Tax TAx TAX!!!!!! Fuming at our government!

[Baldylovingbeard]

please try and convince me otherwise…..

What a joke this government are!!! ( UK)

Let’s just tax everyone who earns a bit of cash!!! Oh and while we’re at it… go on have loads more children it’s ok others will pay for them!!! Cutting the 2child benefit cap! If you decide to have multiple children you should be able to afford to provide for them. NOT expect others too!!!!! If you fall on hard times and you’ve worked and contributed to paying tax than you are within your rights to claim tax this is what benefits were made for, it’s not a means to not work, have more kids….etc!

Oh and if you work really hard and want to put some money by for you later days in life…. You’ll be taxed!

My situation:
Part time work, full time mum to 1 child. I work for myself and earn around 10k this money usually pays for things our daughter needs… clothes, clubs, any treats.
Husband works long hours, his under a lot of stress with his job, he has worked his way to and earns a very good salary 100k he gets taxed 60% you do the maths on that! We live in a 3 bed around £280k so nothing crazy but live within our means. We have one car! One holiday a year! Put money into savings! Pension! our daughter goes to one after school club. My husband got kicked out of home at 16…. He has worked with no help from family or friends and I believe he has worked very hard to get to where he is now. we are generous with charity’s and try our best to help out when we can if we can!

Also - if she is lazy do you think people on benefits are lazy? Would you call them lazy?

You’ll be seen as a lazy mum for not working full time with kids!!! lol this thread has made me laugh. The hypocrisy from some people is hilarious.

Of course the demand for the role plays a part. In a free market wages are set by demand and supply. Just how it is. Supermarkets workers would be replaced quicker.

And i don't believe working FT in a supermarket is all that bad. Don't all the major retailers pay decent and offer support, training and ways to better yourself.

They aren’t now, but once both were. There’s a 2 year gap between mine. So they were both in nursery at the same time unfunded. I worked FT. 9/10 as did DH but FT none the less

@Baldylovingbeard
I find it odd that some of the increases don't come into effect for a long while. When I was involved duties on fuel and drink always went up at 6pm on budget day.

All I can hope is they will start spending masses on everything that was needed and was cut by the previous government so that they could say that they were not putting up taxes

You won’t win with the righteous, they all know everything about everyone and won’t have a bad word said about the LAZY scrounging British lol 😂

how long ago was this? Nursery fees in my area have gone up 50-70% in the past two years. After tax in my job it would have cost me more to send them to nursery. What would you have done in my position?

I was being deliberately provocative and facetious, I don’t think it’s lazy, you make a choice for your family.

but the OP can’t claim she can’t work, and they are taxed to high heaven and they’re life style wa wa wa, when there is an easy remedy.

work more. Work more = more money, it’s that simple

You’re no more or less lazy than everyone else that’s at home.

Whether you’re a “full time yummy mummy” claiming benefits or a “full time mother” claiming from the bank of husband, you’re still at home and not out working, and crucially not paying your own tax.

In work is in work, out of work is out of work.

And can I ask how much you paid back in 1999??????? Can’t imagine the fees were anything like they are now? Good on you for working full time though! I got a sticker over here !

when they were both in nursery. My youngest is in nursery school and my eldest is in y1.

nursery has gone up significantly to make do with the funding, c 38%. But I still worked FT because I was better off working

What a silly sausage you are, my youngest was born in 2022 and my eldest 2020

Yes, nail on the head. Well articulated

But I wasn’t better off… I would have been 2k worse off. 5k if you counted train fair. Honestly, what would you have done in my position? Do you think I’m lazy?

Bank of husband - marriage is a partnership. DH earns, and the wife raises the kids in the early years.

This is a voluntary decision the family make and aren't reliant on the tax payer.

I would have worked if it had worked out that I made any money but why would I work if the net was negative??

Bank of husband - Jesus fucking Christ how dare you?? I’m not from Gilead - I paid more than my fair share of tax but you seem to think I should have paid 5k to to work

We are considering that yeah. Our housing costs and bills are a lot…

^ please read my post back to you. I don’t actually think it’s lazy, I was being facetious. Because the OP is on her high horse about being taxed to heaven (which is just a hyperbole) and those out of work BUT she’s not too far away from that.

and with one child, unless your salary is very very very low. You are almost certainly better off in work than out of it

Hang on a minute… I’ve never said for one minute I can’t work full time! I choose to work part time because I want to spend time with my child and also don’t want to pay for child care when I can do it.

You lot haven’t listened to a word! lol it is actually quite funny reading for a Thursday afternoon while I sip my hot tea eating biscuits because that’s what I can do as only work part time! 😆

No I don't. I'm saying it's fine for someone to be supported by a husband and be a sahm

It’s a partnership that both parties should be contributing to in all ways, IMO. But I can acknowledge each to their own.

They’re not. But they’re also not contributing what they could be individually. OP is essentially inactive in terms of tax. That means that those of us paying, have to pay more, because she’s not doing “her bit” economically.

The spread is thinner, if you will, because whether she likes it or not, she’s in the percentage of non-contribution.

I do/did the same tbf. Just work PT to have some extra cash. DH makes the big bucks. And my god he works hard and long.

there are a few reasons why some continue to work even if its net negative.

not to be reliant on husband
continue with NI for state pension
to ensure you’re not out of the work force too long that the work force leaves you behind

but as I said it’s not lazy, I was being tongue in Cheek on purpose as there is a huge hole in the OPs argument