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

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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.

It's not like we're knee deep in hospital doctors. We're not knee-deep in carers, nurses, teachers either. And I doubt whether many of them will be in a position to up their pension contributions or sell their shares.

Nothing. I earn £65K with a great pension.

I have a good NHS doctors and dentist

I have access to great public transport

I don't need schools but also surrounded by great ones.

I'll happily pay for that.

I'm about to play an absolute blinder and get made redundant. Take THAT, Mr taxman.

Absolutely nothing. Decent societies and infrastructures cost money and I would rather live in a society where I pay more tax and we have money invested in schools, hospitals, transport, fair wages and services.

DP and I earn more and therefore should pay more, for us it's that simple. Plus both of us remember what it was like to not earn as much so we will not be pulling the ladder up behind us.

Well I just hope for your sake that the payment isn’t over £30k…

Yes but in the original response they don't take that middle ground - they told someone to leave the country. they were at the very least insinuating it was wrong.

It's not legally wrong. But it's not morally right.

The 'highly mobile people in medicine' are far more likely to be retained as a result of wage increases that help to reverse the effects of below-inflation pay rises over the years. And what do you need in order to pay health professionals a decent wage? Oh, yes, fairer tax contributions from the better off.

Tax is good. I'm proud to pay it. I'm only at the basic rate but I would gladly see that go up, provided that the rich and privileged are required to pay a fair rate.

I won't. I'll pay my taxes like a responsible member of society. Good lord.

And we are all too skint due to ridiculous housing costs in this country to pay such high amounts of tax. Housing is our biggest problem by a mile.

I saw the writing on the wall and already left the country. Why play a loosing game in the UK?

I wanted the best for my kids, and the ability for us as a family to succeed. The UK can't provide that.

I disagree. Just because it's legally right, doesn't make it morally right.

Rich people will always say they will fuck off. They rarely do.
In the meantime lots of low paid workers have stopped working and everyone is up in uproar about how no one wants to work anymore.
We all have choices. Do what you want and stop bleating about it. Rich people seem the biggest moaners around. It is very boring.

Starmer has confirmed that the tax rises won't be on income tax or NI, so many/most people won't be immediately impacted at all.

Only rich people get redundancy payments over this amount. You should be taxed on it then.

The bankers bonus cap is gone too so the type of banker who could to afford to pack up their whole families and move them to another country cause they don't want to pay more tax just got another I centive to stay.

I’m also happy to pay more. We’re very comfortable and have done well over the past few years, while poorer people have suffered awfully. I think it’s only fair that we who can afford it should now take the baton. Our lives will still be comfortable, but if we have to forfeit a holiday a year, or keep the car for a couple more years then it’s not really a major hardship.

No but it's not very nice. Weird how it compares to NL.

Nothing.

And within my extended friendship group of mostly middle class professionals in London, absolutely no one would leave the country.

"I saw the writing on the wall and already left the country. Why play a loosing game in the UK?

I wanted the best for my kids, and the ability for us as a family to succeed. The UK can't provide that."

Where did you go and what tax do you pay now that means you're not playing a losing game?

Dont be silly. As someone who has worked in pensions all my life, I've seen a fair few "normal people" I.e. gas engineers getting over £30k redundancy. Anything over 30k usually gets put into a pension anyway.

Where did you go to?

I'm nowhere near comfortable but also happy to pay more for a functioning society and public services.

Anyone who doesn't want our country to have better access to doctors, better funded schools and so on wants a failing country for selfish reasons. What is the downside to using those hypothetical higher taxes to ensure our society is better?

Just out of curiosity, what is the maximum extra you’re happy to pay per year?

Same here but the South West not London.