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Posted on 05/24/2026 6:30:07 AM PDT by RandFan
If Reform UK wins the next general election, people who earn less than £75,000 ($100,000) and work overtime above a 40-hour week will pay no income tax on the extra hours.
The £5bn a year tax cut announcement, made during the crucial Makerfield by-election campaign, will be seen as a direct challenge to Andy Burnham, the Mayor of Greater Manchester. Mr Burnham hopes to oust Sir Keir Starmer if he wins the seat.
It appears to be inspired by Donald Trump’s move to scrap tax on tips and is an attempt to make it harder for Labour to define itself as the party of working people.
On Saturday, Survation released the constituency voting intention for Makerfield – with Labour leading on 43 per cent, edging Reform on 40 per cent, Restore Britain on 7 per cent, the Lib Dems on 4 per cent, the Green Party on 3 per cent and the Conservatives on 2 per cent.
Writing for The Telegraph, the Reform leader said “people who put in the extra hours” at work see “no real reward at the end of the month” under the current system.
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I suspect that if a Walmart associate worked more than 40 hours a week and was legally entitled to overtime both the associate and the associate’s manager would get terminated.
I don’t know how things are in the UK, but in the USA, paid overtime is typically received by unionized employees with seniority and public employees in law enforcement.
Giving overtime tax-free status is likely to cause public employee pension costs to go higher and cause state and local taxes to rise and public service quality to decline.
Meanwhile, from Restore...
Rupert Lowe MP
@RupertLowe10
I’m getting accused by Reform accounts of lying about donating my MP salary to local charities.
Total and utter bull****.
I give every penny I receive of my MP salary to worthy causes.
These people are desperate and it’s truly pathetic.
1:21 PM · May 23, 2026 136.5K Views
https://x.com/RupertLowe10/status/2058236803568607265
The four asterisks are mine.
Deep State would like to see that, wouldn’t it.
Hmmmm...
There is the possibility of a 7 days on/7 days off system getting created that would shield about 50% of a worker’s income from taxation.
One possibility to help struggling workers is to allow employer-provided vehicle repair insurance coverage to be a tax-free benefit.
NOTE: That’s an idea that popped into my head while getting a cup of coffee.
BTW, the largest public or private sector employer in the UK is the NHS.
The NHS has, last I knew, over a million employees.
This is really about the NHS.
Holy cats. It’s gone up.
https://www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk/resource/the-nhs-workforce-in-numbers
Per the above from 2024, over 1.7 million.
And the NHS is a nightmare.
One more, per AI, FWIW...
“Approximately 90% to 95% of NHS employees earn less than £70,000. The overall mean annual earnings for NHS hospital and community health staff are around £41,000 to £44,000.”
Oh, yeah, this is about a backdoor raise for the NHS.
Who still won’t see you now even if they get it.
The comments about the “NHS” are interesting:
https://www.kingsfund.org.uk/insight-and-analysis/data-and-charts/nhs-budget-nutshell
“The mental health sector receives less than 8% of NHS funding, despite being responsible for a significant amount of NHS activity (23% in 2015, with at least a 39% increase since Covid). We are again being asked to make millions of pounds of savings & it’s hard to see how we can continue to provide a meaningful service. Specialisms like early intervention in psychosis (for which there is a strong evidence base) are at risk.”
COPYCAT
You are still taxed on your base pay rate but not the additional dollars paid for overtime.
Example if you make $30 dollar an hour and $45 per hour on overtime you will still pay taxes on the base pay $30 dollars of your overtime hours but not the additional $15 for working overtime.
They didn't tell you that part did they.
By the way, did you know Congress is on another paid vacation ? !
I’ll say the same thing about this as I did for Trump’s no tax on overtime. Simplify and level the tax code rather than complicating it. Just charge a lower tax rate for everyone. If we have an income tax, don’t make special rules based on the job title, which hour of the week you earned it and whether it was salary or hourly wage. And I feel the same way @bout all the “do a truck, get a cookie” parts of the tax code like “insulate your house and get a tax credit”.
Try to find out what percentage of NHS employees ever lay hands on a patient.
If this is what Farage is doing, going for a backdoor raise for the same NHS who won’t see you now, I hope Restore cleans his clock.
Oh, jeez louise. Per AI, and if this is accurate...
“While there isn’t a single exact metric for the proportion of staff who physically see patients, approximately 53% of the NHS workforce is classified as professionally qualified clinical staff (e.g., doctors, nurses, midwives, therapists). The remaining 47% consists of administrative, estates, management, and support staff who do not treat patients.”
No tax on Overtime. In Connecticut, they decide to tax overtime. The Dems do not care about the American workers. I hate them ..
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