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Wish I earnt £44K a yr!

No, no. You should wish for £43,995 per year. (Then you don't get the higher tax rate.)

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Wish I earnt £44K a yr!

No, no. You should wish for £43,995 per year. (Then you don't get the higher tax rate.)

 

Good point, well put!

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People who park directly opposite my drive. People who park up on the kerb!. People who let their dogs walk (and worse) over my front garden!. Door to door sales men/women , Radio 1,

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Parents that swear and smoke in front of their children. Drivers that moan when driving past a school because the lolly pop lady/man is doing a great job of getting the children across the road safely and its holding them up! Find an alternative route !

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northantsbloke34:
Wish I earnt £44K a yr!

No, no. You should wish for £43,995 per year. (Then you don't get the higher tax rate.)


Good point, well put!


Although TBH they have jinked the thresholds around a bit since April and I am not sure what it is now.

I am not moaning though. (Sorry. I know this is supposed a moaning thread.)

We have four full-time incomes in our household and only about 1 year's total unemployment amongst the four of us over the last 30 years (and my little share of that was bolstered by about a year's salary in the bank from voluntary redundancy in 1992) so I count us very, very fortunate.

I have spent the whole of that 30 years aware of the fact that anyone can find themselves three salary cheques (or a major illness) from financial disaster and frequently remind myself of that to prevent getting smug about it.

 

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Wish I earnt £44K a yr!

No, no. You should wish for £43,995 per year. (Then you don't get the higher tax rate.)

But you still earn more, it is just taxed at 40%. 

I do think that it is very unfair to have a blatant anomaly that if one earns over £44k you lose child benefit, but if two earn up to £87, 999, then you do not.

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Wish I earnt £44K a yr!

No, no. You should wish for £43,995 per year. (Then you don't get the higher tax rate.)

But you still earn more, it is just taxed at 40%

Yeah, I know.

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Wish I earnt £44K a yr!

No, no. You should wish for £43,995 per year. (Then you don't get the higher tax rate.)

But you still earn more, it is just taxed at 40%

Yeah, I know.

I know that you know, but I was aiming for those who do not know, or think they know but are wrong or don't know that they actually don't know.

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maxflinn:
id love a good debate with her



Or any other sort.
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chebby:

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chebby:
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Wish I earnt £44K a yr!

No, no. You should wish for £43,995 per year. (Then you don't get the higher tax rate.)

But you still earn more, it is just taxed at 40%

Yeah, I know.

I know that you know, but I was aiming for those who do not know, or think they know but are wrong or don't know that they actually don't know.



I thought I knew, but don't now.
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People who park in the disabled space without a blue badge because they are "just nipping in for some fags!".

Smoking

Car stereo's so loud that we all have to listen

people who do not que at slip roads and think its their right to jump in right at the last minute.

Lorry drivers who feel the need to overtake another lorry because they are going 1 mile an hour faster!

middle lane drivers

road works.

 

 

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chebby:

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chebby:
northantsbloke34:
Wish I earnt £44K a yr!

No, no. You should wish for £43,995 per year. (Then you don't get the higher tax rate.)

But you still earn more, it is just taxed at 40%

Yeah, I know.

I know that you know, but I was aiming for those who do not know, or think they know but are wrong or don't know that they actually don't know.



I thought I knew, but don't now.

I thought I knew you'd know, and never knew - or thought I knew - you wouldn't know now.

Knowing what I know now - that you don't now know - I don't know.

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I knew you'd say that.

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JohnDuncan:
I knew you'd say that.

I knew you'd know I'd say

Forget it.

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northantsbloke34:
People who park directly opposite my drive. People who park up on the kerb!. People who let their dogs walk (and worse) over my front garden!. Door to door sales men/women , Radio 1,

you must live on a similar street to me, wonderful to find another persons dog leaving its mess on your garden