John Simkin Posted September 19, 2004 Share Posted September 19, 2004 There is an interesting report in the TES this week about the pay people obtain in education. Here are a few examples. Any comments? Ken Boston, Chief Executive, QCA, £242,511 Mark Haysom, Chief Executive, Learning & Skills Council, £180,000 Heather du Quesnay, Chief Executive, National College for School Leadership, £149,033 David Normington, Permanent Secretary, DfES, £145,000 David Bell, Chief Executive of Schools, £132,588 Charles Clarke, Education Secretary, £130,347 Graham Badman, Kent Director of Education, £129,999 Ralph Tabberer, Chief Executive, Teacher Training Agency, £121,304 Alistair Falk, Headteacher, West London Academy, £120,000 David Hart, General Secretary, National Association of Head Teachers, £110,650 Carol Adams, Chief Executive, General Teaching Council, £107,000 David Miliband, Schools Standards Minister, £95,281 Stephen Twigg, Education Junior Minister, £86,173 Chris Keates, General Secretary, £86,004 Steve Sinnott, General Secretary, NUT, £78,960 Head of a secondary school (average), £62,547 Head of a primary school (average), £43,296 Head of department of a secondary school (up to), £39,435 Newly-qualified teacher, £18,558 School Caretaker (from), £10,500 Teaching assistant (from) £8,500 School Cook (from) £4,800 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Simkin Posted September 21, 2004 Author Share Posted September 21, 2004 One of the advantages of earning an high salary is that you can employ accountants and lawyers to make sure you pay as little tax as possible. The Labour Party promised to remove these loopholes. In 1994 Brown named 25 “tax abuses” that he intended to bring to an end. In his last budget Gordon Brown announced a retrospective crackdown on inheritance tax schemes. This will hurt thousands of middle-income families when it is introduced next year. This policy was devised by Ed Miliband, who is chairman of the council of economic advisers to Brown. He is of course the brother of David Miliband, the country’s Schools Standards Minister (£95,281). Surprisingly, one of the tax abuses that Brown listed in 1994 has yet to be brought to an end. This involves getting a lawyer to set up a “deed of variation”. This is a scheme to share ownership of the family’s property. This enables you to inherit assets tax free and therefore to avoid inheritance tax at 40%. It was revealed that Ed and David Miliband had recently inherited the family’s £1.3m townhouse in London. However, they will not be paying inheritance tax as the brothers had arranged for their mother to set up a “deed of variation”. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Miliband Posted September 21, 2004 Share Posted September 21, 2004 No comment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derek McMillan Posted September 21, 2004 Share Posted September 21, 2004 No comment. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I do not have any comments which you could publish Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graham Davies Posted September 22, 2004 Share Posted September 22, 2004 Interesting info. Each of the three partners in our business draws less than the annual salary of an NQT. This is enough for me, as my drawings from the partnership are just a supplement to my teachers’ pension (also less than the salary of an NQT). However, there are certain benefits in operating as a business, so there are “hidden” supplements to what the partners withdraw in cash. For example, a proportion of the expenses involved in heating and lighting the house from which I work can be offset against tax. Similarly, a proportion of telephone bills and expenses involved in running a car can be offset against tax – although I don’t use my car much these days as I work from home and don’t need to travel on business, apart from the occasional trip to the bank and post office. This is all above board, by the way, and calculated according to strict rules by our accountant and approved by the Inland Revenue When I was a young teacher I could not understand why I could not claim tax concessions for certain things that I needed in order to do my job. Teaching colleagues in Germany seemed to fare a lot better, claiming for books, home offices, computers, conference fees and expenses and travel to and from work, etc. The Inland Revenue in the UK definitely discriminates against employees, offering them very few tax concessions compared to what is offered to self-employed people – or to those on high salaries who can afford to employ an accountant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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