IMF study finds inequality is damaging to economic growth

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I'd also add (I'm on a roll and drinking a very nice UK beer..) that there are a lot worse tax systems than the UK's. My own experience was earning €6k a year gross in a european country and having to pay over 40% tax and NI.. I could have possibly reduced that, but the €600 annual cost of a tax accountant put me off... If they promise not to arrest me I'd go back and spend my holiday money (if I had any). The problem is not taxation per se, but the fact that the well off don't pay it. Dentists earning less than postal workers? Well, if you you want to believe the returns of where I was living...