Artist Emin may quit UK over tax

[Waldorf]

It sounds so simple, raise taxes for the wealth creators and get them to pay for everything!

This will not work, they will either leave the UK until the situation improves, limit their income to under the limit or pack in and stop creating further wealth, just a crazy idea.

[minestrone]

As Arsehole Wenger said there are going to be shed loads of premiership footballers heading to Spain soon to take advantage of their 24% ( I think ) tax they charge.

[threaded]

She's moving to France to escape tax?

Yes, tax in France is lower than the UK.

Even in Denmark, tax is lower than the UK now.

[Board Game Geek]

Perhaps we pay higher taxes in the UK for our World Class..

• Healthcare System
• Transport Infrastructure
• Education System
• Police Force

How dy'a like dem puppies ?

[Tarquin Farquhar]

It sounds so simple, raise taxes for the wealth creators and get them to pay for everything!

This will not work, they will either leave the UK until the situation improves, limit their income to under the limit or pack in and stop creating further wealth, just a crazy idea.

If at least 4 higher-rate taxpayers stay, for every 1 who leaves, it will be a net gain for the exchequer. Experience suggests that the overwhelming majority of higher-rate taxpayers will not leave, only a few will but they will make a lot of noise.

Threaded, you are correct of course but they won't want to believe it.

[Paddy]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8289295.stm

She's not the only one...

Considering most of her income has come from public grants; she is a fine one to talk.

[sasguru]

It sounds so simple, raise taxes for the wealth creators and get them to pay for everything!

This will not work, they will either leave the UK until the situation improves, limit their income to under the limit or pack in and stop creating further wealth, just a crazy idea.

This nonsense cliched argument is constantly peddled by special interest groups and is a pile of bollux.
Germany creates more wealth than the UK (documented fact) and its taxes are higher (documented fact).
So lets put this crap argument to bed once and for all.

HTH.

[Spacecadet]

This nonsense cliched argument is constantly peddled by special interest groups and is a pile of bollux.
Germany creates more wealth than the UK (documented fact) and its taxes are higher (documented fact).
So lets put this crap argument to bed once and for all.

HTH.

What would help in this country is if taxes weren't wasted on wars no one really wanted to get involved in, nuclear defence systems we don't need any more, ID cards which take us back 50 years, NHS IT programmes which are never going to finish (let alone finish late) and ******* duck houses.
In the mean time we've got students finishing uni 10's of thousands of in debt thanks to fees introdced by a so called left wing party, generational unemployment with still nothing being done to seriously tackle it resulting in huge social segration and other issues and a public purse thats raped by Browns assumptions of no more "boom and bust"

If the government could get its priorities right it might have a moral stand point when it comes to taxation

[TinTrump]

What would help in this country is if taxes weren't wasted on wars no one really wanted to get involved in, nuclear defence systems we don't need any more, ID cards which take us back 50 years, NHS IT programmes which are never going to finish (let alone finish late) and ******* duck houses.

Bravo, well said!

I also agree with nomadd except, er, I've always thought Ms Emin's quite shaggable . She's got this nervous reaction to being photographed so she always screws up her face. I'm not selling this view, am I?

[sasguru]

:
I also agree with nomadd except, er, I've always thought Ms Emin's quite shaggable . She's got this nervous reaction to being photographed so she always screws up her face. I'm not selling this view, am I?

She used to be my neighbour (as in a couple of streets away), so I used to see in in the local Tesco Express.
She's actually even more like a wasp's backside in real life.

HTH