Stealth taxes, not wealth taxes

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

60% : If 9 per cent of your pay cheque is already going towards repaying student loans, this will be even more of a squeeze.
53% : This means someone currently earning £150,000 will pay an extra £1,243 in income tax per year.
49% : Over the years, the allowance has increased to £12,570, lifting more of the lowest earners out of paying tax, but widening the 60 per cent band at the top.
48% : Anyone who is seriously rich will be relieved that the chancellor did not align CGT rates with income tax, which would have cost them far more than simply lopping £6,300 from the annual tax-free allowance.
46% : Paring back dividend allowances will squeeze investors and directors of limited companies a little more but, again, dividend tax rates remain lower than equivalent rates of income tax.
45% : And even if you don't have children or rent a property, anyone earning between £100,000 and £125,140 will know that 45p rate is not the top rate of tax.

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