to be pissed off at the amount of tax I shell out monthly?

[NutterlyUts]

I earn 1k a month, and 150 of that is eaten by tax and social security immediately. AIBU to be mad at this?

be glad you're not on 40% then

Yes YABU.

The amount of tax and social security that I pay every month is literally staggering. I am not mad about this but what I am mad about is that I have very little say in how the money is spent. I don't especially want to pay for wars, I'd rather spend on education, for instance.

And actually, that proportion of tax/NI to income seems low to me. I seem to remember (when I worked) around 25& of my income going.

Presumably yuo are either entitled to tax credits or this isn't your sole income?

Lol, you should see the tax I pay. My gross salary is 2.2x my net salary. And it all goes to line politicians' pockets (or so it seems of late).

I live in Jersey. No tax credit system here. Is my sole income, and I also pay income tax yearly on this as well.
It just seems really shit to have that money come out with no agreement with me, and as someone else says, be spent on this I don't agree with.
I know many people pay more tax then me, but it just sucks to have that income that I could spend on so much more go

Also know that your employer is paying an extra 10% of your monthly salary to the government as Employers NI Contributions.

YANBU and YABU a bit.
In my less rational moments I frequently think about giving up work, chucking dh out and just lolling around and letting the state pick up the bill

Goordon Brown must love me

I pay 40% tax on some earnings
I pay nursery fees- gordon'll get some national insurance out of the staff there
I don't claim any benefits except child benefit
i am bringing up the next generation of taxpayer
my employer pays for private health insurance so i won't have to use up NHS resources
i pay into a pension, which may be taxed too, but heh, i couldn't understand all the small print when i paid into it

however, DS, aged 4, wears glasses so i'm at risk of bringing the NHS to it's knees with all the glasses he breaks. thank god for the nhs coz if i had to pay for those glasses myself, i would cry.

But the thing about taxation is that you cannot have a system where people choose what they pay into or not. If you don't have children, why should you pay tax for education. If you privately educate... If you have private health cover...If you've never had to call the fire brigade....if you've never been the victim of a crime. And so on and so on and so on.

Jersey! Isn't your tax rate really low then don't move here you'd fall over!

As I'm filling in my tax return at the moment (or should be) this is a rather painful subject right now. But income tax doesn't really bother me, it's effing council tax. Now there's a bleeding unfair, regressive tax for you. And all you ever get for your pain is the council moaning they don't get enough from central govt. so have to cut services and put the tax up again by several times more than inflation the following year. The rate of increase has been way higher than inflation or growth in earnings for the past decade. Something very wrong there.

Some of it to do with the fact that business rates have been held steady for years while householders have been squeezed, I suspect.

Goordon- brother of Gordon?

Sometimes I feel like I'm paying for the whole B*%%£y country
(I'm not obviously but......)

Yes you are unreasonable

That is a very small proportion of your salary to pay for tax

If I remember right there was an artile a few years ago about the fact that if we take all of the tax into account (vat on goods, fuel tax, insurance tax etc etc.) then we actually pay about 80% of our gross income is tax.
It worse if you own a business, then you get taxed twice.

Only read opening post, but yes, YABU.
If you want to pay no tax, it's dead easy, have no income.

Only read opening post, but yes, YABU.
If you want to pay no tax, it's dead easy, have no income.

Well if you live in Jersey you need to double check the numbers - if you are single then the first £11.5k or so is exempt from tax - if you are married the figure is higher. But if you're looking for sympathy because of your huge tax burden then I wouldn't post on a UK site. Your entire country's government spend is less than a tenth of what this country has managed to spend on futile wars.

Can't believe how much I pay... pisses me off so i try not to think about it.

Well, Nutterly, you're being a bit of both.

No one likes to pay taxes when they've no control over where it goes. This is an issue for the future in my opinion: a ground-breaking area where governments could be elected overnight with a bit of intelligent thinking.

But ... £150 on £1,000 is only 15%. That's way less than most people pay out in tax. The average is 23% to 25% on your pay scale ... so I wouldn't be too down-hearted.

Only £150? DP pays a RIDICULOUS amount each month.

I don't look any more, especially at DH's tax. I know I have to pay it, I know why it is a good thing, I just don't like to see it written down!

I think perhaps you should get a grip. Taxation is what makes for a civilised society