Should pensioners pay more tax? Feat. Ann Widdecombe & Bobby Seagull | Jeremy Vine 

Lowest pension in the western world & they want to tax that pittance. Disgusting.

Pensioners already pay tax on the state pension and any private pension get the facts right.

Pensioners have paid more tax then anyone else.

As a pensioner who worked all my life and paid more than my share of taxes ( council , income , VAT , tobacco a alcohol etc ) I find this idea repulsive and disgraceful.

punished for being sensible. thats the lesson being taught by taxing pensioners more.

1 in 4 pensioners is a millionaire? Not in my bl@@dy neck of the woods they aren’t! 😂😂😂

Any pensioner getting less than £20,000/year should pay NO TAX

Jeremy vine is a slimy toad.

A foreigner has no right to talk about the native population's right to a pension. Do these people not understand cashflow? Someone living in the same house for decades is not rich just because the value of the house has gone up. These people are disgusting.

They keep on about people living longer but they never mention thousands who die before pension age.

Pensioners have payed their share end of.

Pensioners who worked and saved all the their lives not going to the pub every night not saving nothing for their old age should not be hammered for saving for their old age. Cut the benefits to people who don't work or want to easy.

Leave the pensioners alone

It’s disgusting to even ask that question.

MP's and PM's should pay more tax simple

Is he forgetting pensioners have paid tax all their working life.

They want to turn this into age wars rather than class wars

He needs to remember we have one of the lowest state pensions on Europe

I am 80 years old and still pay income tax on smal private pension but I am still below the cost of living amount and I am helping to support illegal immigrants and the age group 18 to 25 reported to be un employed through various illnesses 😢

My mum is 90, worked till she was 73. She rents at a shyte housing association house. Now she's paying tax on her pension pittance. She got 25p extra per month recently, and got 25p extra per month on her 80th birthday. WTF can she get for 25p?????????

Firmly NO to more tax for pensioners.

After the war this country was broke. Our parents fought the war, we boomers worked to pay for it. No wfh or mental health issues for us. We worked.

What a load of rubbish. We had secondhand furniture,carpets, TV etc , and my husband as a skilled engineer had a wage of £2000 a year. No holidays and had to pay £1000s in care/nursing home fees. Life has been hard.

Myself , and many Millions more , worked for 50 Years , or more , Paying Income Tax , NI Contributions Vehicle Tax , Petrol Tax , Council Tax , and V.A.T on top of it all , now , we get the lowest Pension of any of our EU Neighbours , pay Tax on it , and '' they '' call it Benefits . I have Neighbours , who gave up Work when in their mid 20's , and , when they reached retirement age had their '' Benefits '' double , when they left the Unemployed list , and got their Pension Credits .

Why are we trying to penalise pensioners who have PAID into a private pension Why have they waited until I have reached pensionable age to want to move the goal posts My company/private pension was originally voluntary if you are now trying to take more in tax what was the use of having a private pension I may as well have used the money when I was younger to have foreign holidays etc Why don’t we tax the big companies more how can Tesco make over 2 billion in profits whilst paying minimum wage and then we have to pay benefits to these people to help make up a living wage? So our some of Tesco’s profits our profits because who helped make these profits the people who work there who have to claim benefits to make ends meet Leave pensioners alone

Have they not paid tax thier whole working life? Why don't they start looking at the hundreds of thousands of working age people who aren't working/paying tax. If people aren't working thier benefits rise with inflation. Plus you get a state pension when youve never worked in your life.

I’d happily pay the higher rate income tax if my pension was raised to £100.000 per annum 🎉But why did my meagre private pension incur 40% tax, while Millionaires pay a mere 22% on their income?

We are the riches country in the world? We get £800 per month - Spains pensioners get £2,800. Why are our pensioners being asked to live in poverty and have so much less than the living wage (ie the amount that has basically been calculated as the minimum to actually live on?

No difference between labour and cons. Sad!

I'm 70 yr old pensioner who has paid tax from age of 16 and stil paying tax and it's got up again this month. As well as my full councill tax . I worked 70 hours a week to buy our house .

1 in 4 my arse you guys make my blood boil😡😡😡

let the mp's take a big cut in their wages or more tax on them

My dad payed a private pension for 40 years died at 67 my mum was entitled to 12 months if you want more money find out where all that and millions of others in the same boat went

This guy wants the pensioners to pay the dole money of the workshy?

The living wage is £400+ pensioners are on£ 220 ish so ffffight of 😡😡😡😡😡

If you have done nothing and maybe never worked in your life, you get a full pension, free housing and Universal credits, IF you have worked all your life, paid NI and tried to put what little earnings a working man earned into a small pension, Then everytime the basic pension goes up you are taxed on your £100 a year private pension DISGUSTING IF you were a Civil SERPENT then you have a magnificent pension and MP's have a Golden pension at lot more than £13500 a year TOTAL

If we were anywhere near the top of the table in the EU for pensions, then maybe - but we aren't. So NO!

We paid tax all our lives our pension in uk pathetic

Why don't they just put pensioners back into workhouses?My state pension is in the region of £!80 a week : All my working life paid National insurance. What a mug I must have been.

Tax the mega rich not the pensioners. People don’t live to 100 no one I know lived to 100. We have a huge excess mortality globally since 2021.

Some pensioners are providing finiacial support to their families, child care, school runs, and much more.

Housing was never cheap

Fought 2 world wars, I think Jeremy still thinks he's doing an interview in 1985, if you thought in the First World War you are sadly no longer with us, and then if you fought in WW2 you have to be at least 95, this idea that boomers or even the silent generation fought in the world war is just ludicrous from our media

Coming from the man who made his daughter a shareholder in his company just to lower his tax bill lmfao

This is a joke my husband got23 punds 3 days later they took 20 pounds more tax of him so in the end he got lousry 3 pounds Nd the foods going up and all the bills are going up so tha 3 pounds is a bloody joke they keep on about the younger generation they waist there money on having there there nails done all the time going abroud waisting monet on take aways going drinking buying cofees every day Paying for tatoos buying top brand names in clothes none of this whot we have ever done and could never Aford to do

Pensioners have paid more than enough , its time to get their money back

What a stupid idea. How many times should pensioners be taxed during their lifetime.

When you have worked for fifty two years in the building trade,paid tax and insurance for the full fifty two years ,paid a mortgage brought three children up i think I deserve what little pension i get..

Pay more tax? I got a £19 rise in my company pension of which £16 was taken in tax.

This just illustrates what a terrible job the politicians have done in the past to get us in this terrible mess.

If you’ve got more money than me I’m not standing for it. That’s todays attitude. Except for companies raking in billions.

Of course not we have paid enough let those immigrants start paying there way no job no money we send you back enough is enough

Pensioners paying more tax,The gift that keeps giving,after a working life of paying tax

No, they work all there life, leave them alone. 😂❤

The fact that the Tories, who used to have the mantra "work hard, save hard, be prudent and it will pay off in the long run" are now taxing the people who did that even more, just shows how low the Tories have sunk. The fact that they are doing it to pay for their own financial incompetence is unforgivable. Hunt should be ashamed of himself, but he seem's so smug that I very much doubt he is.

Pensioners should not be paying Tax at the standard thresholds… ridiculous

This individual sounds like he wants to exterminate those people who reach pensionable age

Why should pensioners be persecuted now? They’ve worked hard and probably lived in poor conditions compared to today’s standards that the young and entitled of today couldn’t even imagine. They should be enjoying the life they’ve got left in peace.

U.K.gov needs to get the work force working and paying tax rather than expecting the pensioners to pay more in my working life we worked long hours for very little.

ABSOLUTELY DISGUSTING WE ARE PAYING 20% TAX All I have in MY Pension that I HAVE PAID FOR IN MY TAXES.

Raise the poorer pension who get less than minimum wage to in line with minimum wage than I'd be happy to pay the same tax as them.

I’m only fairly recently retired after working all my life and mostly 12hr shifts at that, I find myself now almost being made to feel “ashamed” to be a “Pensioner” (even though I’m not actually drawing my state pension yet) and quite honestly Vine’s program is at the forefront for having “Debates” about pensioners for a multitude of reasons but generally geared towards them paying more or getting out to work, used to like this show but now I see it for what it is, same regurgitated crap week in week out😒

We are not to blame for suporting boat people

Someone has to pay for illegal migrants in hotels, etc, so they choose to take off the most valuable seriously arse ends .

Yes, I remember back in the 80's when houses were given away in jamboree bags and building societies paid us to take out a mortgage - just kidding. I couldn't get a mortgage in the 80's because I was young, had no savings and had started a new job. By the time I had saved enough for a deposit as a condition for a mortgage, the house prices had just about doubled. The CONservatives dragged the country through various recessions in the 80's and 90's, when at one time, the interest rates went up to 15%. In the early 90's, it was weekly news about how many people were having their houses repossessed. Eventually fixed rate mortgages were being offered, and at 15 years in, I had a celebration at getting a fixed rate at 5%. Regarding the pension, the UK is 15th in ranking for state pensions in Europe. The triple lock was a mechanism to try and bring the pension up to something worth having, after decades of underfunding it. We still have 25% of pensioners in poverty and material deprivation. I think this brown man is a sophist. Perhaps if the 20 / 30 somethings voted for a political party, that wasn't ideologically driven to making maximum profit by suppressing wages and artificially increasing house prices by reduction in social housing, and relying on private developers, who's only interest is to their share-holders and CEO salaries, to build houses. My local MP is Jeremy Hunt. Hunt bought 7 luxury flats in Southampton from a developer that was a CONservative donor. This developer gave him a discount on the flats for buying 7. Because he bought them to rent out, the taxman gave him a reduction on his stamp duty costs. When I used to work in London, foreign investors bought up flats in new developments with no intention of living there, waiting on an increase in prices. The moderately paid locals, were then forced to move further out, until investors had bought those properties too. No-one on average salaries can afford to buy property in London anymore. The government, in the last 14 years, could have done something about this, by not allowing foreign property investors the right to buy property in the UK. It seems likely that, since 25% of CONservative MPs have a property portfolio, they rather like the house prices increasing all the time. Still, the youngsters could do something about it, but apparently they don't think it's worth voting.

ONLY ON JEREMY VINE!

It is always the case that the grass looks greener on the other side of the fence. Once you climb over that fence you realise it is not, as I found out when I became a pensioner.

Apparently 650 mp,s are multi millionaires ? On paper ? The reason houses went up is because yall invited immigrants in more people and not enough houses ? Market forces build more houses ? But understand this is an island there is a finite amount of space

No they should not pay any tax at all they worked all their lives and deserve better understanding

This about people living to a hundred is nonsense

It is government dipping into the funds for other then pensioners payment.

I hope all those who want the pensioners to pick up the slack of those to lazy to go to work need to remember they will be old one day or die getting there

Where are all millionaire pensioners living I've yet to find or know of any.

Where does somebody go when they sell their stupidly inflated house and every house in the area where they have lived for 50 years is the same price? They bought it because they could afford it back then, and they would prefer to die there.

Fought in two world wars? 😂😂

No they shouldn’t pay more tax they paid their taxes in one way or another over the years purely by their hard working families contributing unless you come over in a boat

As a pensioner I would have no problem paying more taxes if I knew the money was going to help younger people who are struggling because they never had ALL THE BENEFITS THAT MY GENERATION ENJOYED !

Just because you bought a house years ago doesn't mean that you "benefit from the price rise" as if you have more money to spend. If you are still living in the house and a have a low income, then you still have a low income.

£5.5 Billion in benefits has not been claimed by pensioners, that's what i am doing when i retire in a few months!

Try taxing private jets cars and close the loops I just live on state pension and I had to wait a year longer to get my pension too so I’m a waspi man

Mortgage interest rates were 15% in late 70's and 80's

We were told years ago to get a private pension now that we got one they keep knocking us this young lot today keep spending ridiculous amounts of money on weddings and cars and clothing all on the tick and then they mourn about it

Private pensions are what you have taken out of your wages every month

If that was a member of parliament they'd known a way round paying it .they're not stupid .it's one rule for the rich guts and another rule for all others.

From a 67 year old: The price we paid for our houses didn't seem cheap at the time, and we never had such low, long term interest rates as seen in more recent years.

Look how much they get in spain

They gave us the 8.5 rise so that they could drag people like me into paying tax. The civil service did the same with 10% rise in my small pension.

I've worked all over the country anywhere there was work when I had none, over 30 jobs. I pay tax on my small private pension, if/when the asbestos I've had contact with kills me, my wife will have just over £22 a day to live on with her meagre pension. So we're not quite in the millionaire bracket.

Tax. The GiG.. Economy. who. Pay nothing. and. Non. Dom. Prime ministers. The pensioners help keep high streets afloat. Free child. Minding. We were in courage. To. have. Private pensions. Give us a Break very. Think. as become more expexsive i e. Fuel bills etc.😢

Have i now got to feel ashamed of reaching 73 yrs of age.

Hi Exhausted with constant reference to the triple lock. This is 8.5% on less than half the minimum living wage, not on an average salary. If you only earned the current pension of £11500 you would be entitled to numerous additional top up benefits.

What about those of us who will not see a 70th birthday because my health was damaged irreversible by working in heavy-engineering

A Pensioners Home has to be used to finance residential care in the event of ill health. Everything you have saved for gets taken by government taxes in the end.

Please don't bring up 'fighting two world wars'. Those who fought in WW1 are long gone. My 98 year old mother was still at school when WW2 broke out. The number of people who actually fought in WW2 is ever diminishing.

I am 64 and I also could not afford a place….. I’m female - we were not paid much and had no access to a private pension and I had to rely on my parents to help me get on the property ladder, even then I had to have a boyfriend to get a mortgage.

Most people would like to see a Conservative government in power, the problem is that they don't exist anymore and that is why the country is falling apart at the seams. Labour used to break the economy and the Tories would fix it. Now, the only right wing party left that believes in smaller government is new, untried and untested. Thus, we don't even know if the system can even be fixed.

I'd be able to pay more tax but that Truss woman took a very large chunk of my pension fund off me. The money I'd saved over the years.

Yes, I had second hand furniture, I made my first double bed. No £50+ mobile phones, no broadband, no Starbucks, no annual/tri annual holidays. Multi car households!!! WTF....entitlement! Anything worth attaining in life requires some sacrifice!

Big negatives for Boomers. Fuel poverty until late 1970s. High mortgage rates most of life - I think the lowest I ever paid was 7.5% Car ownership most of life one second hand car NOT PCP for new cars. Started paying for pension from 18. Low income for entertainment - no hols abroad till 50, no clubbing, pub once twice a week - moderate drinks. Plain food until late 1970s. Modest 3b semi which took 30 years to pay off. Inflation didn't seem to reduce gearing of income to property until late on - again 1970s -80s. We wore out clothes out. TV very restricted until Video recorders - wow what a difference that made!! But very few channels until 2000s. Work laborious - adding machines , fax, really bad copiers ,no comps. Very little disposable income - we had to save hard for 6 months to get TV, last month I just went and bought a great one for £300. Very little credit - it was all HP at high rates. Job for life ? Yes if in public sector not in private as many companies shut down. Retraining difficult. Not everyone got free education only bottom 30%. Student accommodation pretty bad. Cold room in a house shared bathroom and kitchen. No microwaves until 1980s, electric blanket was saviour!

don't pay into a private pension, even if your employer pay a contribution towards it. You will get ripped off, if you live to be old enough to claim a pension.