Encourage the government to raise the personal allowance threshold to around the 'Living Wage' and then implement a flat tax rate of around 40%. This would take many people out of the tax system so they paid no income tax at all and would keep all their earnings. Also this would streamline the tax system enabling it to be easier to implement and administrate, and remove the potential for loopholes and other tax avoidance.
Encourage the government to raise the personal allowance threshold to around the 'Living Wage' and then implement a flat tax rate of around 40%. This would take many people out of the tax system so they paid no income tax at all and would keep all their earnings. Also this would streamline the tax system enabling it to be easier to implement and administrate, and remove the potential for loopholes and other tax avoidance.
It has been said that tax itself is a form of theft -- why are taxes DEMANDED when they could be requested, for the good of all? Then there are issues of fundamental belief about how taxes taken from your pocket (and based on your work) are spent, like war taxes: should a peaceful person who works hard be forced to contribute to a war through his taxes? I think not.
Except in lifting people out of poverty, I feel there is little point discussing how much tax a government imposes, until we have a government that can be trusted to spend OUR money fairly and WISELY. In my view, that means that the government has to go, and be replaced by something like this site (although it's not perfect).
Whilst I am all for a simpler tax system and indeed would like to see a Resource based economy. Clarification what is the Living wage? Is the living wage the same for a family of five in a council house or a single person living on a country estate? We must redress the inequalities that have been built into the system first. The Land Tax proposal has merit. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_value_tax As does penalising multiple home ownership. Finally no matter how flat the tax rate. The wealthy with offshore bank accounts will be able to avoid paying even 40%. Paying themselves the Living Wage and trousering large amounts of cash equivalents by other means. Solutions?
The previous two governments have both implemented e-petition websites, and increasingly are acting on them. More and more politicians are using personal social media such as twitter more effectively. It looks like the trend is towards government by sites such as this. It will happen eventually through the course of successive governments. I don't see how slinging out the current mob and demanding immediate change will be effective or worthwhile. The sixteen people currently using this site are hardly representative of the great range of opinions held by the British public.
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