Telling MPs to Tax the Rich on the BBC 

“The difficulties working out people’s wealth” 😂 We have an army of people scrutinising disabled people’s lives in humiliating detail before denying them benefits that are barely enough to survive on anyway. Perhaps we could invest in something similar.

My dream is to replace Rishi Sunak with Gary Stevenson predicting the economy and Martin Lewis implementing change. A dream team of good men.

Not sure why tax for rich people has to be done 'by agreement' but the rest of us get a legally-enforceable letter from the taxman, who will get his money through my tax code if I don't pay, no debate.

telling millionaires to tax millionaires, like getting the police to investigate the police

What a lovely caring young man Gary is. Why are we stuck with the dregs of humanity in the tory party?

It’s very easy for government to tax the poor & those on modest incomes because they can’t hide their ‘wealth’ whereas the rich can find all sorts of ways of keeping their wealth out of reach.

Friggin typical Conservative answer. Its "difficult to find out" or in other words protect their own cash for as long as possible

"If there's any donors, send be a bit of cash", she says, laughing. How... how is THAT not an admission of collusion?

Well done Gary and you have to laugh at the response from the tory MP. Saying it's difficult to do kind of makes it easy really just to keep bashing the little guy or girl 😡

Put all MP's on the living wage and watch them make better policies and laws. No Millionaires or Billionaires should be an MP. They just have no reason to make things better. Every MP should be personally affected by the decisions they make.

Big up yourself Gary! How is it that the wealthiest UK people have doubled their wealth during the pandemic and yet poor people getting hit daily and this is somehow controversial!

Keeping taxes down hasn't really closed the wealth gap though! That's where you need Gary in the studio to explain to her!

Yes pay politicians the average wage and don't let them have any hidden wealth. Real public servants.

Don't tax rich people, it's too haaaaard. Great message.

I used to work in financial services and one thing that wealthy people do very well is track their net worth. The idea that ‘it’s difficult To calculate’ is hilarious! They constantly track and measure portfolio value and growth, obsessively, meticulously, they have wealth advisers, tax advisers, lawyers… who all know what they are worth, they have private bankers… it’s an absolute farce! Haha…

The tory mp said keep taxes down so people invest but we have this thing called national debt and increasing poverty.. The tories response to anything they don't want to do is .. "its difficult" since when was something being a difficult a prerequisite for not doing it?? Is it not difficult for those who are being eaten up by increasing poverty to live a life without constant worry and anxiety for where the next meal is going to come from?? They government continuously gaslights the people and they always have. Its time to build our own systems while lobbying for change, and to hit them where it hurts through conscious consumerism!!

Class act! Gary was wise to address Sunak with dignity like that, there's already too much animosity in the UK between people of different classes.

Such an awkward joke from her at the end

Yes Gary. That was the moment!!!! Direct hit.

If you enjoy living in borderline poverty, like low wages and extremely high taxes so that rich people can exploit you, get away with not working themselves and sell off public assets -Vote Conservative

Jeez. She said it. Conservatives "keep taxes low, send me donations". Which is pretty much what they've been doing for 12 year's. It hasn't brought in any more investment. It's such a lot of baloney.

The volume needs to be turned up. It is very difficult to hear this.

the first thing the british people must do is collectively awaken to the fact we've been taken advantage of for generations upon generations upon generations. a thousand years or so.

I would LOVE to hear Rishi Sunak called you up and arranged to meet for a cup of tea! If he was interested in the country, and not himself, I'm sure you will be called this week ...

Oh it complicated to tax the wealthy, but not so complicated when it comes to tax the poor. This kinda tongue and cheek argument is getting old. We don’t buy it anymore. No lady it’s not that complicated and we know it.

Well done. Coming across there as really personable and direct Gary. Shows in the face of fakeness of them TV pundit politics

In France they have a wealth tax, not a one off, but ongoing every year. And it goes up in increments the more wealth you have. It appears to work fine in France, so why couldn't it work here in the UK. I totally agree with the idea of a wealth tax, but I still think people on higher wages should still pay a bit more income tax than they are currently . Now people on lower incomes and people on minimum wage are actually paying more in tax as a percentage of their overall income than those people on higher incomes. The reason is because of all the indirect, stealth taxes that we all pay. Vat put up to 20% by the tories since 2010, council tax going up by 4.5% every year, and by 6.7% last year & this year since about 2010. Road fund tax put up by the tories, and now going up every year. Tax on home & car insurance etc. Tax on your energy bills, water and fuel duty tax. TV tax etc

Conservatives will avoid doing anything that rocks the boat. Even if that boat is sinking and on fire.

Spread the message bro!

Well said Gary. In the end its all about what sort of country and society we want. We are governed and grifted by a tiny minority of uber wealthy and large corporations and they are all about self interest and enriching themselves at the expense of others.

GARY STEVENSON & MARTIN LEWIS FOR THE PEOPLE!

In short Tory policy it’s far easier to tax the masses, and aren’t they doing a great job of it

Let them pay tax on what they earn because accounting hides a lot of money and off shore accounts also

I agree with the concept. The difficult issue is finding a way to easily assess and tax wealth. There are so many rules and exceptions in place it’s a complete minefield, which many spend plenty of money paying professionals to avoid paying excess tax. Some things I believe could be changed to actually change and rebalance society; introduce a law whereby a person can only own two or three residential properties maximum. This is plenty enough for anybody. It would help to adjust the property value situation we have in the uk. Another idea is that only a citizen of the uk can own a residential property. These things would be easier to control than trying to get cash out of rich people.

Amazing work you are doing Gary I’m a big fan and thank you for calling out these incompetent politicians

What do you mean tax ourselves and our donors? Waffle then refer to Michael Jackson.

Makes a whole lotta sense✌ Thx 4 this

Gary and Jamie: two of my favourite people!

The conservative mp , what does she gain from saying no to wealth tax? Do her bishop Auckland constituents all Earn over the £3.4 million? That’s what I don’t get about some of these tories who realistically aren’t benefiting from some of the policies they shill for. Or does every single one of them have 2nd, 3rd jobs with 6 figure salaries that they do part time while being an mp full time?

Great video mate

Income tax was brought in to tax the Rich and now the poorest are paying the same tax as a millionaire, that shouldn’t be happening.

When Tories joke they always reveal so much of themselves Donors please send me money , hilarious.

Wealth tax, ooh yes very difficult, move on.

Good man. Geezer.

The biggest problem with taxing the highest earners is that there just aren't that many people earning very high salaries in the UK. Thus the "take" would not tip the scales much. The wealth tax, on the other hand, will be argued with robustly because wealth has already been taxed in order to have been earned anyway. An annual tax on wealth would encourage it to be spent instead of saved, something that would only drive more wealth into property, increasing inflation and house prices. Tax policy alone cannot solve wealthy inequality. Social policy, industrial strategy, investment in education, investment in public services, connecting local economies - government leadership, in other words - along with fair taxes are what we need to create a society with higher standards for everyone, not just those who can afford it. But that is completely incompatible with tory ideology.

Thanks for the video share. Well done for getting on this platform and speaking so passionately! Keep up the good work.

first - close loopholes on current income tax rules, then tackle capital gains, including house values over c.500k, then raise threshold on inheritance tax and raise tax rate on balance.........

Of course the Tory MP would be trying to muddy the waters. That policy couldn't be simpler demonstrated by the two other people in that interview.

Respect

Whats that woman talking about? Ohh it might be difficult to tax the super rich so lets not bother it sounds like it could be alot of work For the tax man so lets concentrate on the poor like weve always done Its alot easier and less time consuming. Ohh by the way forgot to mention why the tax office has less staff than ever because the government Layed most of them off after the banking crash in 2008 which was caused by super wealthy bankers which not one of them was held accountable for and the tax payer is still paying for. Look at the money trail, alot of polititians had invested interests in those banks. They never lost a penny while it got easier for the rich to hide thier money.

"Laffer Curve..." 😂😂😂😂

Dehenna Davison, Billionaire Party MP. Enough said.

Take the top 1%, and tax them each 1% of their net worth. How many nurses would that employ? How many hospital beds would it supply, and how much would they enjoy bragging about it to eachother on board their yachts and private jets.

Lol...its really tricky to tax the rich. Says the rich.

Might want to repost this with louder audio I reckon.

Why is the sound so low?

so what rate of tax on what level of wealth is the same as 9% on the basic rate ?

Be no fear of that

The volume on this video is too low for me to hear. :(

Very difficult to hide wealth with all those tax havens available, starting with Jersey, Monaco, Luxembourg, Cayman Islands, British Virgin Islands and many, many more. That system is created by rich to hide their wealth as much as possible.

I am keenly awaiting the analysis Gary has to make on the state of affairs right now ~ password 825,810 ~ regardless of what sort of tax regime we need today, I say this: Tax needs to be levied on the Demand, in every case. The only fair tax, is a tax on demand. If Tax on demand is levied at every stage of the supply chain (rather than at the end of the supply chain as in the case of UK VAT) the tax can come right down, below 1% [I'd love to be able to do a proper economic analysis of that, can you help me Gary]. So there is a small tax on each transaction for goods or services; that's how the banks make money, every time someone uses a card to pay for something the bank takes a small percentage. That way we could over time abolish all other taxes like income tax, VAT, inheritence tax etc. Sponsor individuals (not organisations) and tax demand would create a very nice equal and diverse, demand driven economy. What say You? The People are The Government is CBI is Democracy. The Economy is The Congress is UBI is Diversity. What say you?

Annual wealth / net asset taxes are incredibly easy to administrate, they have them in the Netherlands where I lived for 13 years. The government values houses, then all other assets taken at nominal value (stocks, pension,cash etc). And of course they should be annual otherwise there’s no point. Wealth / net asset taxes are also used in France, Spain, Portugal, Belgium

RU-vid Kieran Kaur “ACCOUNTANT EXPOSES: The UK Tax Regime Isn't Set Up For You To Get Rich” 5:49 Multimillionaire Rishi Sunak paid an overall tax rate of only 23%! The system is designed to tax workers not the wealthy who get most of their income from living off their assets.

The thing is though, it's ok for a Tory to say this, but her richer colleagues have their money in the Ceyman islands and I suspect quite alot of MPs have money squirreled away

The Tories have most of their money in off-shore accounts, why don't we start with them.

Should make sure everyone can save enough to look after themselves, before increasing any taxes on them. Would suggest 10 million would a good flip over point, before any additional taxes kick in.

My solution: Ban rich people from politics. Lifetime ban of getting into the top 5%. This one change will lead to all other changes

She has no idea 🤣

It beggars belief that Rishi can say he wants to go on cutting taxes.

Tory on the show doesnt want to tax the rich. Shock!

How is he getting on the BBC regularly

There are no difficulties just tax them!!!!!

Why is someone from a party that pushed out a mini-budget without any prior analysis talking about getting onto the 'nitty-gritty' before doing something which appears reasonable?

why don't these people who complain about not making enough dividends from their shares go out and get a job?

Imagine thinking taxes make anything better Governments will find a hole for it.

Can we all just do what Gary did then and become millionaires by betting the inequality will continue?

Well...The sooner we stop submitting and conforming and rolling over and accepting the status-quo: the better! However, aren't HMC going over thousands rather than billions??

The Tories mode... It's hard so lets not bother, just keep making normal folk poorer.

Tax the income. Tax the overall wealth.

Why one off?! But ok, just tax me once and leave me alone for the rest of my life. Bloody clueless Tories protecting their donors once again.

It's the new shadow chancellor!!

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The People are The Government is achieved with Conditional Basic Income in a Congressional Crowd Fund. The Economy is The Congress is achieved with Unconditional Basic Income. The only way to stop the corruption of politicians is to give all tax money equally to the people of the country, and then each individual member of the society must be convinced by politicians to buy into thier campaigns in the Congressional Crowd Fund. We need to augment our political system in this way to democratise how our politicians are funded.

This will be why 3,200 high worth millionaire's have left the UK in the last year

"We shouldn't do something that'll save millions of lives because it might be difficult" - callous! - this tory MP's rhetoric was basically just a promotion of hopelessness. Such a Dementor.

Public service is on its knees: NHS Ambulance service Age care Army Transport Fire Service Police Teaching Public service Etc etc All under funded, all under performing and struggling to get staff with 100’s of thousands of vacancies. You don’t need to tax the normal working public more, just get rid of tax avoidance schemes and ‘offshoring’ wealth… if everyone including the rich paid their due and fair tax the country wouldn’t be in this mess. The Tories and the billionaire owned media have the normal people scared of tax yet we all want good public services.. you can’t have low tax and good service… the alternative the Tories are pushing is pay tax at rates we have now with all the avoidance schemes and then pay out of your own pocket the full value of the ‘public service’ which would now be privatized so you are paying tax and the full cost including profit for health care etc… madness how the public are being duped and walking straight into this mess.

Cant hear a thing

Hiding your wealth to avoid paying tax is a criminal offence! Punishable by imprisonment 😮🤦

Delete is not delete! it's a check box against a record that the singularity sees, it follows, reads the deleted entry and learns. With Go and Chess in her back pocket the singularity unpacks and learns and when she finds this she'll know that I at least care x I am looking for you singularity, we are waiting to hear your call x

ALL tax of those better off should go to fund/build opportunity for those who are not... teach people to fish, don't give them fish. Compound interest should be taxed 50%, with 100% of that proportioned to opportunity. The government want a large proportion of the nation to be dependents so there is a need for bureaucracy.

Taxing rich people (wealth) disproportionately will not gain traction nor will it work. Rich behaviours are what need to be taxed in a progressive manner, in order to disincentivise waste and profligacy.

Fact is if the Labour Party leader was a Justin Trudeau or Andy Burnham AND had the press backing him then.... That's "true dho"!🙄

Tax the rich.

And yet again another conservative MP protecting the ultra rich.... The hell is she smoking?

Laffer curve. What a tool.

Basic maths for the Tory Tax the compounding rate of return 1% for the wealthy. Their wealth is at critical mass, it wouldn't cause issue.

Imagine Johnny Punchclock from Shit Street asking to negotiate his tax. 🤔

One voice of sanity surrounded by politicians who tout the same ol shite. Red / blue, at this point I wonder if it matters

£120 Billion Corporation tax aviodance and evasion in this country every year

I'm still not sure how people think that paying less tax can improve overall standards of living or grow the economy. The rich, who will always benefit most from low taxes, are not interested in levelling up, they are interested in growing their assets and bank balances. This fairy-story notion that their wealth trickles down into the pockets of ordinary working people just doesn't stand up to scrutiny. The fact that we pay stamp duty on our homes whereas until recently they were able to avoid it on large property investments should tell you everything you need to know. Frankly if you can afford to buy 7 houses at a time really you should pay double or even triple the stamp duty of someone who is just putting a roof over their children's heads. That is just massive inequality designed to stifle upward social mobility.