My wife is a senior biomedical scientist, during the pandemic she worked nearly 16/18 hours a day for nearly 6 months, to test samples and put in new working practices for rapid covid testing.
She was hardly home and the pressure it put on us as a family was huge. I was also working full time (at home) during the pandemic and had to run the house as well as look after and home school the kids. This not a complaint.....we muddled through like everyone else did at the time.
The complaint is; that she got paid overtime for working these stupid long days and putting safe working practices in place, to protect colleagues and ultimately speed up testing. Fair enough you say.......yes. But this overtime took us over a certain threshold for family tax credit......and low and behold she was hit with a tax bill of nearly £2.5k.
All for doing her job.
And cunts like Zahawi and his rich cronies can get away with this shit, time after time.
Should be locked up. Cunts the lot of em.
You should also be forced to send your kids to the schools you’re refusing to properly fund and run. And banned from using private healthcare.When I was in teaching overtime became payable for staff who ran extra classes after school.
As senior management I was expected to do it but got no extra money.
I’d like to see this concept brought in for cabinet ministers.
You can be a cabinet minister but you cannot use any tax avoidance strategies that anyone on average wage would not use for as long as you are making laws. . Ie. ISAs ok, trust funds - fuck off businesses you created based in Gibraltar under daddy’s name - fuck off.
And also their personal annual tax returns should be published for as long as they are in government.
Out and out dodgy cnut like the rest.Careless?
Forgetting to declare a £23 million windfall that you knew should be taxed!
Say thank you to your wife for all she did during the pandemic- it’s amazing how quickly a lot of people have forgotten the efforts of all of those people who worked themselves into the ground for the greater good of us allI don’t think he’s got away with it this time but your general point stands. Thing your good lady should have done was put the money into her pension (tax avoidance) then she’d not have been penalised. Those who earn plenty know the tricks already whereas you didn’t.
Your stance appears to be;From that article that was linked he has attempted avoidance which was badly done/created too many questions so he settled.
However both fair comments. It’s fair to say it’s either avoidance or evasion… if he attempted avoidance but fell in evasion because he’s incompetent… it’s still evasion irrespective of what he was attempting. He’s a very dislikable politician.