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Excellent point Tony. When you add up the duty on 20 fags a day, smokers pay £1400 extra in tax per year. Assuming they smoke for 30 years before they start needing significant treatment, I reckon they have paid for it.
And just why are we "due to pay" then expat? The only rationale for taxation is that we cannot expect to receive certain things from the state unless we are prepared to chip in financially for those things. Its a tad unfair to expect people to chip in on that basis then to deny them the very thing they have contributed towards on a technicality. Well at least it is on our planet, do they view things differently in that parallel dimension of yours? And is there still no tax on tree-hugging in expatonia?
I pay tax in order to avoid being locked up in a small cell with a large man.
There will come a time when tax like everything else has to relate to the quality of provision of services that are received in return.
Let us face it there is little responsibility taken for the delivery of public services. They dont even have to provide proper sets of accounts.
Let us not forget EU open doors immigration benefits IT contractors more than anyone
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