Reply With QuoteI wonder how many folk will try taking a pay cut to £149k and working out some form of bonus scheme on top instead?Originally Posted by Westy
Actually, scratch that. Share options ahoy.
Main bits :
A 50% income tax rate for those earning £150,000 or more a year will come in from April next year.
All long-term unemployed under 25s to be offered job or training
Alcohol and cigarettes taxes to go up 2% from midnight
Fuel duty to rise by 2p per litre from September
From next month motorists to get £2,000 discount on new cars if they trade in cars older than 10 years - this will remain in place until March 2010
Public borrowing to increase to £175bn this year
Borrowing levels to rise by £173bn, £140bn, £118bn and £97bn in years after
Tax relief on pensions for those paid more than £150,000 to be reduced
Mr Darling says he will announce plans later to reduce UK carbon emissions by 34% by 2020.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8011882.stm
I can hear folking earning over £150k pack their bags already.
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I wonder how many folk will try taking a pay cut to £149k and working out some form of bonus scheme on top instead?
Actually, scratch that. Share options ahoy.
The interval between birth and death is fractal. Any given moment is infinitely deep and rich, and therefore one lifetime is quite enough for me.
that same nonsense was peddled in 1997 when the rich were all meant to be upping sticks when Labour got in. It's right out of the Daily Fail playbook.
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nope. neither did Frank Bruno or Lionel Blair. The only public figure I can think of who threatened to do so and actually did was Phil Collins.
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Busy night at the offies before the tax goes up?
means adam may get a car that hasn't got it's own algae growing on it now
when i am in charge everyone who is LOVELY will get a BIG HAT, that will be THE LAW.
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You'd rather some other car's algae was growing on it?
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According to the BBC's budget calculator, I'll be £33 worse off
I'm about £99 better off.
£61 better off apparently, but i've still to get a car so that'll probably sink like a stone
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im apparently 200 quid better off.
£330 up. That'll buy a lot of tat when I'm in Egypt next week.
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It's fuel that's buggering me. If I didn't drive 20 miles a day I'd be £40 better off.
Still no takin' the bus though.
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