Wednesday, December 9, 2009
Bankers bonus bleat
Banks hit by 50% tax on bonus payouts
The 50% is on top of the marginal rate, so pretty hefty as it should be. But the banks already trying to wangle things, pleading how hard they work, etc etc
Posted by letthemfall @ 01:31 PM (1746 views)
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will says:
Only for thoses who declare their bonuses in the UK, I suspect.
tenant super says:
This should have been extended to salaries and benefits in kind as several banks are simply shifting away from bonus onto basic salary and increasing benefits in kind such as paying school fees.
Dreadymatt says:
Can you post the whole article, as the FT website says i can’t access this? (cheers)
….are those bankers going to be able to escape paying this? I bloody hope not – we should have let Halifax, etc, etc, go bust (the government could have covered the deposits and pensions, etc at a far lower cost)
rumble says:
FTSE loving it. Presumably LSE will pull the plug in a minute.
jack c says:
FTSE 100 is virtually unchanged at 1600 hrs but FTSE250 is down 1%
rumble says:
True. I know how to pick ’em!
Andy says:
I read that it only applies until April 5, so presumably the bankers will just ask for this year’s bonus to be delayed by a few months. The purpose is probably to keep headlines about big bonuses out of the papers for a while.
stillthinking says:
The UK has a narrow tax base, the top 5% pay very nearly 50% of income tax. So actually there is a fairly big risk to government revenue should people move.
As a circular aside, the 5% in the UK have typically made their money by booking profits based on issuing debt, which is now guaranteed by the government, as there is insufficient economy to warrant the excessive debt issuance.
Stillthinking says:
I mean, more specifically, if we lose 1% (20% attrition) within that group because they domicile, fiddle, or otherwise make the effort to sidestep the increased tax, then the government loses 10% of income tax revenue.
So the problem, as has been stated many times, is that increasing high taxes reduces revenue. Labour did this purely to appeal to their idiot voter base and will be lucky to get even a minimal irrelevant rise in revenue while risking a dramatic drop.
stillthinking says:
The UK has a narrow tax base, the top 5% pay very nearly 50% of income tax. So actually there is a fairly big risk to government revenue should people move.
As a circular aside, the 5% in the UK have typically made their money by booking profits based on issuing debt, which is now guaranteed by the government, as there is insufficient economy to warrant the excessive debt issuance.