Posted on 09/20/2010 7:52:07 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
The UK's tax collection agency is putting forth a proposal that all employers send employee paychecks to the government, after which the government would deduct what it deems as the appropriate tax and pay the employees by bank transfer.
The proposal by Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs (HMRC) stresses the need for employers to provide real-time information to the government so that it can monitor all payments and make a better assessment of whether the correct tax is being paid.
Currently employers withhold tax and pay the government, providing information at the end of the year, a system know as Pay as You Earn (PAYE). There is no option for those employees to refuse withholding and individually file a tax return at the end of the year.
If the real-time information plan works, it further proposes that employers hand over employee salaries to the government first.
"The next step could be to use (real-time) information as the basis for centralizing the calculation and deduction of tax," HMRC said in a July discussion paper.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnbc.com ...
And the Brits will bend over and spread their cheeks for this without so much as a whimper.
Cool! Everybody would get an allowance!
I say it's time to take their betel nuts away and make 'em go cold turkey!
I can't wait for this to be proposed by the Dems.
Their government has been B* slapping these poor people ever since they disarmed them.
Is that really worse than Obamacare’s taking payments directly out of citizens’ checking accounts? (Answer: both are outrageous.)
I think this is funny at many levels. What are they going to do with the Sharia business that operates under its own jurisdiction?
Yeah, and the next proposal will be to use the funds transfer to further liberal social engineering goals.
What in the world has UK come to (and this under a “conservative” government)!
UK desperately needs it’s own “tea party” movement (en mass) not just a few activists here and there..or they are doomed!
I think they have one, actually, but it’s in it’s infancy, and it may not take hold like ours.
what a great idea! in fact, instead of sending money to people, the government could just hand out food and gasoline! it would be a utopia!!
This will hence forth be known as “Ye Bloody Ol’ Tax System” ...
Just wow.
It’s communism in everything but the name. Don’t think for one second that American democrats wouldn’t do this in a heartbeat if they thought they could get away with it.
hussein says, ¨Great another way I can wreck the Great Satan.¨
I wonder how long it’ll take for someone in Zero’s administration to come out and say something like “Great Britain, you chose well”.
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