From: BeeJay <>
Newsgroups: uk.finance
Subject: Re: Overpayment of tax
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 19:26:05 +0100

On Thu, 20 Apr 2006 19:40:07 GMT, Ronald Raygun
 wrote:

>BeeJay <> wrote:
>
>> Check that tax office are deducting subs to union. If teaching a
>> practical subject that special clothing is being claimed for. If a 40%
>> tax payer check that pension contributions are being correctly claimed
>> for.
>
>A *teacher* a higher-rate taxpayer?  Are you some kind of comedian?

No I'm, not a comedian I'm a teacher.

I am a head of dept in a state school and have paid the 40% rate for
the last 4 years. An unpromoted teacher at the top of the pay scale
gets over £30,000, so most promoted members of staff are into the 40%
bracket.