"Card reader broken" tax dodgers?

[Anh]

He's clearly a sole trader.


I feel your PAYE pain; HMRC relieved me of £27k in tax and NI last tax year. As PAYE we don't have any mitigation tools other than paying some more into a pension, really. Irony is I don't really use any of the public services that those taxes pay for - never been hospitalised, no kids in school etc.

It pisses me off when I'm paying so much and others are evading paying their share.

The fiscal system does not care for balancing what an individual pays in vs what they get out from it. Same applies for road tax, council tax etc etc ...

NI is another complicated beast, as what you have paid and continue to pay in NI is used to fund those who are taking their pensions now. The worrying trend of Tory governments is their creativity with state pensions, 66 as it stands with projected increase to 68 and so forth.

Yet I am just not convinced with the notion of leaning on local Turkish barbers and Lithuanian car wash firms would yield tangible improvements to everyone's quality of life here ...