[walshemj]

But at level you quite often get a jump over that - also at that level you can make full use of the various tax reduction perks.

Employee share saves, 20K ISA, Salary Sacrifice into pensions, EIS at up to 1,000,000 a year for 30% tax relief SEIS is 50% relief but only 150k a year oh and their is VCT another 200k per anum at 30%.

And you pay as much property tax as a lower middle class person does in the states.