My understanding is everything below £12,500 is tax free?

It is for income tax but not for National insurance .

The threshold at which you pay NI is
£ 11604

The point still stands though. It is still poorer people carrying a higher burden.

I would much rather see more emphasis on tax fraud and avoidance to collect additional monies to pay for welfare

It's funny that disagreeing with everything you say is causing discord on here because I don't remember falling out with anyone, I respect the opinions of everyone on here including yourself, the difference being is that the rest post their opinions and leave it for posters to agree/disagree and don't get personal like yourself, one can only assume that you were bullied at school in those train carriages, did you attend Thomas A Beckitts by any chance, sorry St Austins? the only person I manage to do that with is your good self on account of the constant criticism metered out by you which leads me to your next bit of speculation by saying I must lead a lonely life and shout at the television, where on the other hand you spend most of your life on here bemoaning the fact that good old Boris defeated your heroes in the last election, you couldn't make it up could you oh wait a minute you already are, and just for the record having worked down the pit any job outside of the mining industry back in the day when conditions weren't as ideal, any job would be a dream job, trying to describe to Stevie Wonder about how green the grass is is tantamount to describing what an honest days work is to a pen pusher like yourself.

Hang on a minute, didn’t boris promise the 350 million quid a week Brexit saving to the NHS
Comes to billions and billions
Who’s trousered that lot then lol

No wonder Boris is running scared of any public enquiries

My father and brother were both coal miners in their time and my mother in a mill until she was 60,so I don’t need an education about that but like you they both got out and I was sufficiently educated not to have to follow them. I don’t consider working in an office any less than those who work manually other than the different parts of the body you use.
I was definitely never bullied, I did hear that you were responsible for a famous film part when one of the directors saw you arguing with yourself in the rear view mirror.

My irony meter has just exploded
Passing judgement on others bloody hell you couldn't make it up

As someone who voted for John Major don't you think that post to be a tad hypocritical
Read my lips there will be no tax rises Major
How much of the country's wealth was lost in a single day

Seems fair, we all want a decent health system and it has to be paid for.

Covid has robbed the bank so now we all need to dig deep.

Well it sounds like your brother got his dream job then if he's the one that ran a pub, I suppose that's okay then because he's your little bro and got out of the pit, where as I'm to be scorned upon for doing the same, the difference is I did long before him, you say you were sufficiently educated, if that's the case why do you sit in the same seat year on year in the East stand at Bellevue under a hole in the roof constantly getting wet, even though you flatly deny complaining about anything on the terraces at the ground, wouldn't it be simpler to just move, surely by your own admission a man of your intelligence would have realised before now .
And finally I know you think yourself as a bit of a comedian, as it happens so do a lot more on RLfans but you need to bin the comic what told you that story, with your imagination you can do far better.

For a man who obviously believes in nothing other than to try to generate a response to your stupidity. it was you who used the term pen pusher I never mentioned you were a coal shoveler. I will correct your lies once again, he is not my little brother and I have only sat in that seat for two seasons and there was a reason why I did not move . I have also never complained but I am sure your mysterious friend at the GC would have said I did. I note you had no idea who I was speaking to but he certainly knew a lot about you even guessing you were a lorry driver. I will tell him if I see him again to do the lottery because he possesses a rare gift. What scorn did I put on you all I said was that they both got out like you did or is this inaccurate because I know you have problems much like Boris with the truth.
I don’t need to be a comedian when their are clowns like you on the forum and the one liner with no actual substance JONNYGIANT posting.