Grit, you say you don't really know the tax system. Well I do. It's pretty much impossible for anybody *not on benefits* to end up paying more as a result of moving up a tax bracket. I would say impossible, but I add the "pretty much" to allow for the possibility of a situation I have never heard of and can't imagine.
For a brief moment in 2010 there was the possibility of a new rule that might cause it if you went from exactly the right salary (about £120k) to exactly the right salary (something like £125k) whilst also making exactly the right penbsion conbtributions (above something like £40k). But that rule change never happened in the end.
Other than that, I can't think of any such poosibility unless, as I say, you are also on benefits, which I doubt applies to people supposedly turning down massive bonuses.
I think if somebody wants to seriously persist with the claim that it is possible, they really need to also explain the general mechanism under which it can happen. Otherwise, it's just a matter of faith, which I lack.
For a brief moment in 2010 there was the possibility of a new rule that might cause it if you went from exactly the right salary (about £120k) to exactly the right salary (something like £125k) whilst also making exactly the right penbsion conbtributions (above something like £40k). But that rule change never happened in the end.
Other than that, I can't think of any such poosibility unless, as I say, you are also on benefits, which I doubt applies to people supposedly turning down massive bonuses.
I think if somebody wants to seriously persist with the claim that it is possible, they really need to also explain the general mechanism under which it can happen. Otherwise, it's just a matter of faith, which I lack.