22-05-2023, 01:50 PM
(21-05-2023, 12:50 PM)Lilith7 Wrote:(20-05-2023, 09:41 PM)Zurdo Wrote: I'd like PAYE tax payers have some some of the benefits of the rich - the ability to claim ''legitimate'' expenses and other means to pay less tax than we are actually taxed. We have to keep the system ''fair.''
Absolutely; that's the problem with the present situation because its so weighted in favour of those already well off.
Over my 40+ years on my very average salary I used to think how it would be great to be able to claim some of the costs of going to work but of course it never happened.
It wouldn't do much to help the poor v. rich argument. Salaries run from small to huge so any benefit from being able to claim anything would probably be of little to benefit to those on at the low end while those at the upper end would likely have higher expenses and would get to claim more. The opposite of the case you are trying to make here.
Some of the most hard-up people are those who are running small businesses where everything goes against them and they struggle to survive. They are the people who most need a break. And if they overcome the often insurtmountable odds and succeed enough for you to call them "rich", they don't deserve to be disparaged for their efforts.