The Caithness Business Index has posted the following article:

A 10% Student Tax Is Unfair

Why are we imposing tax rates only designed for those with much higher incomes onto students earning little more than the minimum wage? It makes no sense, at all. Why are so many people paying up to 38 per cent tax on quite, well, average levels of earnings in the UK? As we know, the basic rate of income tax on earnings up to £50,270 a year in the UK in 2024 is supposedly 20%. [Read Full Article]