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.

are you a government minister in disguise?

well look. From each according to ability to each according to need.

It's only right that the very wealthy pay more. Otherwise, the poorer people are actually paying MORE than you, as a percentage of their income. - that is unfair.

It is always the way that the more someone has the less they want to part with a penny of it.

Nah - 'tis only! about £150k not £300k.

actually I think they should be taking more proportionally from people like you than they do from low earners

the result of the latest budget has been to make low-paid workers (those under 13K per year) pay proportionally more of their salary in tax by the scrapping of the 10p band than people like you.

I think that if you are fortunate to earn such an enormous amount on a monthly basis you have a duty to pay more into the coffers of society to help those who are more in need. It is a moral imperative that those who have more support those who have less.

Feeling that you are paying too much in tax is totally unreasonable and morally bankrupt!

change your lifestyle then. surely you ar ein a position of relative power quite a lot, I would say to do so.

then, get over yourself.

And if you wasn't taxed, i wudnt be able to have my benefits, which is my rights. thanx xxx

Sorry for being "a bitch", but many mners earn fig all for a hard weeks work. Perhaps it might have been a better idea to have said "I am so pissed off. I have paid x % of my salary to the tax man." Lots of people would have empathised then.

if not you need to see your accountant then.

I would love to work less Flame. But mine is the only household income. I have looked at other jobs but not only are they dull but they wont employ me cos they think I'll get bored and leave cos i am overqualified.

YABU

Well said Twig!

I would hazard a guess you are coming out with approx 8K (give or take a few hundred) a month

Missed an apostrophe!

i thikn that when you consider that , as i am sure you are a regular on teh board, that a lot of mnetters do not earn probably even half of what you are paying in tax, then you are unliekly to garner much sympathy

tax is proportional.

twas ever thus

move to jersey or something, i dunno

So you'd have to take a dull job - join the club!

Don't worry about the punctuation, chicky, you are spot on.

Then live on less and save up money to give up job in a year or two.

With that amount of money you have flexibilty that a lot of people cannot afford to have.

Are you sure there is no other job that will employ you for less hours

Crying over a payslip that provides more for one month than many families have for three or more is not going to get you a lot of sympathy here.

So - if your pay is not enough for your needs - change your lifestyle! If your pay does not compensate you for loss of time with your dcs - change your lifestyle. If actually everything's ok you've just had a crap week - for goodness sake woman - eat some chocolate, go to bed early and then give away a tenth of your income to charity tomorrow. That should help!

I'm sorry but that sounds like bollocks.

If you want it to change, make it change. Go for jobs in a completely different field and then you won't be over qualified. Explain to employers why you want the "easier" job. etc etc

I'm not sure about this. Why should someone that worked hard to get a very good job have to pay more to support people that earn less than them?

If the government didn't spend money on nothing then we wouldn't need it to be that way.

I don't think taking half of what someone earns is fair at all.

My dh earns nowhere near that amount so I'm not being biased and I'm a sahm.

Just whop some more in your pension fund - that's tax free!