英国1%的富人缴纳1/4所得税
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A quarter of all of Britain's income tax revenues this year will be paid by just one per cent of earners, according to official data.

官方数据显示,今年英国四分之一的所得税收入将来自于1%的纳税人。

The figure is in sharp contrast to 1978, an era associated with supertaxes(附加税) , when the top one per cent paid 11 per cent of all the tax revenues.

Experts suggested the projections1(预测) , published by HM Revenue and Customs, was evidence of how the rich had got richer over the last three decades, while the tax burden on them had increased substantially in recent years.

The new top rate of 50p income tax rate came into force in April 2010, landing a small number of people with the highest rate of income tax since 1988.

It is not yet fully2 clear how much money this top rate of tax, introduced by the former Labour government, will raise. However, last week the HMRC published its forecasts for all income tax revenues for the current tax year. It suggested that 275,000 individual, those that will pay the 50p rate, will pay £41.4 billion in tax – 25.7 per cent of the country's total income tax bill.

In total there is expected to be 30.6 million taxpayers3 this tax year.

In 2008-2009 it took 648,000 of the richest taxpayers to pay a quarter of the country's income tax revenues.

John Whiting, the Tax Policy Director of the Chartered Institute of Taxation4, said: "The rich are getting proportionately richer, and therefore are paying more tax.

"In a curious way it demonstrates what a contribution they make. It is well worth the country attempting to keep them here. In trading terms, they make a considerable profit for the taxman."

There have been fears in the City that the 50p tax rate would drive out many businessmen from London. Though some hedge funds(对冲基金) have relocated to Switzerland there is no evidence of companies or individuals relocating offshore5 in substantial numbers.



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1 projections 7275a1e8ba6325ecfc03ebb61a4b9192     
预测( projection的名词复数 ); 投影; 投掷; 突起物
参考例句:
  • Their sales projections are a total thumbsuck. 他们的销售量预测纯属估计。
  • The council has revised its projections of funding requirements upwards. 地方议会调高了对资金需求的预测。
2 fully Gfuzd     
adv.完全地,全部地,彻底地;充分地
参考例句:
  • The doctor asked me to breathe in,then to breathe out fully.医生让我先吸气,然后全部呼出。
  • They soon became fully integrated into the local community.他们很快就完全融入了当地人的圈子。
3 taxpayers 8fa061caeafce8edc9456e95d19c84b4     
纳税人,纳税的机构( taxpayer的名词复数 )
参考例句:
  • Finance for education comes from taxpayers. 教育经费来自纳税人。
  • She was declaiming against the waste of the taxpayers' money. 她慷慨陈词猛烈抨击对纳税人金钱的浪费。
4 taxation tqVwP     
n.征税,税收,税金
参考例句:
  • He made a number of simplifications in the taxation system.他在税制上作了一些简化。
  • The increase of taxation is an important fiscal policy.增税是一项重要的财政政策。
5 offshore FIux8     
adj.海面的,吹向海面的;adv.向海面
参考例句:
  • A big program of oil exploration has begun offshore.一个大规模的石油勘探计划正在近海展开。
  • A gentle current carried them slowly offshore.和缓的潮流慢慢地把他们带离了海岸。
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