Budget

[Mad Cyril]

thats £480k well spent!

And I would have a silver hand too.

 

[Davros]

it was scratchcards, honest!

 

[Napster]

£132 better off. Thanks George.

 

[Hotman]

this is in a way why i have never understood the hatred towards large bonuses. Surely if someone gets a £1mil bonus, currently more than half of that goes back into society straight away through tax/NI. If it is however not paid, only 26% goes back into society right away through Corp Tax.

people need to look at the bigger picture, rather than concentrating on what amounts to little more than jealousy

which then gets distributed to investors (via dividends), and personal tax is then applied on top :whistling:

but I'm with you buddy, the ******s are all jealous

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Seems to me that Boy George's Granny tax will bring out the grey vote big time in 2015.Watch out all you Cons/Lib Dems.:thump:

 

[Reg Martin]

Seems to me that Boy George's Granny tax will bring out the grey vote big time in 2015.Watch out all you Cons/Lib Dems.:thump:

I suspect the Cons and the granny vote is rather like Labour and the northern vote - they can always count on it
The thinking behind this budget seems to be a bit of bad publicity now in return for economic gains by time of next election. Whether that thinking is correct only time will tell but at this stage I think a small overall Conservative majority is most likely outcome of 2015 election.

 

[Davros]

I concur. there is obviously huge outcry that the proposed fuel duty hike wasn't cancelled, but if it was cancelled, it would have meant having to eventually raise it closer to the election. I guess the thinking was that allowing the raise to go ahead in August would possibly mean that they may not have to raise it again prior to the 2015 election? That said, 2 and a half years is a long time without a duty hike. The last time there was a gap in fuel duty rise for that long was between October 2003 through to December 2006.