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Freelance higher education writer Andrew McGettigan explains how banking bonuses have affected the new deferment rate...
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There is a whopping great discrepancy between the figures from the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings and those on Average Weekly Earnings.
Makes me glad I'm far enough below the threshold, though if I worked full time with child benefit taken in to account it would be too close for comfort.
Also don't trust Erudio to make deferring easy for those that have previously had to pay.
To make matters clear the debt collectors want 100p in the pound.
Had the government offered a 10p in the pound discount to the affected group of debtors then they may have got a better deal for the tax payer in the sale.
This would of have undermined the ongoing future of the student loan system. Hence it is necessary to sell the loan on to a shark with teeth at a loss to maintain the illusion of student loan credibility.
J_B.
You may also like to calculate how much income tax these bankers contributed to the benefits pot too....
Another cheap shot at an easy target
Profit making businesses are not allowed to target minors for loans as the SLC did. The loophole was the government isn't profit seeking therefore the loans could be promoted and dished out to anyone regardless of ability to pay back the loan (the latest Wonga scandal for example)
As soon as the loans are sold on to private companies they have been miss - sold and should be written off ( like the Wonga loans)
If you read the article you will see that they aren't blaming bankers for everything, they are blaming the goverments change of tax rate, which resulted in companies paying bonuses later.
And I'm not sure what bankers income tax has got to do with the deferrment level for student loans.
Actually I would suggest anyone who is over the threshold to adopt these strategies!
Adjust pay so you are under the threshold in the months around deferment time and get paid more the rest of the year.
Nothing illegal about it, it is all in the regulations! It is perfectly legal to use this approach.
Just ask your employees to adjust your pay for certain months folks.
Anyone who disagrees with this might like to calculate how ex-students not paying back the loan will benefit the British economy by keeping money and VAT payments in this country rather than have the money go to the USA.
Presumably then the threshold last year would have increased by far more than otherwise.
I suppose that at least this one did not outright allege criminality of all bankers based on the purported crimes of one in a thousand.
For some reason a "banker" earning £500k seems to be expected to pay more tax than a lawyer on the same amount (and, given the bonus tax, has actually had to do so in recent years), despite virtually no-one outside the sector being quite sure what the people in those towers in the city actually do.
I did read the article and the premise is that deferral of bankers bonuses skewed the figures
This rate kicks in on annual income over £150,000 and many City workers had their bonuses delayed to benefit from the tax change, which artificially inflated the ASHE data