To ask what you'll be doing to avoid the Labour tax hikes

[OptimismvsRealism]

Pension contributions
Gift aid
Selling my shares now while CGT is relatively low

What really worries me is that all the professionals we actually need to want to be here will just fuck off elsewhere, though.

It's not like we're knee deep in hospital doctors.

No totally different. As Switzerland is a far less mobile population. We found most people had moved no more than a few miles from where they were brought up. They mixed with their family and school friends. They had no time to socialise with someone they had met as an adult.

It's nothing to do with the taxes. There's a shortage of professionals because of population aging, and we don't want immigrants do we

What growth did we see under the Tories? Unless you’re Michelle Mone, of course. Public services decimated, which affect us all apart from the super-rich. Like PP I’m happy to contribute to a fairer society.

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We are asset rich through a life of hard work. It’s going to be grim. We won’t leave as we have a fabulous life (paid for from earnings of which we hand back 50% to the government to squander as they see fit.). We pay enough.
So we will increase pension contributions if that helps, have put property for DC into trust, exploit every tax loophole known to man and cut back on charitable givings.

After all now that labour is here who needs charity?

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For a start - I am going to stop donating to my son’s government school - and we will use these funds towards my daughter’s increased private school fees (moved her there for Sen needs).

I will start claiming government benefits that we are entitled to - but we never claimed as felt morally we did not need these savings. Like I am a ceoliac and entitled to products on prescription but think it’s daft uk tax payers pay for these, also entitled to disability benefits as can’t work but hubby supports me and felt I didn’t need to claim.

Also, I forgot to add - I am not going to be so quick to use private health insurance as that puts premiums up so will consider using NHS services more.

This is my experience in the UK, people happy with their school/uni friends and not willing to make the effort to make more. It could be us, but several foreign friends share this experience.

I won’t be doing any tax dodging either. I have felt for a long time that we need to increase taxation if we want to live in a decent environment. You think we pay high taxes? Check out France; then take a look at their roads, healthcare and education. You get what you pay for!!

@CasaBianca That surprises me. Like many British people I do not live where I grew up and all my friends I see regularly I made as an adult. Makes me wonder if you live somewhere quite insular?

I'll happily pay more.

Happy to pay extra in taxes if it means a functioning public sector. Husband is the same. Both well paid (not 6 digits but above average) and in professional occupations. Cultural differences I think exist here between north and south of uk.

I’ll happily pay my fair share.

@OptimismvsRealism I'm selling a lot of my shares too, I've got a capital loss waiting to cover the gain. Knowing that the Labour Party would eventually come to power I also downsized from a large house to a flat and have given capital away to my family over the past few years, now mostly more than seven years ago.
I don't mind paying a fair level of tax and would never dream of doing anything illegal, but I'm not prepared to give away the money which I have worked long and hard for so that the Labour Party can give it to fit people who are not willing to work. Nor am I prepared to finance over inflation pay rises to relatively low skilled union workers.

Clearly, you’re not going to accept that some taxes need to rise in order to fund public services that have been stripped to the bone over the past 14-years. Surveys actually show that a majority of people would be happy to pay a bit more income tax for more money could go into the NHS etc. Despite that, Labour has no intention to increase income tax for those on 20%, or 40%. You’re just going to have to suck up the knowledge that your time is done for a long time. The Tories and their supporters have gone too far with asset stripping the country. As a result they/you will be irrelevant for a long time.

We only get 60k between us, but I'm still happy to pay more to get more. The education system, NHS and the police force are all on their knees.

Your comprehension skills leave much to be desired as I asked the question. Are you always this tiresome?

We are so called middle class with a reasonable income, and are not happy to pay more tax. We would however be happy to see multimillionaire companies and business people being made to pay what they should, and think the ridiculous pay increases to train drivers etc are completely unjustified, with lots more of the same to come no doubt thanks to Labour.

With a slick website too no doubt. The NHS is amazing when it functions as it should, and generally you pay to fast track to the same consultants through private, which I’m on the fence about.

I really feel grateful for consultants like you, who are dedicated to their vocation although bear the brunt of patient frustrations, and everything else that goes with trying to do their jobs but have all the bureaucracy and politics to navigate. I really hope things improve for everyone - there should be no need for private health care in a progressive society.

@Usercyzabc My DP has a rare condition. You can't actually pay to see someone privately who understands the condition. The specialist he sees covers a quarter of England. When he was first diagnosed the only specialist was in Edinburgh and everyone had to travel there.
People think they can buy anything, but it is not true.

Likewise. It’s a sign of a civilised society to pay into a pot to make sure everyone has access to health and social care. I’d rather that than dog eat dog, every man for themselves.

Absolutely. And any one of us might need an ambulance, fire brigade or police at any point. Money can’t buy you emergency services.

Absolutely; it's only being speculated that there could be tax rises. Why not spend your energy lobbying the government to do something about the almost £40bn in tax that HMRC fails to collect annually?

There is no private Emergency Department in the UK which I pointed out before.

I have a condition which one of my DC inherited and we had to go private for this very reason, I have a family member who had to travel abroad for a related genetic condition they weren’t able to help because of specialisms, so not money can’t buy everything but it helps. I do not think it’s fair of course, medical treatment should be accessible to everyone irrespective of income.

The tax burden is the highest for seventy years and those on £67k plus (top 10%) have had big tax increases since 2010 and everyone else reductions. So hitting those on £100k who already have effective taxes at the upper end of 6% plus as loss of single person allowance and indeed over 70% if they have 9% student loan tax and who don't get the 30 free hours (due to "high" earnings) and of course don't even get child benefit would be particularly unfair on them as they often have had to move to London and pay massive rents or mortgages so can end up with less left over than people on lower incomes.

Those people who would happily pay more tax you can give extra to HMRC. You can even pay off parts of the national debt or if you have spare money I am sure lots of mumsnetters would love to receive it.