"i dont - i create well paid jobs - so please stop assuming that everyone who makes money is exploiting people"
Well, there's a massive generalisation, but take it personally if you must. I said 'very often' - though it is a general principle that employers pay their employees less and that in many companies a high proportion of the workforce would be basic rate taxpayers. The highest proportion of tax payers are basic rate - and it is presumably them that assist their employers in earning enough to pay higher rate tax. Of course higher rate tax payers often make huge contrbutions to the level of employment in the country, and that's good. But they do that, mostly, because it assists their own income. I don't assume that everyone who emplys someone is exploiting them, fgs, but that often, wealth is built on the labour of people who don't have as much. That is different.
"maybe even the non-tax payers in the case of profits.
you would have to be non dom. if i said to my accountant i did not want to pay tax he would fall off his chair laughing."
Read the context of my post. By non-tax payers I mean those who do nbot contribute by workking for the employer, but the poorer unemployed non-tax payers who, in the case of some companies contribute to profit by buying their services. the things that even poor non-taxed people have to buy - clothes, food, boiler-servicing etc - it all has a profit margin that benefits a shareholder or a self-employed tradesperson, or a CEO of a company or whoever.
This thread is very bitter, and beset with self interest. Look more widely - we benefit from a society in which everyone has some degree of security and living standard.,