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Old 01-01-2017, 10:11
GreatGodPan
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From personal experience I'd put it about 15%. Get below that I'm happy, get above that I need to work on it some more

(excluding NI where naively I believe I get a return so am less concerned)


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Old 01-01-2017, 10:23
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This is exactly the sort of thing governments should be encouraging a national conversation about. But no governments have the bottle to talk straight. They prefer to treat us like infants who can't handle challenging facts.
They don't want us to know is probably more accurate. Governments must see the internet as a curse because it allows people worldwide to discuss what they'd rather we weren't discussing. Whereas before, everybody was pretty much isolated or restricted in the sense of not really having many, if any, people around them to discuss their views with, which is right up the street of every Government.
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Old 01-01-2017, 10:33
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"Far more than I want to pay but far less than I'd be happy to see AN Other paying" probably sums up the general conclusion likely to emerge from a thread like this.

It's past time people got some education on this subject and got real..."Oh I've paid in al my working life so now I'm entitled to and expect X, Y & Z"...well I'm sorry folks the five bob a week you paid in forty years ago is going no-where to pay the hundreds of pounds in cash or services you expect at this year's prices,
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Old 01-01-2017, 10:39
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"Far more than I want to pay but far less than I'd be happy to see AN Other paying" probably sums up the general conclusion likely to emerge from a thread like this.

It's past time people got some education on this subject and got real..."Oh I've paid in al my working life so now I'm entitled to and expect X, Y & Z"...well I'm sorry folks the five bob a week you paid in forty years ago is going no-where to pay the hundreds of pounds in cash or services you expect at this year's prices,
As a per centage of earnings Income Tax paid at that time (and in the '80s) was far higher than now.

Would you like today's Income Tax rates to rise massively in the likelihood that care costs are likely to soar in the next 30/40 years time when younger workers of today will need them?
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