Its not true though, businesses don't get a penny in "subsidy" to hire such workers. The benefit trap applies primarily to people with children working 16 hours a week. It is the emplo… (View Post)

No it doesn't. They still get thousands, or tens of thousands of pounds of benefits and are not going to work a single hour more than 16 because they're trapped on 16 hours a week with an 8… (View Post)

The state hasn't tackled the problem. People working 16 hours a week still get their benefits in full and still face a roughly 80%+ marginal tax rate if they work any more hours. So they're… (View Post)

My wages are triple taxed. Income Tax, Employers NIC and Employee NIC. All at the same time. Claims of double taxation as tax may have been paid decades ago (and often it was not) deserve zero sympat… (View Post)

My solution fixes that, it should be abolished and inheritance should be taxed as income instead. No more IHT. (View Post)