Originally Posted by
BAengineer
Nothing at all preventing you paying more tax if you so wish.
And I did, for some years, pay more tax than I could have got away with, having chosen not to indulge in the full range of NI fiddles available to the self employed. And whilst a councillor I reduced the costs on the public purse by mostly not claiming the expenses to which I was entitled (to some extent, it must be admitted, because I couldn't be arsed with the paperwork, rather than solely because the council needed the money more than I did).