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clansmanchrisFri 01/06/07 04:47

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Today, Tax Freedom Day, shows just how long we spend working for the Treasury, rather than ourselves. Overall, the government takes more than 40% of national income. This means that the average UK resident has to work a full five months of the year solely to pay that tax bill. Last year, that meant working from 1 January to 1 June – just to pay taxes! And the March 2007 budget did nothing to change that. Tax Freedom Day 2007 (for most of us in the UK) once again falls on 1 June.

For much of the last few years, however, Tax Freedom Day has been coming later and later. In fact, it falls a full week later now than it did back in 2002. That is an extra week of working for the Chancellor. At this rate, it will not be long until we spend longer working for the government than we do working for ourselves!

Tax Freedom Day is calculated by taking the UK's net national income and calculating how much of that is taken away in taxes. These taxes include not just income tax, but VAT, inheritance tax, stamp duty, car and fuel taxes, excise taxes on alcohol and cigarettes, taxes on companies and employment, and many more.

For further information about how Tax Freedom Day is calculated, and how and why Tax Freedom Day varies around the UK, please visit www.adamsmith.org.

Incidentally, today is the last day of my week's holiday from work. If the Chancellor of the Exchequer and PM-in-waiting or any of his fellow thieving magpies at the Treasury are reading this, may I just say that if you continue to tax me so highly I expect at least a few more days off work to compensate for you bastards stealing a large chunk of my hard-earned salary!

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