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Andrew wrote:
It's high time that NI is merged with income tax, with
proper bands. THis would do away with all the nasty side-effects
of earning a bit more but ending up worse off. It would also
claw back some of the eye-wateringly excessive pensions that
14,000 retired civil servants are trousering. This group has
climbed the greasy pole and ended up with salaries of £100,000+
and in quite a few cases £200,000+ and are getting pensions of
£50,000+ per year. Many are still working yet once past 65 they
don't pay NI.

You need to tell your favourite party that. Successive governments have
done everything in their power to produce artificially low income tax
rates. Indirect taxation, or 'fixed amount' seems to appeal more to the
great unwashed.

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