This is headline news on the Metro news site;
https://metro.co.uk/2019/11/22/man-8...ners-11200959/
"A Question Time audience member has refused to believe he is in the top 5% of earners despite raking in £80,000 a year.
The man went on the BBC flagship show and complained about Labour’s election policy of planning a 45p rate on earnings over that figure. Jeremy Corbyn’s party are adamant that their proposed tax hike would only affect the top 5% of earners.
The average UK salary is £29,000 and figures from the Office for National Statistics show that anyone earning more than £75,300 is in the top 5%. The unnamed man’s rant has now gone viral with him refusing to believe Labour’s statistics, calling them liars. He then goes on to suggest that his salary is not even in ‘the top 50% of earners.’"
The actual figures are here;
https://www.gov.uk/government/statis...-and-after-tax
The 50% split is at £23,600 (gross in 2016-17). At £36,000 earners are already into the top 75%.
At least there are others in the QT audience who are more clued-up than that man and can be heard correcting him.
https://metro.co.uk/2019/11/22/man-8...ners-11200959/
"A Question Time audience member has refused to believe he is in the top 5% of earners despite raking in £80,000 a year.
The man went on the BBC flagship show and complained about Labour’s election policy of planning a 45p rate on earnings over that figure. Jeremy Corbyn’s party are adamant that their proposed tax hike would only affect the top 5% of earners.
The average UK salary is £29,000 and figures from the Office for National Statistics show that anyone earning more than £75,300 is in the top 5%. The unnamed man’s rant has now gone viral with him refusing to believe Labour’s statistics, calling them liars. He then goes on to suggest that his salary is not even in ‘the top 50% of earners.’"
The actual figures are here;
https://www.gov.uk/government/statis...-and-after-tax
The 50% split is at £23,600 (gross in 2016-17). At £36,000 earners are already into the top 75%.
At least there are others in the QT audience who are more clued-up than that man and can be heard correcting him.
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