Men pay £75 billion more tax than women every year

iainmf · 2017-03-29T11:00:27+00:00

In addition to paying less tax, women get more in government benefits.

barndoor101 · 2017-03-29T13:27:11+00:00

My new favourite article. Basically on average men pay twice as much tax as women.

contractor808 · 2017-03-29T16:34:19+00:00

I'm confused. The stats show that men make more (not for the same work as women, like the "wage gap" advocates claim), so why is anyone surprised that men pay more tax?

Is there any evidence that women get tax breaks in the UK for being women?

MealReadytoEat_ · 2017-03-29T06:20:06+00:00

You need a percentage in the title, people don't intuitively understand large numbers

Mac4491 · 2017-03-29T13:17:54+00:00

Well duh, we earn more.

Meyright · 2017-03-29T11:18:05+00:00

The state is one big restributer of wealth in favour of women. And we, as a society, once had an incentive to protect women by redistribution of wealth. But those times are over. Women are free to care for themselfs and pay for it.

Take the issue of free menstrual products for women for example. If something is free, this means everyone is going to pay for it through taxes, not just the people (in this case women) who use it. Feminists literally want men to pay for them.

moolah_dollar_cash · 2017-03-29T15:00:01+00:00

But, they never seem to mention that if women started to earn as much as men, then they would start paying as much tax as men.

Haha wtf is this? Obviously people don't mention this because it goes without saying. What argument does this paragraph make? It literally makes no sense.

Honestly how is saying women pay less in taxes because they earn less an argument against any point being made by femenists on the "pay gap"?

If you want to make a point about how they pay gap is fine because some women don't want to work as many hours then make that point. Don't make up some weird reframing of them earning less to make them sound greedy or something, just to launch into it anyway. It's cheap nasty bullshit. Make some actual arguments.

orcscorper · 2017-03-29T16:22:32+00:00

He lost me at

While there are slightly more men at work than women

17.6M vs. 13.1M? That's about 35% more. Multiply that by the 73.7% of the average male work hours that women work, and 92% (the widest estimate of the adjusted pay gap), and you get 50.4%, almost exactly the amount of taxes paid by women divided into the amount paid by men, according to the article.

This ignores progressive tax rates, different deductions and countless other factors, but it's funny that women in the UK seem to be paying exactly the amount in total taxes you might expect them to pay.

omerio911 · 2017-03-29T16:48:53+00:00

Saying that man pay more tax than women is as useless as saying that women earn 70 cents for every dollar a man makes. It is even mentioned in the article that man pay more because they earn more. The title is nothing more than a clickbate and I think using such titles only hurts our cause.

DaeusPater · 2017-03-29T12:10:08+00:00

I wish there was a country which gave citizens(not corporations) the right to 'determine' where their tax dollars(or atleast some % of it, like 75%,80%) will go - which is a actually a form of democracy. It removes the middlemen, who are corrupt politicians, out of the way. It would still need legislators for other purposes, but citizens will more direct control over government policies. This makes the state more accountable towards the people. The one disadvantage is the poor will have less of a voice. This can be overcome by mandating the higher economic classes to reserve certain %(like 15% or 20%) of their 'determined' tax amount towards programs that help lower economic classes. This is a fair deal for everyone involved.

If such a country exists I'm moving over there right now.

RunawayGrain · 2017-03-29T13:59:33+00:00

I'm all for a flat national sales tax on everything excluding essentials. Everyone pays the same rate. So it eliminates the 'Illegals not paying taxes and getting services' argument, and addresses the 'rich not paying their fair share' complaint as well.

Read about it here and make up your own mind: https://fairtax.org/about/how-fairtax-works

SwordfshII · 2017-03-29T14:15:30+00:00

Equality!!!! Women need to pay more taxes!!!

merton1111 · 2017-03-29T17:50:36+00:00

Same kind of bullshit stats that feminists like to throw around to support their opinion.

It's not a men vs women. It's equality between men and women.

Nergaal · 2017-03-29T19:30:11+00:00

He also pointed that 17.6 million men paid £121.0 billion, an average of £6,875 per person per annum, and 13.1 million women paid £45.5 billion, an average of £3,473 which is just over half (50.5 per cent) that paid by male taxpayers.

Lucius_Martius · 2017-03-29T20:28:52+00:00

Well, that's because, you see, women aren't allowed to earn more, and are forced to work fewer hours by stereotypes and stuff. We all suffer from the patriarchy, you see. Women just a bit more of course.

G4RRETT · 2017-03-29T21:18:15+00:00

this is stupid cause in aggregate men earn far more money than women, which is what feminists complain about, and that's why men pay more taxes...

cuntycuntcunts · 2017-03-29T21:41:31+00:00

I DEMAND EQUALITY!

abattlescar · 2017-03-29T23:59:56+00:00

Fun fact: this is the statistic that women use to claim $0.77 for every $1.00 a man makes. Income is observed based on taxes, and it's generally reliable except when you need to compare 1/2 to 1/2.

dewse · 2017-03-30T04:21:51+00:00

"Women make less than men". It's the same type of observation. Presenting an average of gender doesn't mean much for the individual fairness. Interesting observation, but meaningless to men's right.

lucyinthelargetee · 2017-03-29T18:46:36+00:00

Well that's because men earn more than women, duh! Also what about hashtag pinktax on my tampons? /s

FountainLettus · 2017-03-29T15:16:45+00:00

We should spam post this in r/feminism

Title	Men pay £75 billion more tax than women every year
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Date	March 29, 2017 6:00 AM UTC (9 years ago)
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