Why pay tax?

Cpu2007

I thought tax on your salary is paid as it goes to support your pension.
What happens if a person works for 5 years, pay taxes and then moves to another country? is all the tax paid throughout the years gone?

zygurat789

Cpu2007 wrote: »

I thought tax on your salary is paid as it goes to support your pension.
What happens if a person works for 5 years, pay taxes and then moves to another country? is all the tax paid throughout the years gone?

Your thoughts were not correct.
Taxation pays for all government expenditure with no ring-fencing.

Cpu2007

so what is it that goes on the pension? the NI tax?

dzug1

Cpu2007 wrote: »

I thought tax on your salary is paid as it goes to support your pension.
What happens if a person works for 5 years, pay taxes and then moves to another country? is all the tax paid throughout the years gone?

In principle they get a deferred right to a pension in this country - though not until they have worked 10 years. 5 years they would get nothing


But state pension is not the only thing taxes and NI are spent on. You can hardly say that they got nothing at all in exchange

dzug1

Cpu2007 wrote: »

so what is it that goes on the pension? the NI tax?

Money raised by any taxation. No specific 'pot' of money, just money.