Where does our tax money go?

Enterprise_1701C

A lot of it goes on funding an nhs that is being taken for a ride by a lot of health tourists.

And what right someone that lives in Luxembourg has to question what we do with our money I have no idea.

BobQ

Having low tax rates is all very well but if you have an economy in which companies (eg Anazon) do not pay their fair share of corporation tax, citizens avoid paying income tax (by various clever and barely legal tax avoidance measures and cash in hand deals) and avoid VAT by accepting cash in hand payments, it does not matter what the rates are as they do not pay them.

Mistermeaner

whats in other @ 15%?

Is protection just police or is that MI* etc?

It could be argued that pensions, health and welfare are all 'welfare' just in various guises - this is where we need to cut IMO

Thrugelmir

BobQ wrote: »

Having low tax rates is all very well but if you have an economy in which companies (eg Anazon) do not pay their fair share of corporation tax,

With a small population low Corporation tax rates aren't really an issue either. Hopefully the EU will address this by standardising rates across Europe. Stopping all the under table dealing that goes on.

Yah_Boo_Sux

wotsthat wrote: »

Foreigners are bad enough but traitors who move abroad are worse.

Especially those spreading propaganda whilst deliberately deceiving others AND with questionable morals. Which I note despite being asked before, YOU have no problem with - and in fact seem to encourage.

steampowered

Here is a pie chart which shows exactly where the money goes.

British people just love to complain. Whether the complaint is factually justified or not seems to be irrelevant.

I honestly think that people have no idea how things work in the rest of the world. If you live in another country for a few years - especially somewhere a bit further away than France - you'll soon appreciate that the UK is great in many areas (while realising that we are behind in other areas you might not have considered).

steampowered

A few of these complaints fall away when you look at them by comparison to other countries. For example ..

gfplux wrote: »

Poor infrastructure, roads, rail, airports bridges etc.

That's just nonsense. The UK's infrastructure is top notch.

NHS is underfunded.

Yet the UK is one of the only countries in the world to have a public health system like the NHS. France certainly doesn't have that and operates a largely private system. If the NHS is so bad, would your friends agree that it should be abolished? If not, they should admit that actually it is a pretty good system.

Corporation Tax is too high.

The UK has one of the lowest corporation tax rates of any developed country. Look at the table at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_tax.

GreatApe

The UK is a fairly well run country.

Its easy to complain but most things in the UK are cheap abundant and high quality.

gfplux

Yah_Boo_Sux wrote: »

Maybe the extra 5% funding compared to say Germany would improve all of your perceived but unproven "problems".

As you yourself say though, tax is already thought to be too high, so how do you think the UK public would feel about that rise?
You see?
You may indeed see and hear grumbles - try asking those grumbling how they feel about paying more (you won't even have to mention the word "tax") to get those grumbles resolved.
I suspect the answer you get would include the word "off".

Perceived problems, now that is interesting.

Perhaps the tax take should increase for Company's.
I just pointed out that Britain has less to spend on society. If you are happy with everything I am very pleased for you.

wotsthat

GreatApe wrote: »

The UK is a fairly well run country.

Its easy to complain but most things in the UK are cheap abundant and high quality.

When a government takes 36% of GDP of one of the planet's richest nations as tax and spends all of it plus copious borrowing on top we should be expecting excellence. Fairly good or not bad isn't good enough.