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?

Yes, MrsSS, but that would be because your DP earns a ridiculous sum each month.

Income tax, at least, is relative. It pains Nutterly just as much as it pains him, I'm sure.

I think income tax should be abolished, then we can tarmac our own roads.

Not when she's paying 15R and he's paying 40% on most of it, desiderata.

Yes, I have some sympathy on reflection. £1k per month is not a large amount to earn, it seems almost unjust to be taxed on it

15%

MrsSeanSlater - is your dh rich. Shall we have a competition?

Am pissed. Ignore me.

No, not what I'd call rich at all.

In serious mode now, I can't quite recollect when 40% kicks in but I think I am right that we have a relatively low taxation burden in this country?

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i pay loads m dh pays loads and my son pays loads.

i have never been resentful of the taz and NI i pay

but iam recently sounding more and more like a middleaged ignorant working class tory ( and if you know me you will knw thats a bad thing) i hear myself syaing things like " i am sick to death of being screed atevery fucking turn by this fucking country"

congestion charge
road tax
toll roads
speedcameras
no nhs dentists - and i have to pay £65 a fucking appointment just to keep my kids on the books of some swanky dentist they should get for god damned free....becuase i pay for that very privilage dont i?

but local councillors can fuck off for months without attending a meeting and getting paid "expenses"

everyone is on the screw.

YABU

Taxes are to support whole countries infrastructure, which benefits you and others and is paart of being a human and living in benefit of humane society.

It is late. pease do not hold me to this post tomorrrow.

But still, taxes enable all sorts of really important things, think of it like you are able to live in a country where if you get sick or hurt someone will help you. if you want you dcs to read then someone will teach them, if you want to get rid of your rubbish someone will take it.

Hell I know the individual componants don't always work well BUT the idea of taxes is good, right and necessary.

You should prob pay more

i would love to earn enough to pay tax at all

YABU- I don't think that you paying much at all

Slur
Zippi you can pay mine!

oh ffs to all the glaringly obvious typos and misspells.

bah.

tyaca - no don't walk away, I am curious re what is on your mind...

well i think the earn enough bit suggests i couldnt

I earn nothing. I suspect that means I should be doing the night wakings, the cleaning, the cooking, the education and on and on.

Zippi mate, s'ok the point is we all work we all need to live.

Taxes should make up the difference between ceo's uber-inflated wages and everybodies --else's- peoples's circumstances. 'Cept course that is bollocks obviously.

did I say earlier to ignore me? I should have mentioned that I'm having an off night

I earn £12k a year before tax and social security. The threshold for tax is, as someone stated 11.5k. I pay £100 a month tax, so I pay 1200 a year tax PLUS on top of that I also have to pay however much income tax on top of that at the end of each financial year.

I know I'm being unreasonable when I compare it to others. I know its not a lot of tax compared to what others pay, but for me, in my current situation it is a lot.

SO in Jersey do you pay income tax at the end of the financial year? what kind of tax is the 150 then?

I agree - I think percentages are unhelpful sometimes and that 'absolutes' are more pertinent. £12k is not much money and hence the tax is more keenly felt...than say someone on uber amounts who pays vast sums of taxation (but lets face it, still has a high net income so doesn't 'suffer' as it were)

if you dont want to pay tax then hong kong is a place to go exh is there and pays next to nothing on a masive income

I'm not hot on the names of the taxes. The £150 comes out my money from work, and is mentioned on my paycheck. At the end of the financial year, I have a tax return to fill in and it tells me I need to pay x amount tax by April I think it is

and the tax return doesn't take into account the money that comes out my wages.