Budget next week !

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S J H

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Lamb's Orchard said:
Wouldn't surprise me. We all pay it on almost everything,. Perhaps the plan is to freeze it until all small businesses have to register then abolish the threshold as obsolete. šŸ˜Ÿ
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Iā€™m sure Philip Hammond was after it and getting rid of ā€™sole tradersā€™ running as a limited company.
 
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Council bailouts are tiny compared to the cost of an aircraft carrier that seems to be almost always broken, and that might have to sold to Australia as we can't afford to run two...
 
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2% off NI sounds a lot, but the sleight of hand is that it touches far fewer people, much less than 1% Income tax cut would.
Personally I'd prefer that they raised Income Tax 1%, and made damned sure that everybody paid it. End Non-dom status, offshore profits, etc.
Then set about reforming the NHS, which seems doomed to be perpetually underfunded, however much money is hosed at it.
This stuff is capable of being fixed, but not by politicians who only have an eye to the next election.
 
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David. said:
2% off NI sounds a lot, but the sleight of hand is that it touches far fewer people, much less than 1% Income tax cut would.
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Sleight of hand sums it up.

Not much benefit cutting the rates when the income tax thresholds are frozen and inflation is dragging more and more people into higher tax bands.

Give Ā£1 with one hand, take Ā£2 with the other.
 
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britishblue said:
I think the 700'000 legal migrants will be a bigger drain on the economy. With all the families and dependants that tag along with the overseas students! 30'000 illegals although will cost a fortune but smaller fortune than the legals!
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I refer to the legal ones as illegal because they dont do anything for the economy, but yes its all of them.
 
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David.

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The immigrants I have encountered, driving trucks, wiping the arses of old folks, and emptying dustbins, seem okay, tbh.
I love it when a thread descends into cheap stereotyping.
Any immigrant who is working and paying taxes is a long way higher up the moral ladder than a blue blooded white man, with all his financial holdings safely hidden in the Caymans. In my book anywayšŸ¤·ā€ā™‚ļø.
 
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Immigrants who work and pay taxes are more use to this country than the layabout Brits that won't work, they are the ones we should be deporting or at least removing benefits from.
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Just to clarify I was referring to the ones that dont work. So the boat arrivals and then the hanger ons - the ones that come over on the back of a worker but themselves dont work and just claim from the system.
 
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