&gt; and down to the awesome simplicity of their tax forms and tax code. Actually the UK tax code is canonically simple and should be adopted by the whole world ;)<p>I hope that wink means you&#x27;re being sarcastic.[0] Yes, the majority of people are only in a single income tax bracket (20%). And the Pay As You Earn (PAYE) system means that most people who earn wages or salaries don&#x27;t have to file their taxes. But only looking at income tax doesn&#x27;t take into account the whole picture. &quot;National Insurance&quot; is effectively just an income tax but it&#x27;s far more complicated than the income tax system (it doesn&#x27;t get ring-fenced for pensions or health care or social services, it goes into the same coffers as income tax receipts).<p>But consumption tax is a VAT, which is notoriously expensive to collect. Then there are tax credits on dividends, and various business tax rules. Oh yeah and property tax is paid by the occupier of a house or apartment, not the owner (council tax)! And then there is the City of London that pretty much gets to write it&#x27;s own rules.<p>The UK&#x27;s tax system is better than some, but it&#x27;s possible to do _much_ better.<p>0 - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gov.uk&#x2F;government&#x2F;organisations&#x2F;office-of-tax-simplification" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gov.uk&#x2F;government&#x2F;organisations&#x2F;office-of-tax-si...</a>