How much of what you earn actually belongs to you?
If you add up income tax, national insurance, VAT, stamp duty, inheritance tax and capital gains, estimates suggest you are working until around October before your money is your own.
So how much does the state take and what does it provide?
I discussed this with Alex Recouso from CitizenX on Roxom TV (nprofile…p7p7) as we tried to work out how to define that threshold.
At what point do we start to define a system differently?
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