NHS Tax

dadtobe

Hi,

If say there was a proposal to introduce an NHS Tax say £5 a month to specifically go on or to the NHS would this be welcome or not? I can't see any other way of the NHS getting the funding it needs.

Browntoa

It's called national insurance and income tax

It's also called Get rid of some of the layers of management and get rid of the trusts and their duplication of roles and admin teams .

DiggerUK

National Insurance Contributions is how NHS funding started. Further sums also come from general taxation.
The employers will start 8itching like billyo if an increase in NI is how it is achieved. Posters here will start 8itching at anything that means a penny more is taken from them.

Closing down tax loopholes of those who can afford is top of my list..._

Matt_L

Im all for paying extra into the NHS so instead of raising the tax fresh hold next year to 11,500 maybe to it to 11,495. That £5 then must only be spent on the NHS....

dadtobe

Thanks Matt and other posters for the opinion.

NI also pays for MA, SSP etc

That would be another suggestion, wasting money on procurement, contractors and so on.

Thrugelmir

Or stop NHS tourists arriving in this country. With already advanced medical conditions that require very expensive treatment.

Linton

Or remove the upper earnings limit on employee NI. People with income in the 40% tax band and higher only pay a 2% marginal NI rate which removes half the extra tax.

Linton

Thrugelmir wrote: »

Or stop NHS tourists arriving in this country. With already advanced medical conditions that require very expensive treatment.

This may be a sensible thing to do but sadly the cost is marginal compared with the NHS deficit.

dadtobe

Thrugelmir wrote: »

Or stop NHS tourists arriving in this country. With already advanced medical conditions that require very expensive treatment.

Stop getting your figures from the Mail. Health tourism is minor in comparison regardless of what those rags tell you.

Moto2

They'd only use the extra tax to reduce what went in from the general pot
Same thing would have happened had the National Lottery proceeds gone to it.

Flugelhorn

£5 per month per head would significantly make a difference to GP practices.

Average capitation payment is about £130 a year - or 35p a day