taxes over 50% begin to reduce the taxation income (suggesting maybe 50% tax is the tipping point for most) - I'm no economist so not sure!

The public services are shocking currently too, which means people feel they are paying in and not getting decent services in return. You can see this in the poor state of healthcare in the UK, underfunded school system, road potholes not fixed for several months, councils cutting services they provide but increasing council tax at the same time. It's not surprising people are feeling negative about paying (possibly) more tax.

How is he 'paying again'? You don't pay tax when you're dead! The recipient should pay tax on their windfall.

When I pay my hairdresser, she still pays tax, even though I've already been taxed on that money.

The tax applies to the person receiving the money, not the money itself.

Dh top rate tax payer and has no problem paying tax at all, the only one he does have a problem with is inheritance tax.. he's already paid his taxes on his earnings so why should he have to pay again?

I have no issue with paying taxes. However we need huge benefits reform. I resent paying taxes to pay benefits to people who choose not to work (not those who cannot) and people who exploit the benefits system.

I also think there is a feeling that we are literally paying into a black hole. The average nursing home place costs more than £1k a week. SEN specialist educational facilities can charge in excess of £100k per year per pupil. OP's contribution as a high rate tax payer is not even getting close to funding either of these things, let alone paying for anything else. Very few of us are net contributors and we have a lot of very very expensive health, care and educational bills. Something has to give somewhere but it's obvious why the majority won't see improvement in the services they receive when there are so many very expensive bills to cover.

Taxes here might be low compared to elsewhere but a lot of other things are higher. So…if you’re going to increase tax you need to bring other things down or the backlash will be enormous.

I too am happy to pay tax to help whether a more equal society. I think there are many of us.

I have no issue paying taxes, I just want them to go to the right places and be spent responsibly

Yes, spending billions on preventing healthy people from working, for example.

Perhaps the anger comes from how the money is being spent rather than having to pay taxes.

I think we have got ourselves in a terrible mess with the current taxation system.

It penalises those that are aspiring to make something of themselves and rewards those who want to do as little as possible. We have a productivity crisis in this country largely due to the taxation and benefits system. The amount of threads you read on here where people say that they could work more but it's not financially worth it for them. They either will be taxed so punitively that they take home peanuts extra for working more hours or they will no longer be able to claim some lucrative benefit. This cannot be right if we are seriously about achieving economic growth which is the only way to realistically get us out of this mess.

Same. Educated our population, look after their health, provide housing, look after those who need it- what else really matters?

Those things cost money.

I voted Labour and I don't mind paying tax (I'm not a higher rate taxpayer but DH is), but I don't think higher taxes will be enough to turn around the NHS. I support NHS reform.

That's not how it works, unfortunately. Public spending is far too complex to make any sort of guarantees like that.