Income tax for pensioners should not exceed £4,000 per year.

Anywhere in the world would want your London pension money if you wanted their goods or services. These places never mind where the money comes from they just want to relieve you of it

I think it was posted by GN members? Correct?

I hear what you are saying Ana but is it fair some of us ex London employees will pay more in tax than what we will get in State pension.

Frank

YES YES YES - if you were paid that sort of money

London employees pay the same tax as anybody else!

Hi gillybob

Where is this shop. I will take my custom elsewhere.

Galen

London employees pay the highest amount of tax per person in the UK especially one's employed within the square mile.

Frank

I can actually see your point, Frank, but you should just be grateful that you have such a huge London pension.

Would that be because they are paid more than anywhere else in UK?

But manifestly fair if ex- anywhere else employees not only pay loads of tax but have to pay a pension back to HMRC because they are not worthy to receive?

To answer your question to Ana - yes it is fair that you and they pay your (probably) basic rate pension on all income above the allowance limit set for you and everybody else.

You are including council tax then. That is not income tax and is a separate issue!

Frank why do you have to be such a bl***y snob about the fact that you worked in London? As the lady in the song says "That don't impressa me much."

Hi Galen

I am not including council tax.

As the pension you receive was based on your London salary, which allowed for a London allowance, now that you are not London based should it not be proportionally reduced?

Just think, Frank - all that tax you're paying is also paying towards the care costs of those eldery folk you're persuading councils to take responsibility for! Every cloud....

Galen

We had to pay for our pensions at the London rate so we are entitled to have them paid at the London rate regardless of where we choose to live after retirement.

Ana

I am making the NHS take responsibility for the care costs not the council.

Frank

Want cake and eat it. Dog in the manger and several others.
Going to bed before I lose my temper over such self centred,self serving, dogmatic, egotism!
And that's being polite!
Goodnight all!

Galen, for the sake of your blood pressure, may I suggest a boycott of a certain person's posts which nobody takes seriously anyway?
Sleep tight.

Well. I am taking Andie for his final walk and we are then going to bed.
Andie likes to sleep in his basket in the corner of my bedroom or probably I should say our bedroom.
He does not want a bedroom of his own even though he could have one.
He has another basket downstairs which he sometimes uses in the day.

Frank

Whatever, Frank - at least you're paying more than your fair share towards it! That must make you very happy

Basket tax! Now there's an idea...

As we've seen recently, people on high earnings have the money to pay experts to devise all sorts of schemes that enable them to pay less than people on much lower incomes. Where's the fairness in that?

Also, everybody is subject to 20% VAT, whatever their income, which disproportionately affects poorer people.

Why do so many of you keep falling for this rubbish - don't feed 'em, is the rule.

Can you imagine this going on until we are all 150 years old? Another very good reason to die at the right time.