March Budget 2016

helpimcrap · 10 Mar 2016 at 22:53

Couldn't see a post.

What do you reckon is going to happen?

As a student is my life going to be spent in debt? lol

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/mar/16/budget-2016-at-a-glance-key-points

helpimcrap · 11 Mar 2016 at 07:07

estebanrey said:
People who vote 'out' in the upcoming EU referendum pay 10 percentage points more in tax.

Wouldn't surprise me

I have a feeling there will be something in there about the Brexit lot....

helpimcrap · 11 Mar 2016 at 18:45

Rilot said:
Now, if they removed VED entirely and just put an extra 5p on fuel, then it becomes a non-issue as everyone is taxed entirely down to how fuel efficient (and consequently how polluting) their car is. The biggest fuel users - be they low-milage, inefficient drivers with big engines or high mileage drivers - pay the most money full stop.

EXACTLY my view on fuel duty. It's common sense to me....

helpimcrap · 11 Mar 2016 at 19:05

Hikari Kisugi said:
Might not be happy with an extra 16 or 17 p a litre though, would you?
I'd say haulage companies certainly wouldn't be.

Initial shock but overall lower cost. Haulage companies with anything bigger than cars need looking into to make them efficient. Pay more in fuel, less on tax. Balance it.

helpimcrap · 16 Mar 2016 at 19:38

Spook187 said:
The 40% tax threshold should have been set at £60 000.

I agree. To encourage people to succeed... Bet most Tories are around £40-£45k though....

PS added guardian link to first page.

helpimcrap · 16 Mar 2016 at 20:42

Caged said:
Why would 'more money' not be encouragement to succeed but 'even more money' would? The idea that people are getting to £42k and then just kicking back is quite funny.

Because I'm guessing there is more to it than what we see. Tories never do things for others that do not benefit themselves.

helpimcrap · 16 Mar 2016 at 20:43

Freakbro said:
Which is just being tax efficient....It didn't stop you refusing the job paying into the higher tax band though did it

So it's just a stupid statement from helpimcrap, which unfortunately a lot if people seem to think is right

I thank you.

I don't particularly care about that bit so I just take it on face value.

helpimcrap · 16 Mar 2016 at 21:37

Overall though the budget could have been worse I guess - I dislike the disability side that IBS did. Self defeating cut.

Sugar tax is good as is the education to increase maths and stuff.

Making academies - will that improve education?

helpimcrap · 17 Mar 2016 at 17:33

I think we should challenge George Osborne, Iain Duncan Smith and a few others to spend a week in a minimum wage job. And I'd get IDS to spend it in a wheelchair....

Spend a week in someone's shoes and then you will truly see.

helpimcrap · 19 Mar 2016 at 17:45

nkata said:
Ermm no, he is still an MP and paid as such.

Hmmm so MP's do not follow the usual rules they set? Interesting....

helpimcrap · 19 Mar 2016 at 18:58

Nelly said:
Nothing mentioned about the Government proposing to sell the remaining shares in RBS at a loss of almost £22 billion – recouping barely half the £45.5bn poured in to save the bank from collapsing in 2008.

You mean George Osborne has failed at something else?

Give the man a bonus.... Oh....

helpimcrap · 23 Mar 2016 at 13:09

I used to like David Cameron however George Osborne has made him detestable by association which is sad. The budget was ropey as well to the benefit of the rich however was there anything in there that would impact on smaller business owners?