to think that 6000 per month is excessive for the government to take off my pay for tax?

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Surely there should be a maximum limit that each person has to pay as tax? Six grand per month in tax is just excessive imo. And that is before NI contributions etc. If the government set a maximum tax limit they would take more care over how they spent their central funds. And I wouldn't have to work so many hours away from my DCs only to have 72 bloody grand a year taken off my income to fund their mis-spending.

what a load of rubbish - you can't equate having a job with intelligence!

Yurt1, I have a similar spread of 'earners' amoung my friends, so you are not alone.

I'd rather be useful and happy than 'just' loaded

Xenia I am educated to a high level and in the past was offered a high paying job as a management consultant. I turned it down and this was pre children. I knew I wanted a family and the high level of travel and stress that went with this job did not to me seem conducive to this.

I am in the fortunate position to be able to choose to be a sahm. My children, both sons and my daughter will be encouraged to make their own choices in life and as long as these choices make them happy i've done my job well. I do not think that having a career makes one a better mother just as I don't think that being a sahm makes one a better mother either. I disagree stongly with your generalisations.

But you can be a 'successful working mother' without being a high earner. Or is success only measured by the size of your pay-packet?

Can't you see that stating such sweeping over-generalisations as the truth is really not doing your claim for uber-intelligence any good whatsoever?

I could pay a tax bill of 72K a year- by working in the City For me to do that would cost the country £300 a DAY for ds1's residential care. But hey ho at least I'd be a great role model

In Xenia's world yet Saggar.

The paypacket is the be all and end all of everyone's worth and value.

what does she supposedly do as a job?

Dh could have left the RAF and walked into a much higher paid job as a commercial pilot at any time over the last 10 or so years.

However he has a sense of duty, and stayed in the RAF.

Rattling good role model. A man who put duty ahead of money.

dinny
Xenia is exactly what she appears to be and is a very high earning and successful woman.

She is IMO talking absolutely tosh but she is not affecting a false stance. She is who she seems to be

Or his uncle who has spent all his adult life as a doctor working in the developing world, treating leprosy and TB. Earned peanuts compared to what he could have raked in as a consultant in the UK.

But he had a sense of duty.

astonishingly bright and well educated and a thoroughly decent bloke.

doing what, Pagwatch?

Lol yurt1, Xenia is a wind up I am sure of it, she is so offensive, her aim must be to provoke a reaction.
Quite comical really

surely she can't be that up her own arse for real...surely?

she is quite real

blimey

what's your job, Xenia, am intrigued....

I think she is real, just enjoys being controversial and all the reactions her ludicrous arguments provoke.

Xenia is a solicitor and runs her own commercial law firm.

She is real. I've met a few like her in RL as well. Living such an out of touch life that it's frightening. Must point out here that I've met plenty of people richer than Xenia who aren't so narrow-minded. Thinking about it met a number who were earning more than Xenia and gave up their jobs to become SAHMs or in one case a part time teacher.

I find it so so sad that some people worship money to such an extent that they lose their humanity.

Snap.

and the last time he came to tea he ended up on the floor playing role playing games with my kids, while eating ham rolls.

Nice guy

was big in the city., now a teacher

It is what my mother would describe as 'knowing the price of everything and the value of nothing'

Personally I would be depressed at being chained to the notion that the aquisition of money was my only means to happiness.
The 7.05 to Waterloo for another twenty years is tedious even if it is compensated for by the big house , the grenadines and the Aston.

McJob is as McJob does...

Agree with yurt1 and mrsz on this

TT surely if your DH suffered a head injury in a car accident, which meant he could never work again, he would have received quite a sizeable sum of compensation?#

If this is a true account of your situation, I would stress getting a better accountant. Our tax accountant is great. If you gift aid your tithe you can claim higher tax rate relief on it for a start.

yeah, same here, Yurt

Surely a life entirely centred around making money can be slightly pointless as afterall when you are gone you are gone shrouds don't have pockets to take it with you.