Point taken. UK income and UK capital gains are taxed for resident and non UK residents.
It sounds like you’d like a wealth tax. There must be a reason why Labour didn’t go that route? I can think of two possible reasons:
It would back fire and they’d lose out on growth / income.
Their corrupt and in the pocket of the super rich.
I suspect the answer is no.1.
That’s my point really. Why am I paying more and not the really wealthy? I’m from a large estate in Cardiff. I don’t earn big money and nor does my wife.
On several occasions ive had wafts of fruity, exhaled vape make its way through my car’s hvac system and up my nose as Ive been driving on the a A34.
Why you’d want that in your lungs is beyond me. 'Kin stinks at a safe braking distance away.
I suspect Tristan, you are probably in the top 2-5% of earners in the UK. Stop indulging yourself in this cryarsing nimbyism. It’s frankly embarrassing.
You may understand though, why a country with huge numbers of families barely able to feed themselves, sending their kids to state school for the best chance they can, probably don’t care how much it costs some rich twat to send their kids to private school, where they’ll largely be handed opportunities on a plate.
You are welcome to not pay these costs and just use the same schools as everyone else, where your children will survive based on their gifts, and intelligence, not on backhand opportunities afforded by “where they went to school”.
Well the great news is, sending your children to private school is entirely discretionary. So you can unburden yourself of this financial yoke at any time or make other discretionary choices to accommodate it.
Let me provide some context: your school fees for one child will be more than the entire annual net pay for most support staff in the schools where I work.
I came from a background not dissimilar to what you describe. My father had a heart attack when I was 8 and couldn’t work for years. When he did go back he was a kitchen porter. My mother had 2 jobs, luckily we didn’t lose the house.
My mother was educated in a Convent and massively valued education. My father was from Tiger Bay and had no qualifications. They sent me to a local church school, which eventually led to university. None of us are religious, but it was the best school available. If I’d gone to the local Llanedeyrn High I’d probably have done nothing.
I just want Harben to have the best education possible. It’s money well spent.
We will find the money. We have no cars on finance unlike many. Our youngest car is 7 and was in fact donated to us by my mother who is 92.
I was born (accidentally) to two out of work teenage parents in a council estate outside of Edinburgh, we were poor and hungry for a decade.
I did well at school, worked through university, and eventually got a decent job. I’ve worked hard to become a senior IT consultant for some very high profile customers.
But I’m not the one here moaning about private school fees. So again, I’m not sure what point you’re making.
Friends I know who are sending 2-3 children to some of the best private schools in the country and then through Oxbridge are unashamed about their motivation to keep their offspring in the elite of society with first pick of the top jobs. VAT is not going to come into their considerations in any shape or form.
Beyond me how a fruity exhaled vape going up your nose annoys you more than the CO2, NO2, CO, Benzene, hydrocarbon particulates, and all the other shit cars emit.
Not quite but I wouldn’t go to the beach without one. I would give vaping up if I could, I can’t. I’m thoroughly addicted to nicotine. I use the safest possible method I know of to consume it. Cunts on high horses moaning they hate it and trying to equate it to destroying the planet, producing fumes on a motorway already filled with actually noxious, poisonous gases grinds my gears. As I said before live and let live.
