High income earner tax - child benefit

Jimeji · 27 March 2023 at 7:38PM

From what I understand this charge was introduced in 2013, with the threshold at £50,000. Today, in 2023, the threshold is still £50,000.

How on earth do the Tories get away with this nonsense?

Dazed_and_C0nfused · 27 March 2023 at 7:40PM

Jimeji said:

From what I understand this charge was introduced in 2013, with the threshold at £50,000. Today, in 2023, the threshold is still £50,000.

How on earth do the Tories get away with this nonsense?

Quite easily by all accounts.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election/2019/results

Jimeji · 27 March 2023 at 7:46PM

Dazed_and_C0nfused said:

Jimeji said:

From what I understand this charge was introduced in 2013, with the threshold at £50,000. Today, in 2023, the threshold is still £50,000.

How on earth do the Tories get away with this nonsense?

Quite easily by all accounts.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election/2019/results

Suspect things would be very different now. Your article is from nearly 4 years ago if you hadn’t noticed.

Jimeji · 27 March 2023 at 7:48PM

What is the logic In two parents who both earn £49,000 not being penalised, but one parent earning £50,000 being penalised?

TadleyBaggie · 27 March 2023 at 7:49PM

The £10 state pension Christmas bonus was brought in in the 1970's...almost 50 years later it is £10.

How does Labour/Tories/Labour/Tories/Labour/ConLib/Tories get away with nonsense?

Dazed_and_C0nfused · 27 March 2023 at 7:55PM

Jimeji said:

Dazed_and_C0nfused said:

Jimeji said:

From what I understand this charge was introduced in 2013, with the threshold at £50,000. Today, in 2023, the threshold is still £50,000.

How on earth do the Tories get away with this nonsense?

Quite easily by all accounts.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election/2019/results

Suspect things would be very different now. Your article is from nearly 4 years ago if you hadn’t noticed.

I linked to that deliberately as that was the last time the government was elected.

Which was a further Conservative term. With a large majority.

I'm sure it will be different next time but that is no guarantee the HICBC threshold will change.

[Deleted User] · 27 March 2023 at 8:20PM

TadleyBaggie said:

The £10 state pension Christmas bonus was brought in in the 1970's...almost 50 years later it is £10.

How does Labour/Tories/Labour/Tories/Labour/ConLib/Tories get away with nonsense?

Because they can! At 80, one receives an extra 25p in state pension - this was introduced in 1971. And it’s taxable.

In 1946 an exemption was granted for the first 15p value of meal vouchers provided by employers- it was only repealed in 2013.

There’s lots of this rubbish!

Jimeji · 27 March 2023 at 8:51PM

Honestly, it’s an absurd tax and making life difficult for thousands of hard working people and families. Truly outrageous.

Jeremy535897 · 27 March 2023 at 9:24PM

I find it quite odd that someone earning £13,000 is paying tax and might be entitled to no benefits, and someone earning £50,000 might be getting benefits on which they are just about to be asked to pay tax.