Buy you new bikes now then!

VAT and all that.

Pretty good budget but 20% will smart a bit. Hey Ho.
Shame about the huge cop out on child benefit, not cutting it out for all
but the low paid that is.

I expected that a flat tax system was too much to get in this early on.

 

Indeed, looks like I now need to get Bikes, Consumer Electronics,
Building work, and some other stuff all sorted out this year.

No more procrastinating.

 

****. Building work. **** yes.

6 months should be enough.

Lets hope they deal with the Lothian Question soon also.

 

No it won't - you'll barely notice it.

 

Quite. £2.12 on every £100 pre-increase total bill.

 

Only if you buy stuff.

 

One is alive therefor

 

One has a motorbike & a passport - everything else is irrelevant.

 

This one has been discussed to death for many years. The extra cost
of administering a means tested version of child benefit would be
more than the money it could save.
Dont expect to see any progress until nu-nu-labour get in and start
looking for ways to create more wasteful public sector jobs for
the boys.

 

gurgled happily, sounding much like they were
saying:

How's it claimed at the moment? It should be relatively simple to do an
additional check to see if the claimant is a higher-rate tax payer.

 

I could think up an easy to operate system in a jiffy.
Hold on.
Yep, got it.

Don't compensate anyone to Sprog.
For those actually claiming benefits make an allowance to feed & cloth
sprogs part of the process. They already have to account for their
circumstances.

 

Who made you the 'voice of reason'?

 

<hangs head in shame>

I keep hearing that an aging population is a crisis and we need a higher
birthrate and immigration. What utter not_thought_through bollocks. People
are going to be working much later into their life so we need employers to
restructure their practices such that people in their 50-60-70's are
substantially employed doing most things and younger people substantially do
what is more difficult for people who are much older.

For instance when I walk into a bank the Tellers would reasonably be people
around what is currently thought of as retirement age. Most people that age
are sharp as pins. Same goes for call and customer service centers. ATM I
find people in their 20-40's involved.

The last thing we need is a larger population. Here or anywhere else.

 

Who made you the 'voice of reason'?

 

I don't have a Tanto to hand

 

I claim child benefit. I also earn quite a bit of money.

I also pay fuckloads of tax and national insurance a month.

So I view the national insurance as a savings account that I can get a
bit of it back every once in a while. I also claim tax credits, and
everything else I can. I figure I've put plenty into the system, I
should be able to get some of it back.

And frankly, it's pretty much impossible not to claim child benefit.

 

I totally agree with you but Hog has obviously made sure that his ex
has never claimed a penny for their son because that would mark him
down as some kind of a hypocrite.

 

Lets go back to an original premise. Paying tax then claiming it back in
benefits is hugely inefficient and sustains an army of civil servants.
Paying less tax and not having to **** around with State handouts makes more
sense, no?

 

WTF my ex wife has got to do with an effective tax policy is anyones guess
but you go right on speculating.

 

Wrong!
I don't claim, can't claim and prolly never will be able to.
I don't get tax credits or any help for that matter. And I pay shit loads of
tax and NI.
I've got no kids so get penalised on all fronts and _can't_ claim Child
benefit!
I do however, seem to be paying for a lot of other peoples' little bastards
to enjoy a good education though.
I think it's about time the poor unfortunate people that don't have kids got
a look in on the benefit system a tad.

IIRC Child benefit or whatever you want to call it was originally brought in
after the war to encourage re-population. I don't think it has any place in
this modern society and people should be encouraged to have smaller
families.

Just my 2d worth