Should the UK have Tax (and income) transparency

michaels

Yes - it would help with evasion, benefits cheating and gender pay inequality

Mistermeaner wrote: »

What's your total state funded income from your gaming of the system? Can you also provide your name and address as I would like to send you an invoice so I can reclaim some of my 35k of tax from this year off you to help provision for future of my son

I get wtc, ctc and child benefit commensurate with working full time and having 3 kids. Oh and 200 in interest income.

Seems you agree that full disclosure so that those who are gaming the system can be observed is what is needed.

Mistermeaner

No - It is between me and my employer and would only lead to jealousy and crime

michaels wrote: »

I get wtc, ctc and child benefit commensurate with working full time and having 3 kids. Oh and 200 in interest income.

Seems you agree that full disclosure so that those who are gaming the system can be observed is what is needed.

I voted no on basis of income from working being private between employer and employee but I think spending of public money inc benefits and public sector employees should be made public.

Mistermeaner

No - It is between me and my employer and would only lead to jealousy and crime

And I also need your name and address

michaels

Yes - it would help with evasion, benefits cheating and gender pay inequality

Mistermeaner wrote: »

I voted no on basis of income from working being private between employer and employee but I think spending of public money inc benefits and public sector employees should be made public.

So income could be private but tax paid to the state should be public?

chucknorris

Yes - it would help with evasion, benefits cheating and gender pay inequality

I voted yes, but I forgot about jealousy and the problems that it can cause. It doesn't matter on an anonymous forum if people know how much you have, but in real life, privacy can and often does matter.

Mistermeaner

No - It is between me and my employer and would only lead to jealousy and crime

michaels wrote: »

So income could be private but tax paid to the state should be public?

No. Income received from the state should be public.

chucknorris

Yes - it would help with evasion, benefits cheating and gender pay inequality

Mistermeaner wrote: »

No. Income received from the state should be public.

I don't mind my salary being public, but I wouldn't want my dividend and rental income to be public information.

CLAPTON

Yes - it would help with evasion, benefits cheating and gender pay inequality

Mistermeaner wrote: »

No. Income received from the state should be public.

why would that be ?

wotsthat

I prefer privacy. I don't even let HMRC adjust my tax code for pension payments and prefer to collect the rebate via a self assessment - I don't want my employer to see how hard I'm saving up to leave.

I'd be interested in a system where an annual statement was sent out which detailed income, benefits received, tax paid and compared against my share of government spending. Just with a little note at the bottom for the 'I've paid in mob' to clarify that if the balance is negative then someone else has stepped in to pay their share or the government has borrowed.

PasturesNew

It's meaningless guff unless there's an actual point to it.

I don't disagree with the concept, but I feel it'd just be more data/statistics that wouldn't actually lead to change... well, not in my lifetime, so not interested .... we've had equal pay etc since the 70s allegedly and still it doesn't happen.

On the whole it's most companies .... that do it. Even those that shouldn't (e.g. I bet if you had those figures for, say, solicitors dealing in Pay Law they'd show that the fellas earn more and get promoted more easily).