{"id":20766,"date":"2013-05-15T09:00:03","date_gmt":"2013-05-15T08:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=20766"},"modified":"2013-05-15T09:00:03","modified_gmt":"2013-05-15T08:00:03","slug":"for-those-who-argue-people-are-overtaxed-in-the-uk-and-will-run-away-if-rates-arent-cut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2013\/05\/15\/for-those-who-argue-people-are-overtaxed-in-the-uk-and-will-run-away-if-rates-arent-cut\/","title":{"rendered":"For those who argue people are overtaxed in the UK and will run away if rates aren&#8217;t cut&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This table has<a href=\"http:\/\/www.keepeek.com\/Digital-Asset-Management\/oecd\/taxation\/taxing-wages-2013_tax_wages-2013-en\" target=\"_blank\"> just been published by the OECD a<\/a>nd shows the \"tax wedge\" taken from\u00a0employment\u00a0earnings for all 34 OECD countries:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Screen-shot-2013-05-15-at-08.53.37.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20767\" alt=\"Screen shot 2013-05-15 at 08.53.37\" src=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Screen-shot-2013-05-15-at-08.53.37.png\" width=\"465\" height=\"622\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Screen-shot-2013-05-15-at-08.53.37.png 465w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Screen-shot-2013-05-15-at-08.53.37-224x300.png 224w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Screen-shot-2013-05-15-at-08.53.37-168x225.png 168w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Screen-shot-2013-05-15-at-08.53.37-98x132.png 98w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 465px) 100vw, 465px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The OECD say of this:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Screen-shot-2013-05-15-at-08.57.52.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20768\" alt=\"Screen shot 2013-05-15 at 08.57.52\" src=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Screen-shot-2013-05-15-at-08.57.52.png\" width=\"455\" height=\"96\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Screen-shot-2013-05-15-at-08.57.52.png 455w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Screen-shot-2013-05-15-at-08.57.52-300x63.png 300w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Screen-shot-2013-05-15-at-08.57.52-200x42.png 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 455px) 100vw, 455px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Note then that this \"wedge\" includes employer's national insurance - which most people do not appreciate is paid on their behalf.<\/p>\n<p>The UK is at 32.3%, well down the list.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, that may also be why we have such a high deficit: we are undertaxing high earnings in\u00a0particular.<\/p>\n<p>But there's no case for saying we're overtaxed, most especially at high rates. That's for sure.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This table has just been published by the OECD and shows the &#8220;tax wedge&#8221; taken from\u00a0employment\u00a0earnings for all 34 OECD countries: The OECD say of<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2013\/05\/15\/for-those-who-argue-people-are-overtaxed-in-the-uk-and-will-run-away-if-rates-arent-cut\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20766\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}