How are you going to celebrate Tax Freedom Day?

[Gromit]

Today is Tax Freedom Day, which marks the theoretical point in the year when employees stop making money for the taxman and start making money for themselves.

It takes the average worker a full 152 days of the year to earn enough money to cover the total tax that they will be liable for during 2007, according to economic thinktank the Adam Smith Institute.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml =/news/2007/06/01/ntax101.xml

I'd celebrate with a pint, but 90% of that is tax.

[OBonio]

I assume we pay VAT on take aways too.... I might go and turn my parents' heating up. I think pensioners get tax relief on that don't they? Or is that only in the winter... Maybe I'll add an extra �20 to my pension contribution .... oh no.. that's taxed too.

I know, I'll put an extra bag of rubbish out while I can!

[Gromit]

Here is another attempt at the link...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml =/news/2007/06/01/ntax101.xml

[ludwig]

Well, I haven't got much money left to go out or get a takeaway or anything, so I'm going to celebrate by having a few glasses of cheap EU wine, writing some drivel on answerbank and then doing a really big fart. Have they taxed farting yet?

[spudqueen]

Hmm, doesn't the tax year start in April?

[vehelpfulguy]

Of course for the 500,000 or so illegal immigrants we have in this country "Tax Freedom Day" was January 1st.

And we all have to pay more tax to make sure they still get their free National Health Service treatment, we cant have them missing that can we.

[kwicky]

In future I'm not going to work for the first 152 days of the tax year.