Eli5: Why do we tax public sector wages?

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I’m in the UK but I’m sure the logic around much of the world is the same. It seems like an incredibly bureaucratic waste of money to tax public sector wages, rather than just pay the workers upfront what they would get post-tax. I might be missing something though, so hope someone on here might enlighten me if I am!

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Just because you work pulic sector doesn’t change that you have multiple tax situations that your public sector employer is unaware of. How many kids you have, how much your spouse makes, how much you paid in tax free interest on your house, how much you spent on medical costs, etc etc.

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