I’m perfectly aware it affects us all and I don’t disagree with your view of it. I was chatting to a neighbour the other day who thought pensioners shouldn’t pay tax. That seems a prevailing view how… (View Post)

It doesn’t necessarily show pensioner incomes have increased significantly. It will certainly show the effect of fiscal drag due to the lack of increase of the personal allowance. (View Post)

Yes it will, probably by ten years. However they won’t do anything to arrest the growth of the benefits side of the welfare bill which they should also tackle. However SKS lost that battle early on. (View Post)

Yet state benefits, that are also income, are not subject to tax. They should be. (View Post)

I suspect they will tolerate it longer than the US. (View Post)