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IELTS 5.5+ I Writing I Discuss Both Views - High Taxes

The document discusses the debate over high taxes for funding public services like roads and schools. Proponents argue that high taxes ensure quality services and promote wealth redistribution, while opponents believe excessive taxation can discourage hard work and foster resentment. The author's opinion supports sensible taxation that balances wealth distribution with incentives for hard work.

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IELTS 5.5+ I Writing I Discuss Both Views - High Taxes

The document discusses the debate over high taxes for funding public services like roads and schools. Proponents argue that high taxes ensure quality services and promote wealth redistribution, while opponents believe excessive taxation can discourage hard work and foster resentment. The author's opinion supports sensible taxation that balances wealth distribution with incentives for hard work.

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IELTS 5.

5+ | Writing
1 – ICA
Discuss both views - High taxes

You should spend 40 minutes on this task.


Write on the following topic:
Some people feel that governments should take a large proportion of people’s
salaries to pay for necessary public services such as roads and schools. Others feel
that high taxes are a bad thing.
Discuss both views and give your own opinion.
Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your
own knowledge and experience.
Write at least 250 words.

It is widely agreed that governments of all countries need a stock of money to draw
on to pay for infrastructure such as roads and services such as education, defence or waste
disposal. A more contentious issue is whether people should be taxed heavily to pay for
these.
Many people feel that all these areas of public life are so vital that we must have
high taxes to ensure that services are of the highest standard. If taxes are too low, the
quality of the provision declines and eventually systems begin to break down and the only
people able to manage are the wealthy. Proponents of high taxation also argue that in
principle it is a good thing to make the wealthiest in society bear the biggest burden of
paying for services for the good of everyone, including the poorest.
On the other hand, if too high a percentage of salaries is taken in tax, it is argued
that people lose the incentive to work hard. Another drawback of high taxation is that it
builds resentment and people start to look for strategies to avoid paying it.
I believe that taxation, managed sensibly, is a good way of redistributing wealth and
I am in favour of the rich supporting the less well off. In the end, this equalising benefits
everyone because if there is too great a gap between rich and poor, resentment develops.
However, I feel hard work should be rewarded so the threshold above which people start
to pay tax should be quite high.
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