Reading today about the Labour proposal to tax the top 5% more heavily in order to pay for public services. It just strikes me as very old fashioned thinking to not take account of the fact that most households have 2 earners and that it might be better to tax the household income, not the individuals.
Using Labour's top 5% - take a couple each earning £45k - they'll pay 22k this year in tax and NI. If one of them was a SAHP and the other on 90k they'd pay 30k in tax and NI. It seems to me that we could fund better services, both more fairly and without clobering everyone so hard if the household income were taxed rather than the individuals.
None of this is intended as a plea for the rich - or indeed a suggestion as to what the rate should be - just a suggestion on a fairer tax system. AIBU?
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.. to think it's about time we taxed *household* income
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sussexman · 07/05/2017 08:17
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