Clegg to push for £12.5k income tax threshold at Budget

[doodab]

You don't have to declare the father on a birth certificate. And then you run into the complexity of being a family unit but the current partner may not be the father of any / all of the children.

Yes, so they still get the same tax allowance but they can't share it. Part of making the tax system family friendly is to create incentives for families to stay together.

[AtW]

Yes, so they still get the same tax allowance but they can't share it. Part of making the tax system family friendly is to create incentives for families to stay together.

No divorces until children grow up ...

[DirtyDog]

Yes, so they still get the same tax allowance but they can't share it. Part of making the tax system family friendly is to create incentives for families to stay together.

But you'd bring it in for unmarried families who put the father on the birth certificate?

[doodab]

IR35 reviews? Put the PCG in jail?

Watching that "Scandamania" programme on telly last night he was saying how most Danes pay 50% in tax, but they're officially the happiest nation on earth (according to a UN survey). Which makes you wonder. Perhaps the issue is that we all think our public services are a waste of time and money, so resent paying for them, but perhaps if we had much better public services we wouldn't mind much higher taxes? Hmmm.

A large part of the issue is the gap between the richest and poorest in a society. The more pronounced this is, the worse things tend to be in a particular country in terms of crime, health, mental health, educational outcomes etc. It would be no surprise if self reported happiness correlated with this as well.

[doodab]

But you'd bring it in for unmarried families who put the father on the birth certificate?

Yes.

[DirtyDog]

Yes.

OK

[doodab]

OK

Well, that's me that is. I don't particularly want to get married and neither does ms doodab.

[MicrosoftBob]

If a contract review includes advice to change a contract for no other reason than to avoid tax, how is that different? PCG provide contract templates and specific advice on how to avoid tax, so how is that not deliberate steps?

The personal allowance is a deliberate scheme to avoid tax, should we jail the government for allowing a tax avoidance scheme ?

Then there is Mapeley Steps, government sanctioned offshore tax avoidance....

[Doggy Styles]

The personal allowance is a deliberate scheme to avoid tax, should we jail the government for allowing a tax avoidance scheme ?

Then there is Mapeley Steps, government sanctioned offshore tax avoidance....

ISAs, pension contributions, fuel-efficient cars, giving up smoking...

Even being unemployed is tax avoidance of sorts.

Bang them all up.

[AtW]

The personal allowance is a deliberate scheme to avoid tax, should we jail the government for allowing a tax avoidance scheme ?

It's not a tax avoidance scheme if it was clearly intended by Parliament.