[wdmmg-discuss] BBC radio program about tax

[K Corrick]

Julian,
Totally agree. I've been listening to them this week. They've been really
interesting and helpful. Definitely worth listening to. I now know nuggets
such as why economically it's much better to increase the Personal Allowance
but why politically it's more attractive to lower the tax band percentage.
Cries of "10% tax" much snappier than "We're raising the personal allowance
by £500".

Kathryn


On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 12:51 PM, Julian Todd <julian at publicwhip.org.uk>wrote:

> It's called Evan Loves Tax.  I heard one show yesterday morning
> explaining how the tax system is deliberately complicated because the
> public responds to things like lower band rates of tax, but not to
> higher personal allowances, even though both achieve the same thing
> (the former with greater complexity).
>
> Recommended for everyone here:
>    http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00tpp23
>
> Julian.
>
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