The wife takes the pay packet and returns some to the husband.
Most individuals in our community believe the measures that we are discussing to be simply an additional taxation deduction from their pay packet.
Adding them all together, the cost to the employer is double what the employee receives in his pay packet.
This is deeply ingrained in the concept of the weekly pay packet and weekly benefit, although one can depart from that by expressing an option.
In 1964 a married man with two children, earning what was then the average industrial pay packet, paid £23 in tax on additional overtime earnings of £100.
If most of the money does not go through the pay packet, why bother with the administrative mess of the tax credit?
Why all this nonsense about paying it through the pay packet, paying it to men and putting burdens on business?
Another way of considering the issue is to ask whether there is any problem in forcing the payment through the pay packet.
