Curiosity wrote:
I predict a riot a freeze on fuel duty and scrapping of the beer escalator (which isn't as cool as it sounds).
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| Author: | MaliA [ Wed Mar 20, 2013 10:13 ] |
| Post subject: | Budget 2015 (was 2013) |
It is budget day here in the UK, and pluck, lucky, George "Austerity" Osbourne, the big AO bomb as he is known in the cabinet, will be picking the winning numbers from his big red box and they, the lucky few, probably will not have their departments decimated. What do we expect from this budget? My top picks! Beer up 10p a pint Fags up 30p a packet Fuel stays the same More money to poor families Less money to the arts You can't cut funding, you will regret this! Posturing punitive tax on one person Fugly tax held VAT increase Place bets now, and join in the fun on the UK goverment's big wheel of misfortune! |
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| Author: | Kern [ Wed Mar 20, 2013 10:17 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Budget 2013 |
'We inherited the situation from the previous administration' |
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| Author: | Curiosity [ Wed Mar 20, 2013 10:18 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Budget 2013 |
I'd rather have Myp in charge of the budget, and he's a blithering idiot. |
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| Author: | Grim... [ Wed Mar 20, 2013 10:19 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Budget 2013 |
Beer can't keep going up, can it? There's so much on it now that London pays more alcohol duty than Germany. |
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| Author: | Kern [ Wed Mar 20, 2013 10:19 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Budget 2013 |
Grim... wrote: Beer can't keep going up, can it? There's so much on it now that London pays more alcohol duty than Germany. HMG are very fond of the duty escalator. |
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| Author: | Curiosity [ Wed Mar 20, 2013 10:21 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Budget 2013 |
Grim... wrote: Beer can't keep going up, can it? There's so much on it now that The Jerusalem Bar pays more alcohol duty than Germany. FTFQN |
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| Author: | Kern [ Wed Mar 20, 2013 10:25 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Budget 2013 |
Grim... wrote: Beer can't keep going up, can it? There's so much on it now that London pays more alcohol duty than Germany. It's almost as if they don't want people going into pubs. Still, at least the ridiculous 'minimum pricing' idea seems to be dead in the water - sin taxes should at least benefit the government, not the big breweries. |
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| Author: | Curiosity [ Wed Mar 20, 2013 10:35 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Budget 2013 |
I predict a riot a freeze on fuel duty and scrapping of the beer escalator (which isn't as cool as it sounds). |
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| Author: | Wullie [ Wed Mar 20, 2013 11:14 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Budget 2013 |
More taxes, more money for MPs, more money spunked on nothing, less money for everything else. |
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| Author: | MrChris [ Wed Mar 20, 2013 12:42 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Budget 2013 |
Grim... wrote: Beer can't keep going up, can it? There's so much on it now that London pays more alcohol duty than Germany. Drinking, and particularly drinking to violent, messy excess, is a basic human right of every Englishman, and has been for centuries. Hands off our way of life! etc |
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| Author: | Grim... [ Wed Mar 20, 2013 12:51 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Budget 2013 |
Mr Kissyfur wrote: Grim... wrote: Beer can't keep going up, can it? There's so much on it now that London pays more alcohol duty than Germany. Drinking, and particularly drinking to violent, messy excess, is a basic human right of every Englishman, and has been for centuries. Hands off our way of life! etc As long as the poor can't do it, I suppose. Rich thugs are just fine. |
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| Author: | MrChris [ Wed Mar 20, 2013 13:06 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Budget 2013 |
Grim... wrote: Mr Kissyfur wrote: Grim... wrote: Beer can't keep going up, can it? There's so much on it now that London pays more alcohol duty than Germany. Drinking, and particularly drinking to violent, messy excess, is a basic human right of every Englishman, and has been for centuries. Hands off our way of life! etc As long as the poor can't do it, I suppose. Rich thugs are just fine. Heh. I suspect increase in duty won't make any difference to the price of a four pack in TEH ASDAS though. |
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| Author: | MaliA [ Wed Mar 20, 2013 13:15 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Budget 2013 |
Mr Kissyfur wrote: Grim... wrote: Mr Kissyfur wrote: Grim... wrote: Beer can't keep going up, can it? There's so much on it now that London pays more alcohol duty than Germany. Drinking, and particularly drinking to violent, messy excess, is a basic human right of every Englishman, and has been for centuries. Hands off our way of life! etc As long as the poor can't do it, I suppose. Rich thugs are just fine. Heh. I suspect increase in duty won't make any difference to the price of a four pack in TEH ASDAS though. I hope not, as CoOp's Continental Lager is quite nice, and good value at less than £4. |
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| Author: | Dimrill [ Wed Mar 20, 2013 13:33 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Budget 2013 |
Evening Standard knows, you know. |
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| Author: | Grim... [ Wed Mar 20, 2013 14:19 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Budget 2013 |
Cheaper beer, whoo! |
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| Author: | chinnyhill10 [ Wed Mar 20, 2013 14:20 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Budget 2013 |
Curiosity wrote: I predict a riot a freeze on fuel duty and scrapping of the beer escalator (which isn't as cool as it sounds).
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| Author: | Anonymous X [ Wed Mar 20, 2013 14:59 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Budget 2013 |
Grim... wrote: Mr Kissyfur wrote: Grim... wrote: Beer can't keep going up, can it? There's so much on it now that London pays more alcohol duty than Germany. Drinking, and particularly drinking to violent, messy excess, is a basic human right of every Englishman, and has been for centuries. Hands off our way of life! etc As long as the poor can't do it, I suppose. Rich thugs are just fine. FWIW, as a strict non-drinker, I don't like the almost collective punishment approach to drinking taxation either. It's a crude, blunt instrument to tackle a cultural problem that can't be 'fixed' with simple knee jerk measures. |
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| Author: | ApplePieOfDestiny [ Wed Mar 20, 2013 16:29 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Budget 2013 |
CUNTS |
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| Author: | Curiosity [ Wed Mar 20, 2013 16:40 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Budget 2013 |
ApplePieOfDestiny wrote: CUNTS Which bit(s)? |
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| Author: | Trooper [ Wed Mar 20, 2013 17:01 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Budget 2013 |
Apparently i'm going to be £124 better off next year. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-17442946 |
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| Author: | MaliA [ Wed Mar 20, 2013 17:06 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Budget 2013 |
Trooper wrote: £148 personally, as a unit, £318! NEW BIKE TIME! or a clutch. OUT OF AUSTERITY AND INTO THE ELYSIUM FIELDS |
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| Author: | Squirt [ Wed Mar 20, 2013 17:13 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Budget 2013 |
£151 better off! *lights cigar with a 50 note* |
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| Author: | BikNorton [ Wed Mar 20, 2013 17:20 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Budget 2013 |
Beer duty escalator scrapped, a penny off duty... yet the BBC thing says £1.10 per pint worse off? What? |
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| Author: | MrChris [ Wed Mar 20, 2013 17:42 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Budget 2013 |
£24.91 better off, without taking into account the alcohol. Frankly the government needs to do more to look after those of us who are losing child benefit (which was last year's loss, of course, so I'm £24.91 better off on a negative £1,800 position), the bastards. What do I get? Nothing! Not even a married couple's tax break. WHO WILL THINK OF THE MODERATELY WELL OFF? PAH |
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| Author: | MrChris [ Wed Mar 20, 2013 17:44 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Budget 2013 |
"Pottery industry in Midlands to be exempt from climate change levy" THANK THE LORD. |
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| Author: | Goddess Jasmine [ Wed Mar 20, 2013 19:07 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Budget 2013 |
£258 better off apparently. |
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| Author: | Grim... [ Wed Mar 20, 2013 19:16 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Budget 2013 |
£345 worse off 
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| Author: | ApplePieOfDestiny [ Wed Mar 20, 2013 20:36 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Budget 2013 |
Curiosity wrote: ApplePieOfDestiny wrote: CUNTS Which bit(s)? A bit that hasn't been reported yet, but will be. |
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| Author: | MrChris [ Wed Mar 20, 2013 21:51 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Budget 2013 |
Is it a one off Riles tax? |
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| Author: | MaliA [ Wed Mar 20, 2013 21:52 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Budget 2013 |
Mr Kissyfur wrote: Is it a one off Riles tax? Point 7 on my predictions. |
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| Author: | ApplePieOfDestiny [ Wed Mar 20, 2013 22:09 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Budget 2013 |
Mr Kissyfur wrote: Is it a one off Riles tax? Potentially. Except for the one off bit. |
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| Author: | Mimi [ Wed Mar 20, 2013 22:21 ] |
| Post subject: | Budget 2013 |
I think we came out at about £540 better off. |
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| Author: | Mr Russell [ Wed Mar 20, 2013 22:32 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Budget 2013 |
Except for the bit where I underpaid a previous year's tax by £740. |
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| Author: | Grim... [ Wed Jul 08, 2015 12:38 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Budget 2013 |
Let's borrow this thread. The first Tory budget since 1996! |
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| Author: | ApplePieOfDestiny [ Wed Jul 08, 2015 12:47 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Budget 2013 |
Whatever happens, this will be the best budget for me personally since 2001. Because I'm not at work. |
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| Author: | MrChris [ Wed Jul 08, 2015 13:02 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Budget 2013 |
I'm pleased that it sounds like I may be paying less tax. Finally a Tory government that actually does something for me. |
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| Author: | Grim... [ Wed Jul 08, 2015 13:03 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Budget 2013 |
Fuel tax frozen until March. Hurrah! |
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| Author: | ApplePieOfDestiny [ Wed Jul 08, 2015 13:19 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Budget 2013 |
Dividends taxed sensibly for the first time since 1998. Me to spend nine months talking about little else to clients. |
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| Author: | Grim... [ Wed Jul 08, 2015 13:20 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Budget 2013 |
Corporation tax to be cut to 19% in 2017, followed by a cut to 18% in 2020. |
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| Author: | ApplePieOfDestiny [ Wed Jul 08, 2015 13:29 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Budget 2013 |
Grim... wrote: Corporation tax to be cut to 19% in 2017, followed by a cut to 18% in 2020. Meh |
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| Author: | Grim... [ Wed Jul 08, 2015 13:30 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Budget 2013 |
Holy fuck, child support is going to be capped to two children. It's more complicated than that, but he's talking to fast for me to keep up. |
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| Author: | Grim... [ Wed Jul 08, 2015 13:38 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Budget 2013 |
New minimum wage of £7.20 next April, going up to £9 in 2020. |
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| Author: | Mr Russell [ Wed Jul 08, 2015 13:49 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Budget 2013 |
Grim... wrote: Holy fuck, child support is going to be capped to two children. It's more complicated than that, but he's talking to fast for me to keep up. My work colleague just commented "It's a bit China." |
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| Author: | Trousers [ Wed Jul 08, 2015 13:49 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Budget 2013 |
ApplePieOfDestiny wrote: Dividends taxed sensibly for the first time since 1998. Me to spend nine months talking about little else to clients. Screws most of my PSC clients over though. DAMN. |
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| Author: | asfish [ Wed Jul 08, 2015 13:51 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Budget 2013 |
Nice to see they are hitting wealthy tax dodgers ( a little bit) as well as making people with legacy subsidised housing who can afford market rent pay it Thought the proposal to pay 10K a year to recipients of the GC and VC medals was a nice touch as well |
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| Author: | MaliA [ Wed Jul 08, 2015 14:05 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Budget 2015 (was 2013) |
Was it as bad as that bloke who shouts in town said it was going to be? |
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| Author: | Kern [ Wed Jul 08, 2015 15:16 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Budget 2015 (was 2013) |
Has beer duty gone up? |
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| Author: | MaliA [ Wed Jul 08, 2015 15:21 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Budget 2015 (was 2013) |
Kern wrote: Has beer duty gone up? No. You are still expected to drink a pint a night |
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| Author: | JohnCoffey [ Wed Jul 08, 2015 16:39 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Budget 2015 (was 2013) |
Not too bad really. I'm quite pleased that they're making WRAG payments the same as the dole, as IMO that's the most abused benefit we have in Britain. "Ow, I hurt my back, now give me £60 extra per week". And there's no way to disprove that, and people taking the fucking piss with it. As much as it pains me I do try to watch these programmes with people on benefits. I remember seeing one guy who was smoking weed all day abusing the system. He ended up going inside for stabbing some one (oh yeah, lovely bloke) Maxwell IIRC. Well it's cunts like that this will get rid of. They'll also get rid of the "Slapper who has kid every two years instead of a job" type too. That will no longer be a job option to local WETS. |
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| Author: | Jem [ Wed Jul 08, 2015 16:59 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Budget 2015 (was 2013) |
You know... benefit abuse is a tiny, tiny part of the overall benefit spend despite what the Daily Mail would have you believe. |
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