As a self-employed tradesman earning £40 per hour and working 8 hour days everyday of a 253 working day year he'd earn £80,960. He'd therefore be paying higher rate tax on £960. He would end up paying £432 in tax on that income instead of the £384 he's presumably paying now.
“I’d like to call out Labour as liars. I am one of the people he will tax more”
This audience member, who earns over £80,000, criticises the taxation promises in the Labour Party manifesto. #bbcqtpic.twitter.com/jKJtz2QlqL
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Let's be clear... that's a massive tax hike of £48 per year. Completely unacceptable!
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Government stats - he's comfortably in the top 5% of earners if what he says is true.pic.twitter.com/QtgG9u14Lw
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Yes exactly that. Good bit of actual facts. And frankly people over £50k should pay more. That is double the average and would be my starting point. Maybe £33k even. Very wealthy though need to pay a lot more.
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The big difference he won't benefit directly from that. Other people will. A lot of people mid 40 plus will have benefitted from a free education and are at the level they are at because of it. I won't use the word selfish but many would
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Why would the bbc publish something - which is what this is - which is factually incorrect to the point of ridicule?
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If you want Question Time edited to exclude false claims it’s going to be shorter than a commercial.
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Most people I know are breaking there backs for 20k a year or less. Don’t hear them complaining.
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