Come il Labour può porre fine alla trappola fiscale da 100.000 sterline per l’assistenza all’infanzia e raccogliere 700 milioni di sterline all’anno

Given that MP’s salaries will soon be over 100k this will 100% be changed soon.

The way to get this to happen is to stop talking about the £100k tax trap, because whilst that is the worst example, these sort of traps exist lower down too, only to more people who have fewer options, people who are not ‘forced to put it into their pension’, because they cannot afford to put in anyting beyond the bare minimum, nor can they afford to ‘decide to work less’, no they have to pay the extra tax and accept the loss of benefits because what else can they do.

The answer to all of this is to make the tax and benefits system much more incremental for everybody, I mean I could understand the point of having 20% and 40% bands and cliff edge benifits when we had people filling out physical forms and inputting payments manually, but surely this is the sort number crunching that technology should be helping us with?