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[London HENRY 💷 @londonHenryGB]

Got to the office, like I do every day.

Just to get to work:

Train: £20
Parking: £10.50

£30.50 gone before I’ve even opened my laptop.

That’s over 13% of my daily take-home pay spent simply turning up to work.

Tell me again how the UK incentivises people to graft.

[London HENRY 💷 @londonHenryGB]

I’d keep roughly £5,030 more a year if UK tax thresholds had risen with inflation instead of being frozen.

The bands would look more like:

Personal allowance: £16,070
40% threshold: £64,270
PA taper starts: £127,860
PA gone: £160,000
45% threshold: ~£191,790

Fiscal drag isn’t invisible. It’s a pay cut.

[London HENRY 💷 @londonHenryGB]

On PAYE, you should be able to offset travel to work against tax.

[London HENRY 💷 @londonHenryGB]

I probably chose the worst time in the UK to be a high earner 🤷🏽‍♂️

[London HENRY 💷 @londonHenryGB]

£1.2M house, £150k a year salary.

To keep repayments at 60% of net take home ~£3k/month (30yr @ 4.5%), I’d need a £600k deposit (50%).

Even saving 60% of my net pay (£36k/year, unrealistic, my current household expense are 60%):
•£600k = 17 years
•£61k stamp duty = 1.7 years

So after nearly 2 decades of extreme saving, I still end up with a £3k/month mortgage… plus bills.

You be the judge.

[London HENRY 💷 @londonHenryGB]

You can be a top taxpayer in the UK and still be priced out of housing.

But the system can fund multi-million-pound homes for others for decades.

And we’re told this is fair.

[London HENRY 💷 @londonHenryGB]

For those saying the wealth won’t leave.
You’re wrong.

[Oliur @UltraLinx]

This is scary. What's the point of even working hard in the UK 😂

[London HENRY 💷 @londonHenryGB]

I don’t know why people get so offended when all I advocate for is to keep more of my own money that I earn.

[London HENRY 💷 @londonHenryGB]

When people look back and study why the UK fell.

[London HENRY 💷 @londonHenryGB]

@DeborahMeaden Where does the money go?!
We have the 5th biggest defence budget in the world, and can’t even dispatch a vessel on time.

[London HENRY 💷 @londonHenryGB]

There is outrage in the US over $5 / gallon.
That’s £0.98 per litre.
I repeat.
£0.98 PER LITRE.
If trump is to blame, who the hell is to blame for the last 20 years worth of fuel prices in the UK.

[London HENRY 💷 @londonHenryGB]

Those asking for the maths:

On a £150k salary in the UK (with a Plan 2 student loan):

Income tax: £50,328
National Insurance: £5,011
Student loan: £11,043 (say what you want but an MP has said they use the interest for general government spending)

Direct deductions: £66,382

Then add:
Council tax: £3,600
Road tax: £500
Stamp duty: £10,000
Fuel duty (~£300/mo fuel): ~£1,600
Estimated VAT: ~£11,000

Total tax: ~£93,000

From £150k earned, roughly £57k actually ends up in your pocket.

It then costs me £700/month (£8,400/year) just to travel to work — from post-tax income.

After that, I'm left with about £48k of actual usable money.

Effective tax rate: ~62% (≈68% including cost just to get to work).

[London HENRY 💷 @londonHenryGB]

I am a top 2% tax payer.
I go to the office 5 days a week.
I don’t choose how 65% of the money I earn is spent.
How did we get here?

[Martin Lewis @MartinSLewis]

I do hope the reason for likely new Covid restrictions today - the plan B we're about to hear about - has been done based on the science, rather than convienient timing to knock the No.10 party out of the news agenda.

[hsavva @Hsavva_]

@TravelmaniaLtd 🙌🏽 🙌🏽 🙌🏽

[hsavva @Hsavva_]

I've signed @theccoalition's Declaration for a Healthy, Greener, Fairer Tomorrow. Will you join me? https://t.co/bc7I0XNyn8

[hsavva @Hsavva_]

@Bambos_MP

[George Monbiot @GeorgeMonbiot]

Here you can see which MPs voted against free school meals, and how much they have each received from the public kitty in expenses. I hope you're sitting down.
Sterling work by @jacobHeppleston
https://t.co/9Mlc7kplXe

[hsavva @Hsavva_]

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