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Old 6th Apr 2016, 12:26
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Originally Posted by JaxofMarlow
My understanding was that "additional tax rate" starts at over £150000 and is 45%. I have seen nothing that changes this.
For every £2 over 100k you earn, you lose £1 of your tax free allowance. So this means that between 100k-122k (or whatever it is) you gradually lose your allowance, as the allowance is 11k, On top of paying 40% tax- so works out to be a loss of 60% overall.
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