Pre-Budget Report

[Elton]

So, VAT is to be reduced, but the duty on fuel increased to 'compensate' for it and National Insurance to increase, too.

 

Is there any incentive to actually work in this country any more? I swear I'd be better off on benefits.

[n4lly]

Vat to be cut as of next monday., just after i've done all the christmas shopping.....Grrr damn you Darling

[barry luxton]

Thanks for nothing darlin, you gonna pay us for the extra time it's gonna take to work out this quarters vat return for you, you toss@r

 

and it will all be for ziltch as you want to get this money back in others stealth ways, roll on the election.

 

Let me have your recipts, n4ally, i'm sure i can make use of them.

 

and i'm making sure all me invoicing is upto date this week, as i don't want me clients thinking they are getting a bargin on my behalf.

Edited November 24, 2008 by barry luxton

[Alan Stubbs]

Now he's Prime Minister, it seems as if Brown has ended his love affair with 'prudence'.

 

So much for his 'end to boom and bust' economics.

 

Sadly, the alternatives seem strangely unappealing, too; their principle saving grace being that they aren't this lot.

 

I'd vote for Alexei Sayle, but anarchists by their very definition can't organise themselve to run anything.

Edited November 24, 2008 by Alan Stubbs

[les middy]

So, VAT is to be reduced, but the duty on fuel increased to 'compensate' for it and National Insurance to increase, too.

 

Is there any incentive to actually work in this country any more? I swear I'd be better off on benefits.

 

thats why I retired early at 60 had nearly 5 years now.

 

and best thing I have done in my life

 

may they continue

[Steve Walker]

So, VAT is to be reduced, but the duty on fuel increased to 'compensate' for it

 

Yes, and the VAT reduction is temporary - I bet he doesn't cut the duty when VAT goes back up in 13 months.

 

and National Insurance to increase, too.

 

Coming on top of the 1% increase across the board, payable on ALL income above the minimum, and the increase in the upper threshold for paying the 11% rate from from £34,840 to £40,040 last year.

[Ken Davison South Wales]

Let's be honest here, it was the bl**dy banks which got us in this mess and so called global trade, I want the banks to cut their charges, we have to pay to bank cash, cheques and card payments plus we have to pay for the card machine.

 

Looking at it overal after all the bl**dy money that was thrown at the banks we are lucky to get the crumbs.

[Steve Walker]

Yes, and the VAT reduction is temporary - I bet he doesn't cut the duty when VAT goes back up in 13 months.

 

Ta-da!!

 

With all the unpredictability of Christmas Day falling on Dec 25...

 

No, the increase in duty meant to stop us getting any benefit from reduced VAT on petrol will not be removed when the VAT goes back up, and in fact an extra two pence per litre was added in September and will be followed by another penny in April 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013.

 

Just call me Mystic Meg.

[DavyR]

With all the unpredictability of Christmas Day falling on Dec 25...

 

Unless you're Russian Orthodox, in which case it's Jan 7.

[pfcruleok]

Your right there Ken, the banks have alot to answer for in my opinion.

The amount of our money that has been ploughed into them works out at £5500 per family !!!!

 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbys...per-family.html

 

Then there's the bonuses that are being paid to those that run these banks. More than 5000 bankers will earn at least £1million this year !

 

http://www.citywire.co.uk/personal/-/news/....aspx?ID=371146

 

Smacks of self-interest and greed and i have just been told that i will not be getting my annual pay rise next year !

 

Sorry rant over.

 

I need to go fishing.