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Old 13th May 2008, 16:34   #14
dude69
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Originally Posted by MrRobin View Post
Darling says:



My calculations for as an example, a £100k salary are (Ignoring NI) --

OLD Personal Allowance of £5,435:
Gross - £100,000
Taxable - £94,565
20% Tax up to £36k - £7,200
40% Tax from £36k - £23,426
Total Tax - £30,626
NET - £69,374

NEW Personal Allowance of £6,035:
Gross - £100,000
Taxable - £93,965
20% Tax up to £35.4k - £7,080
40% Tax from £35.4k - £23,426
Total Tax - £30,506
NET - £69,494

i.e. you're £120 better off...

Has Darling fliped up AGAIN? Or am I a numpty??
No, Darling *is* a complete frolicking moron.

There are two things:

* PA increased by £600. Clearly the overall taxable income is cut by £600, so that is a cut of tax of 40% on £600 = £240
* Basic rate band narrowed by £600. This is an increase of tax from 20% to 40% = 20% net. 20% of £600 = £120

Total tax cut £120.

Where did they get these retards? They are supposed to be running the country. Hundreds of billions of pounds.

Not only did they manage to turn a tax cut into a disaster, but they bodged up the fix-up job as well.

It's very simple logic to see that if you increase the personal allowance by £600, then that's £600 less to pay 40% tax on. It's exactly the same as saying that each person has earned £600 less.

Everybody in middle income PAYE jobs knows that if they get a £600 bonus they only receive £360.

Whether you add the £600 on at the beginning, or take it off at the end, it's still a 40% tax cut on £600.

So increasing tax from 20% to 40% on that same £600 doesn't balance it out, does it?

Jesus Christ.

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