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by midasuni 1296 days ago
Becaus of the “high income child tax” and student loan repayments marginal tax rates at just 50k hit 70%. They drop again at 60k, but it’s tricky to justify working extra hard for a £5k pay rise when you only keep £2k of it.

Doesn’t help that you can’t file jointly in the U.K. either.