Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
'Migrant tax' to be introduced - windfall for Haringey?
Anyone from outside the European Union applying for a student or work visa will be required to pay a tax levied on migrants.
This will affect hundreds of thousands of people from foreign footballers to touring Australian bar staff.
Ministers will this week announce the details of the fee, expected to be up to £50. The money will be handed to local authorities struggling to cope with the impact of immigration on schools, GP surgeries and other public services. The government hopes the tax will raise £70m over the next two years.
See the full story at The Times.
This will affect hundreds of thousands of people from foreign footballers to touring Australian bar staff.
Ministers will this week announce the details of the fee, expected to be up to £50. The money will be handed to local authorities struggling to cope with the impact of immigration on schools, GP surgeries and other public services. The government hopes the tax will raise £70m over the next two years.
See the full story at The Times.
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Permalink Reply by Old-Age-Emporium(OAE) on
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Now if we could just find a way to make this migrant tax a little more retroactive, like starting from 1066, or from the Angles, Jutes & Saxons, or even from Homo sapiens sapiens hitting the economic migrant trail for Europe about 70,000 years ago . . . . then maybe I could ignore the 2009 Council Tax demand which landed on my hall mat this morning?
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Absolutely, the tax that the migrants pay when they work here is not enough for the privilege and honour to work in our great nation. Indeed I think the government has chosen an excellent place to raise extra money - non-voters. I'd suggest the idea is extended to other non-voters, children, dogs, cats, cows etc, we'd be out of this hole in no time!
Anyone who can't trace their ancestry back to say pre-roman times should have to pay a tax on their earnings. How about 22% of everything up to about £30k and 40% above that?
(on a slightly serious note, migrants working in Australia don't have the tax free £5k or so before they start paying tax, i.e. they start paying at £1, could this work here (or indeed does it already and I'm not aware?)
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Permalink Reply by John McMullan on
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Australia is not a good example of how to treat migrants, IMHO.
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Permalink Reply by matt on
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There are all sorts of tax tricks Aussies, Kiwis & South Africans get up to whilst working here so as to minimise their UK tax bill. If they're professionals they're advised by 'specialist' tax companies to set up as self-employed as a way to minimise tax payments. They of course use public services for free.
I see no real problem therefore with a minimal so-called migrant tax.
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