You make a sale of £1200 in your business. £200 is VAT. You have £1000. You pay 25% corp tax on it. You have £750. You pay it to yourself as a dividend and pay 20%. You have £600. You spend it, and £100 of the spend was VAT. You have something worth £500. You die and pass that thing onto your kids, and your estate owes 40% in taxes. Your kids have £300. Are you seeing why it's nearly impossible to get ahead in the UK? This is why people are leaving. And it’s even worse in SNP Scotland, where higher taxes and relentless bureaucracy crush ambition further.