It was tax that was his gripe, but it boils down to same thing: more money for working overtime. But isnt this was most frontline workers get? Time and a half or whatever Personally, I wouldn't be a doctor for any money. Way too much hard work and responsibility. They handle peoples lives everyday, life and death decisions, whereas most in the forces handle a pencil or a spanner everyday and spend great portions of it bored
iv no argument with the armed services ,the great work they do and the pay grade they earn in fact up to me it would be increased.but I still think the op was complaining about his tax. as someone who owes his life to the medical profession ( inc nurses ) I have a lot of respect for doctors.......and the military ( thanks all ) but I still think when you see programs showing the scroungers claiming and complaining it makes me mad aghhhhhh. that makes my blood boil, not a doctor complaining about the tax he pays.
Call a doctor out at night and you'll get told to take two aspirin and if it doesn't improve call an ambulance and go to casualty.
Extreme anecdote time. Friends mum is dying of cancer, inoperable but being monitored. Feeling really unwell and call docs at 0100. Sorry no one can attend call an ambulance. Ambulance attend but are unwilling to do anything as its nit an emergency as such, ie she is walking talking but just in a lot of pain and feeling unwell. 3 days later (last week) the ambulance came again, this time on way to A&E they turned the blues and twos off... Now its not a blame game, but in a hour of desperate need there were no Drs who would come out. Full stop. Period. And we wonder why A&Es are under mad pressure :Banghead:
I don't get paid anywhere near £75k a year, closer to half that. I'm not complaining about the tax I pay on my regular job. I was making the point that A&Es are struggling to cover shifts and that is clearly a dangerous situation to be in. I was putting forward the idea that paying tax free might entice people into doing the shifts that they otherwise wouldn't do. The departments can't afford to offer more money, so sometimes are short staffed. I've been the only doctor in A&E at times and it's bloody madness. What the hell am I supposed to do if more than one very unwell person is in the department at the same time? I don't think the military are payed enough, but that's a different discussion. The thing is generally if you want people do to work for you out or hours it does cost more... Taking the cat to the vet in the day costs £20-£30, at night costs £100 minimum.
Again you seem to be making the point that you favour the Treasury giving a special exemption from income tax to certain payments made to doctors; and that you disfavour the Treasury giving that same money to the NHS so that it can be offered to those same doctors as higher payments. Again you decline to provide any justification for this extraordinary preference, even when asked to. Well OK, you're under no obligation to justify anything you suggest. Carry on.
There are these and other fish to fry.... What's done with our tax cash that we do make through the week paying people to sit in the house is of far more concern to me than someone making a few quid on the side. My own personal example is that of my own sister, whose man does his minimum 15 hrs a week. You and I then pay for my sister not to work the week, look after her 4 kids, pay for their two cars and send them 2 holidays a year, one often abroad, oh and if that doesn't grind your gears, remember you're also paying for their mortgage every month, which will soon paid off.... Another thread I fear...
It's all academic because it won't happen. However, perhaps camelfarmer would be classified as an emergency worker, in which case this would be relevant, in a worst-case scenario: From 2014 budget: "Estates of emergency service workers who die in the line of duty will be exempt from IHT (in the same way that armed forces personnel are exempt). " Otherwise, the answer for camelfarmer is simple - he can earn the money income-tax free if he puts it into pension savings, or gives it to charity, or a mixture of the two (subject to rules/limits etc). NI is probably moe problematic, but I'm no accountant.
i got a letter today from Cameron of no10 giving me back 2k N.I cheers david. but yer still getting this. :Finger:
Finm, I read all of your posts like they were being spoken by the two guys off of Burniston. Those two boys ARE Scotland.
