Where does our tax money go?

gfplux

economic wrote: »

go read up Laffers curve

I understand the laffers curve. Your point is well taken but the tax take in a Britain is lower than France. Are you saying both personal and company tax in the U.K. Is so high that tax avoidance is endemic?
I don't agree with that. You are entitled as I am to your opinion.

gfplux

Yah_Boo_Sux wrote: »

An update on your concerns over UK lamb?
Since that seemed to bother you so much not long ago that you made numerous posts.
Well, so far at least it seems that your concerns over UK lamb were unfounded.

From the end of April:

https://www.farminguk.com/News/Boost-to-British-farmers-as-UK-imports-substantially-less-lamb_46305.html


From March:

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/15-million-boost-for-uk-lamb-exports

Thank you for the update. However it is a little early as Britain has not yet left the EU.
Please keep checking the issue for me and let me know of any significant news, thank you.

gfplux

chucknorris wrote: »

I am not a tax expert, but isn't Luxemburg a bit of a tax haven? If so, I would think that most people who move there, would definitely be able to afford to live here, but have moved because of their good financial status, don't you think?

I agree with you. You clearly are not a tax export. Do a little research, please.

gfplux

A_Pict_In_A_Past_Life wrote: »

Ah, but you may not dislike the UK as much as the OP so obviously does from their posts.

Which really makes one wonder why the number of posts from the OP in a UK forum?
Do they not have forums in Luxembourg, elsewhere in the low countries or in mainland Europe I wonder?
I saw this poster elsewhere described as a propagandist; I can see why.

Isn't that called bullying?

chucknorris

gfplux wrote: »

I agree with you. You clearly are not a tax export. Do a little research, please.

I know enough about my tax situation to legally mitigate my taxes, thanks, I don't need to know anything about Luxembourg's taxes, I have no intention of living there.

A_Medium_Size_Jock

gfplux wrote: »

Isn't that called bullying?

No.
It is called a statement of fact.

Just because you happen not to like it or disagree with it does not make it bullying.

The post directly above however where you demand of a poster "Do a little research" may be described as bullying.

wotsthat

gfplux wrote: »

Wow, I am not sure what you call that type of comment.

Irony. Don't worry the forum police cadets have reported it and I'm hoping it'll lead to the development of an irony smilie.

chucknorris

wotsthat wrote: »

Irony. Don't worry the forum police cadets have reported it and I'm hoping it'll lead to the development of an irony smilie.

I was amused that a few posters seemed to think that you were being serious.

chucknorris

A_Medium_Size_Jock wrote: »

No.
It is called a statement of fact.

Just because you happen not to like it or disagree with it does not make it bullying.

The post directly above however where you demand of a poster "Do a little research" may be described as bullying.

The strange thing was that I only posted that because I felt sorry for him, because it seemed that most were picking on him, now I know why they were.

GreatApe

wotsthat wrote: »

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.

We do have excellence we just dont want to call it that

That share of GDP the government spends/borrows is not the important metric, the important metric is how much goods and services we can buy (or get for 'free' from the government) with a typical uk income.

By that metric we are near the top of the tables especially when you exclude the 'lucky' countries which have high gdp/capita due to high natural resources/capita places like norway/qatar/kuwait etc