Robert Peston
speaker
5,610 appearances
43 recordings
5 series
first heard Nov 2025
last heard 3d ago
Robert Peston’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 43 in all, peaking in Jun 2026 with 9.
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manager called Chris Rockos has just left the country and he pays quite a lot of tax in this country.
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He's going to stop paying tax in
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country.
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There are a lot of people here who say...
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The wealthy just don't pay enough.
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And that may well be true on their wealth.
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But it is also the case, isn't it, that the top 1% of earners pay surprisingly large amounts of the total income tax bill.
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What is it like?
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I think it's something like 30%, isn't
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When you don't spread the tax burden across everybody and you are dependent on a relatively small number of high earners, if a significant number of those high earners, and they tend to be more mobile people, just decide they don't want to live here anymore, that's a problem, isn't it?
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What in particular?
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Obviously, the issue about that is if you were going to do that,
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you would have to literally just announce it and do it.
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Yes.
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Because otherwise everybody would
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delay.
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Exactly,
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there'd actually be a leak,
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Well, I mean, you know, I mean, look, the fact is, one of the reasons it's thought that this bloke Chris Rockhouse left is because he thinks there will be a rule of that sort introduced.
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And just therefore going back to the proposal that you put last year, which from memory was you would cut the employee national insurance rate by two percentage points and put up
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