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Row as Starmer suggests landlords and shareholders are not ‘working people’
(www.telegraph.co.uk)
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Of course they're not working people. They are leveraging capital to give them an income. That is not the same as chopping wood and carrying water.
Or filing accounts.
Yeah you may be younger, but let's remember many folks my grandfathers age did not consider white collar work, to be work.
That idea is as far from correct as this article. Anything that is taxed under PAYE is working taxes. As the Labour Party manifesto and Starmer called it.
Shares growth of property and renting is taxed as capital gains.
Owning a business is the one that depends on how you choose to do it. Most sole traders are by definition covered under Income tax if self filled rather than PAYE.
If you have registered an LTD, you have a little more choice. And most accountants will advise you do not pay yourself as income tax. So you will be treating your labour as an investment. And here we see why the wealthy want false claims like thi in the right wing media. Because there is a possibility, that advice may change in the future and business owners will lose some tax advantages to a pay lower tax % than their employees.