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Today is tax freedom day

29 May, 2012

Research from Bright Greys Financial Safety Net report also shows that housing and household bills take a further 82 days to pay off.

So, after their tax obligations, the average British full-time worker has to work solidly until late July to keep a roof over their heads each year.

Alarmingly 17 full days are needed to keep up with debts that average out at nearly 1,500, almost 50% more than is set aside for an annual savings pot (just over 1,000).

This is all worked out on the basis of the worker paying for everything up front rather than as a percentage of each months pay.

By highlighting all the other freedom days, the Financial Safety Net report reveals how long it takes to fund different aspects of our lives and lifestyles.

Rent/Mortgage Freedom Day 2012 will fall on Monday 23 July. From that day on, household bills such as water, gas and telephone will take a further half a month to pay off, and it will be mid-September before food shopping has been accounted for.

Roger Edwards, proposition director, Bright Grey, commented: There are such a range of costs that many families struggle to cover during the course of the year and its quite scary to think that we spend more on taxes than housing, bills, groceries, debts and transport put together.

Once taxes and housing costs have been paid, everything else follows in priority order. And of course, whilst many people can make ends meet by the end of the year, there are a significant number of individuals that do not have enough disposable income to cover their outgoings, and essentially need more than 365 days to be able to cope with their spending requirements.

Edwards continued: In Britain, there is a lack of financial planning and protection is part of this, even though the benefits of life, income protection and critical illness cover far outweigh the relatively small costs. Only 40 per cent of people currently have a protection freedom day, with the rest of the population not having any protection cover at all.

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UK & World News: 'Tax Freedom Day' 48 hours later

May 29 2012

Employees start working for themselves rather than the Government on Tuesday - two days later than last year, according to low tax campaigners.

The Adam Smith Institute said Tuesday marks Tax Freedom Day - the point in the calendar when Britons stop working for the Treasury and begin to earn for themselves.

The institute's director, Dr Eamonn Butler, said: "Tax Freedom Day, which the Adam Smith Institute has been calculating for 25 years, is the plainest way to show what the tax burden really is.

"That is why the Treasury hates it. They of course want to conceal how much tax we pay, which is why they are so keen on stealth taxes."

The think tank adds levies including VAT, income tax, national insurance, council tax, excise duties, air passenger taxes, fuel and vehicle taxes in its calculations.

Dr Butler blamed the double-dip recession and increased VAT for pushing back the date by 48 hours compared with last year.

He added: "The stark truth is that this burden costs us all 149 days of hard labour every year.

"That's not how long a rich person has to work - it is the time the average person must labour for the tax collectors."

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Because it's a wonderful day. It's Tax Freedom Day, according to the Adam Smith Institute.

Tax Freedom Day is special for the free-marketeers. It marks the point in the calendar when Britons supposedly stop working for the Treasury and begin to earn for themselves.

In the words of institute director Dr Eamonn Butler, the 149 days at the start of the year "is the time the average person must labour for the tax collectors."

Now before all of you start filling in your application forms for a job in Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs, we should point out that Dr Butler is being less than exact here.

This is, of course, much to the disappointment of all the hardworking civil servants who, on reading the good doctor's words, have already started packing their buckets and spades.

Sorry chaps, that's not it at all.

What he really meant is that 149/365ths of the average income goes on tax.

So all of you with visions of sun-drenched tropical islands packed with filthy rich tax officials in aloha shirts and casual sandals enjoying a long vacation at our expense will have to think again.

The overstretched officials at HMRC will have to resign themselves to continuing to pin down obscenely rich tax-dodgers despite being 3,300 short of staff thanks to the Tory cuts.

Free-marketeers from the Tory Party right will have to look elsewhere for something to justify their vindictive hatred of public officials in general and tax inspectors in particular.

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