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.

I'm not focussed on money - really. I only work the hours i do because that is what is needed in my job and my company were so good to me over the period of tragedy that I feel I owe them something back (but do realise that i owe my DCs too - it is just so hard to get the balance).

yes, I am having a crap week and i am sorry if i made others feel bad by insensitively wording my post. I was just so upset that the tax i paid could have been spent on getting my DD operated on privately rather than seeing her suffer due to the NHS being so badly managed. But that is a selfish thought.

I will just go to bed I think. Then seek absolution for my selfishness in the morning.

K999 .. ummm out of the 8K (ish) per month she nets

or most companies that pay those kind of salaries offer PHI as a benefit, it is rather unusual not to have one at that salary level

Isn't the 40% tax less than £40k? I thought it was more like £33k these days?

what notice did you get of the op being cancelled? Ring up PALS at the hospital on Tuesday and make a fuss about multiple cancellations.

Op cancellation I give sympathy for. Not for working oodles of hours when you don't have to. No-one has to work 100 hours a week unless they are being paid sweat shop rates.

Our income isn't huge, but it is definitely above many. We can't afford to fix the car window so it is propped up with a peg. That is our choice, we have chosen the peg route over the stopping internet for a couple of months whilst we save enough to get it fixed route.

You have chosen working stupid hours and paying lots of tax over a "dull" job and being with your children.

Tis this whole free will thing

so if 6k will pay for your DD's operation, why don't you pay for it?

Twigg - my health insurance only covers certain treatments. My DD's condition is not considered significant enough for them to treat within the terms of the policy. Even though she is in frequent pain.

I'm really confused to how someone can work 100 per week when their child is seriously ill and needs an op, skewed priorities I think.

CIS actually a lot of the money they take from us is spent on nothing. The money is mis managed all the way from the top to the bottom. It's a farce.

My father used to work at the local council and he saw a lot of it go on there, he knows a few of the people in high positions in parliament and knows from what he's seen them do.

Hope you get a good night's sleep

this thread can only ever end in tears.

I have an empty soap powder box into which I stick fivers for a rainy day. Perhaps you need a similar system.

joke? right?

40% tax for salaries of £36,000 or more. Jodie, how are you so sure that all the money the government takes in tax is ill-spent?

I think this is a wind up...

Feed the troll tuppence a bag...

I can't feel too much sympathy as I don't even earn that much in a year.

when you say there should be a maximum limit anyone should pay in tax - clearly that is rubbish and you know it. How unfair would that be? sorry you are having difficulties with your dd but you need to get real.

tootaxed then you have an odd health insurance if it won't pay for an operation that you can get on the NHS

this thread is becoming very doubtful

I got a week's notice Northern. She has pre-op checks las t Monday. op was meant to be this coming Thursday. Was a letter waiting for me when I came home from work on Thursday saying that op had been cancelled. No explanation given. i didn't know about PALS. i will contact them - thank you

Bluestocking - as I said in previous posts. It's clear anyway from the waste on mps, useless thinktanks the list goes on.

Im sorry but you earn how much?

And, your child is in constant pain?

And you are WAITING for an NHS place?

Give your child to me, i will also work my bollocks off to pay for its surgery.

You have the bloody money - pay for the op woman! What the hell is wrong with you?

Surely this is a troll.

Twigg - a lot of health insurances are like that. It is AXA PPP. Most corporate health cover is only for emergency and major operations.

you are trying to get sympathy for paying tax, when there are some people, who can't even afford to feed everyone every month.

and it's not because we didn't work hard or get good degrees, most people are not as fortunate as yourself and it would do you well to remember that and count yourself lucky.

very insensitive to come on here moaning about paying tax. why shouldn't you pay? you can bloody well afford it.

i'm sorry your dd is unwell but i'm sure you could afford to go to a private hospital and just pay for the op.

Don't be ridiculous, it has to go somewhere

like these poor people