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  • But that's the point, we're really not far off a flat rate tax. A guy earning £25k has a marginal rate of 32% and a guy earning £145k has a marginal rate of 42%.

    A sensible progressive taxation system should increase monotonically, not do this:

  • Is it? If you just look at it without further explanation you would think that you pay 40% income tax if you earn above 42k but it's a lot less as a total.

    This kind of graph works better for me

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