UK to return to Serfdom

[notebuyer]

I'm not really being sarcastic: instead, I read that the UK government has thought of having all employers send paychecks directly to the government, which would take out what it wants, and then return to the worker what they think he deserves. Read that sentence again.

Then check out the article (excerpt only, please read in full):

The UK's tax

Comments

[fpb]

That news item was published by a tabloid owned by a pornographer and notorious for false or exaggerated scare stories. It is as reliable as the Diana-was-murdered stories that same tabloid routinely publishes.

[notebuyer]

Sadly, the news story was correct. It had a link in it to the report (PDF linked here), and if you look at section 5.6 of that report, you should see exactly what was reported as the goal: gross pay to government, they deduct what they decide is owed, balance to employee.

Even pornographers are entitled to get things right now and again. Even the UK government might, eventually, something. Though they might lose the paperwork.