Absolutely rinsed in this budget - almost £1k a year worse off.

How do your bills go up when you're in a different tax bracket? Did British Gas add a surcharge? Vodafone add a extra tax charge? Such nonsense

Good on them regardless.

His parents were millionaires before he was born. Both came from wealthy colonial families in east Africa. When they moved to the UK they immediately bought a six bedroom house in an expensive area, and sent all three of their kids to the most elite private schools from primary age through to Winchester (£50k per year per child). They did not do that on a humble GP and pharmacist salary. They had family money.

His family worked hard. So did his wife's side. Rishi Sunak respects the work of his parents and his in-laws.

His father was a GP, his mother a pharmacist. Neither were millionaires just people who worked hard.

He made his money in finance (Goldman Sachs and Hedge Funds). His wealth comes mainly from his wife.

“I’d happily pay more tax if I was in your tax bracket” is meaningless when you’re not. Once you are, all your bills go up - and so does the amount of tax you pay, except that goes up much faster than anything else. I grew up in a council house, DM was on benefits for a while, I actually got a free university education, and I’m more than happy to pay a reasonable, proportionate share. But the marginal rate of 62% is outrageous, and I can’t always avoid it. (Variable bonus/income).

There is a petition to rid the cabinet of Reeves at www.sackreeves.com btw. I don’t think her position is tenable in view of the OBR revelations. But I’m also slightly scared of which sixth form debating society moron will be wheeled into number 11. (Please not Lammy..)

Yes, he successfully chose to be born to millionaire parents and successfully married into a billionaire family

Problem is there really aren’t actually enough of those people to make a massive difference and they are usually savvy enough to have various off shore arrangements /companies to negate tax - it’s not as if they are all working and paying PAYE . Brexit was one of the reasons a lot of very rich ( including media owners) liked the idea because they have enough cash to still be able to get in most country’s or an ability to just move around a lot ( so those issues didn’t matter to them) and the EU were bringing in much more scrutiny on the very wealthy and where they paid tax ( or not) .

He has his own money from his career in the private sector. His wife's family own and run a major Indian tech company who employ lots of people in India. Providing employment and income

Because he married a wife with a filthy rich family?

In all seriousness. I actually like and admire Rishi Sunak and his family for all the success they've had in life.

I think the tax rates in this country are high enough as it is. The largest tax evasion comes from small businesses actually.

The problem is the stupid over complex tax and benefit traps that cause undesired behaviour and loopholes.

Simplify tax and benefits to remove them

• the UC withdrawal rate
• the CB withdrawal rate
• the 100k cliff edge

I don't think many higher earner would begrudge a couple of extra pennies on income tax if it rewarded work and we had good services, but these tax traps are infuriating and just make it literally not worth earning more for millions of people.

And each year it gets worse as inflation drags more people into the traps and actually means disposable income reduces.

People who are genuinely wealthy, people with more money than they could possibly spend in many lifetimes, like Rishi Sunak, those are the ones who should pay. Ordinary people who’ve worked hard to build a comfortable life, pay their bills, support their kids, maybe take a holiday once in a while. They’re the ones who end up squeezed, asked to sacrifice more so that someone else who hasn’t contributed in any meaningful way can take a slice of their earnings.
We’ve reached a point where people genuinely say, “Why bother with a promotion? Any extra money will just disappear in taxes, and I’ll be working harder for nothing.” Meanwhile, certain groups receive government payouts without accountability, and billionaires and corporations contribute a fraction of what they should. If that’s the system, then something is very clearly broken.

A family with a gross income of £140k are well, well above the national average. My husband and I earn way less than you and I would happily pay more tax at your salary bracket in the knowledge that I was much more fortunate than the vast majority of the population. Nursery fees are only temporary by the way. Who do you think should be paying more tax?

I have to say I wish we all didn't descend into insults , being sneery and criticising everyone's job/career.

I think we are all entitled to keep as much as our income as possible

Yep

They already pay the most. It's very easy to say when it's someone's else's money. Just point and say "let's take theirs"

You're exactly who should be paying more tax.

Yeah our household income exceeds OPs and I thought the same. OP you feel squeezed because you are choosing to pay for things that are not necessities which squeeze you. I do not feel squeezed but my kids are at state school and my mortgage is lower as though we could have stretched more we chose not to because we wanted a good buffer in our budget for reasons like this - governments change taxes etc.

Phone, mail, internet I agree with. Rail's a mess.

You do realise that those industries are heavily subsidised by the government?

You do realize that the phone, mail, Internet and to an extent rail are supplied by private companies, right? Not through taxes.
And no one is opposed to paying taxes as a principle ! But they are opposed to paying for their money to be frittered away ridiculously. And then asked to pay more because the first time around it wasn't quite enough...

Why do you assume that taxes merely pay for “life’s ills”? Taxes pay for positive things that we ALL benefit from. We all need well-functioning networks - roads, motorways, rail, post, phone and internet. We need an educated population, businesses wouldn’t be able to run without them.

Even these so called “self-made” businesses owners wouldn’t be where they are without our infrastructure and an educated workforce, that is kept healthy by the NHS; access to clean water and food; and a transport system that allows them to get to work. It doesn’t pay for itself.

How often we see wealthy people begrudge paying their due because they “don’t use the NHS and children attend private school”? They don’t appreciate the vast wealth of public services that they do use every day of their lives.

How many people whinging right now and complaining about scroungers took furlough pay or Covid grants? Some people have very short memories.

Taxes aren’t evil, they’re the mark of a civilised society.

I take from that you're a goady af mnetter with no concept of reality for the majority of people in this country. So there we go.

They already pay more!
Why is this woman's family and everyone else in the same pay bracket accountable for all the ills of this society and fully responsible for fixing them with their money? We already pay taxes and yet there will ALWAYS be people on the breadline. Doesn't matter which govt is in charge. It's the cold reality of life! We don't need to tax people more. We need to waste less money on ridiculous DEI roles in the NHS and hire more nurses; make it easier for business to hire people and give them a Decent salary; tax big corps; tax REAL wealth - 12 % of the society have 60 % of the money of sth like that?; celebrate real success and encourage ppl to do better, to have a sense of individual responsibility and have aspirations (like this woman) instead of giving everyone participation medals and a sense of victimhood