To happily pay an extra £2000 per year to....

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• see a GP f2f without a wait of 4 weeks and efficient onward referral as needed to sort the issue
• have my children taught by subject teachers and supported by TAs
• drive my car without hitting numerous potholes and missing road markings
• enable my elderly disabled neighbour to have more care at home (1 hour a week at the moment)
• ensure my son doesn't languish on the CAMHS waiting list for two years getting more and more broken
• pay public sector workers properly so they are not run ragged covering endless vacancies and schools and hospitals are viewed as aspirational and supportive places to work
• support government led, empowered oversight bodies of our water, rivers, trains and buses
• help the MNs on here with heart breaking experiences of seeking support with their SEN children

And on and on...all for £2k a year per FAMILY. I assume I will pay more as a higher earner. FINE. let's make it fair not equal.

Tax advisor here. Give me 3 tax avoidance loopholes that you’d close to raise serious money. Can’t name any? Guess what, they don’t exist! These are some things you could do tinkering around the edges. Put inheritance tax on pension pots. Disallow AIM investments from IHT relief. But there is no way this would raise serious cash. But the politicians trot out ‘close tax avoidance loopholes’ whenever they have an uncosted policy that they want the gullible to believe we can afford.

If you really wanted to hit tax avoidance, ban cash, just get rid of it totally, and drop the VAT rate to £10k. Not popular policies but would help close the tax gap.

I didn't say wealthy? I'm certainly not wealthy, we're very much middle earners but we're comfortable. People on minimum wage or very low wages - who are struggling to buy food and heat their homes - should not have to pay more tax.

I agree that as a society we should pay more tax, but we need a better basic income first.

Firstly.i would but secondly that figure is bullshit so please don't give it airtime!

You think this is possible if tax payers pay an extra 2k?

Yes, I’d make that sort of contribution, but I’d want to be confident that the money was not frittered.

Funding for clinical staff not administrators.
Funding for teachers and support staff,
funding for repairs to school buildings and funding per pupil. No money for academy CEOs or Ofsted.
LAs to work efficiently to repair the infrastructure of council owned property, including roads.

I know it won’t happen, but we can dream.

Yes, I would, but it’s also not true

Nope, I pay enough.

I’d be all for taking another 3% off NI and adding 5% onto basic rate of tax. That shift would slightly increase what is paid in tax on earned income and bring in additional revenue on unearned income. Also would make inheritance tax payable much more broadly applicable and I’d raise capital gains tax as well.
I think it would cost us more to do the above than pay £2k over 4 years but I’d be more in favour of it if there were clear signs wealth would be taxed alongside income

Definitely not we are not earning enough we are just at a point where we have a tiny bit of slack. In a few years sure but after all the covid issues, col, cc etc 2 grand is a hell of a lot too us

If in a position to do so, so less than £200 a month I would. Not necessarily fair of course but if affordable a no brainer. Xx

How about having an estate have the same tax free allowance as a person (so £12.5k ish currently) & everything above subject to same rate of tax as income. I don’t know what the numbers would be but surely that would make a significant amount of money. It seems like you’d always get more overall by upping taxes that hit the majority vs those that only hit very high earners.

Can't afford it sorry

The Scandinavian countries don’t sneer at the middle classes and those that have done well for themselves like they do in the UK.

We have a small business dealing with corporate companies so cross every line and every t when it comes to tax. Sick of seeing tradesmen take the mick when it comes to tax and not a thing is ever done about it.

I can’t think there are many loopholes left. Most I know of defer tax rather than avoid it entirely

If that money was guaranteed to improve services and invest in infrastructure of essential services, then, yes, yes I would. No problem

Our local takeaway is cash only and I can guarantee that most of it is not being declared. Cash, cash, cash is the issue! If the only way of getting paid was money transferred into your business bank account if would be a start.

Even on conservatives calculations (which are disputed) it’s over 4 years, so £500 a year max

I already pay that by using private education and private medical and saving the government money on top of paying many multiples of 2000 in tax over decades.

Happy for others to step up.

Yep. Cheap at the price. That figure is bs though. It wasn't endorsed by the treasury.

Which health insurance company quoted you under £2000 please? My last quote was just over £9000

I agree with this. Would be amazing if they did what the OP had posted.

Yes, I would too. Bud what makes you think you would ever get that for your £2000? Not a chance!

I’m expected to believe that although for my £50k of tax I already pay, I (and others) get terrible services, that if I pay £500 - £2000 per year more, those services will be great.

Yeah, I don’t believe that.

You can afford that. Plenty can't.

Starmer is going to price my SEN child out of the only school ( private) who will take her and I have to rely on enough benefactors existing to take her education because the state are twats and wil lfind any excuse under the moon not to.

I’d pay it in a heartbeat for all those things, but in reality I’d pay it and get none of those things!