who gets taxed more the rich or the poor?

Question

I need to settle an arguemnt do poor people get taxed more than the rich?
someone told me this but i cant explain it to my mam and fiance.
for example i come out £180 a week this is not including my tax's would someone who made much more than me pay as much tax within the year or would i?? please help
female 25 england x

Answer 1

In Britain the top 10% of the richest people pay as next to no taxes while council tax keeps rising. the price of beer has gone up, but champange and scotch hasn't. The awnser is that if you have a nice lump in the bank, you dont pay sh!t. If your middle class, You pay an obscene amount of tax. If your poor, your fighting for the scraps the middle class leave behind. Capitalisim is the enemy of today.

Answer 2

In Britain Mr Average who can't afford a good accountant pays a fair whack of tax, the rich who can afford these people pay by comparison very little( ask Tony Blair ). Then there are the many caps such as upper council tax bands, a cut off in N.I. payments which means some people pay 52% to the government at the end of their tax year whilst the mega rich pay47%

Answer 3

The poor pay more tax than the rich because the rich can get crooke lawyers such as "Cherie" nee Cherry Blair to create tax havens and loop holes so that the money they have got from drug deals and forcing countries into debt can be put into offshore bank accounts so that they pay either no or very little tax and yet it is these scum who whinge loudest when there is even a whiff of the government spending money.

Answer 4

Your run of the mill republican answer will tell you it is the rich.

However anyone that buys dinner at a hundred dollars a plate can afford to get taxed.

I was unemployed for two years, and owed NY State about a 150 dollars. You would be hard pressed to convnince me that they go after any privilieged person as aggressively as they went after me for this petty amount.

The poor are struggling just to eat and keep a roof.

Let the rich use their wonderful money on something useful, then I will sympathize with their tax situation.

Answer 5

In the UK the tax rate is heaviest for higher earners.

Over the last 10 years the tax burden has shifted to the detriment of the better off and in favour of the less well off, with those in the middle staying about the same.

Obviously the super-rich can afford to hire people to look for tax dodges for them.

Now if Lorne published his Tory party list of supposed recent "tax rises" (see almost every other answer Lorne posts if he doesn't) - you will see that many of the supposed tax rises introduced by Gordon Brown were in fact tax loopholes being closed. I presume the Tories support tax loopholes for the ultra-rich.

Answer 6

The rich have the power to move their money to tax havens and can afford accountants to find the loopholes in the law. The poor pay proportionally more of their money in tax than the rich.

Answer 7

The reason is that the rich can afford people to find tax dodges so that overall, the poor will pay all the tax due while the rich have found ways of keeping more of their earnings.

Answer 8

look at what percentage of income goes to taxes of any kind.
from that perspective, the middle class bears the brunt, and the poor and rich both skate cheap.
what we need is a flat tax. say, 12% across the board, no write offs.
corporations, rich, and middle class.

Answer 9

percentage of income the poor pay more in taxation. You have to look at it differently you bring home 180 pounds per week you will have paid roughly70 GBPin tax and national insurance, but it's what you spend your income on that hits hard, with indirect taxation Vat ect.

Answer 10

The more you earn the more tax you should pay,
but the lower paid normaly feel the pinch more because thay have less in there pocket at the end of the week/month.