What does it all mean then?

can we be serious and cut out the in jokes

 

Actually it is the correct answer.

Interestingly, those who get most income as dividends (e.g. contractors) will be stuffed, and have to find a more tax efficient way of paying themselves. And I'd imagine that this type of voter would be the sort that would be courted as a typical Tory. The mood at work is very anti-George, from the previous pro stance!

Edited July 9, 201511 yr by Exiled Girl

We also will be £1487.20 worse off. Just have to get on with it.

For years the conversation on the budget was all about how much booze and fags were going up.

I'm a couple of hundred quid up.

do we know why there is an upper limit?

 

It matches in with higher rate tax so that the real shift is much less stark. You still (now) pay 2% over the threshold.

 

If there was no upper limit we'd have an income tax rate for most professional jobs of over 50%.

It matches in with higher rate tax so that the real shift is much less stark. You still (now) pay 2% over the threshold.

 

If there was no upper limit we'd have an income tax rate for most professional jobs of over 50%.

 

The Upper Earnings Level defines earnings which count towards Additional State Pension.

So the rate above that level is a"nominal" 2%.

Of course once the Additional State Pension ceases to accrue (next year) the logic of that disappears.

Not sure how you mean nominal - I pay it, which is far more relevant than the fake hypothecation for benefits which probably won't exist when my turn comes.

Hypothecation

 

New word on here?

So, how much have booze and fags gone up?

Tell 'em to fuck off.

At least UK State Pensions to Australia remain frozen.

 

 

Tra-la-la, life's good, superannuation down here means the UK pension I paid into will only be a few fragments of the crumbled flake on top of the cream.

 

That's when I decide to claim it that is.  You may not be aware that lump sum cash settlements are available to us should we choose that path. Might just git me my Plymouth Roadrunner.

And in fiscal news down under, Eddie, of Eddie's Towing and MOT, and Chancellor of Australia has announced a 4 cent rise on stubbies, a cut in the weekly dole-bludger money of $12, another increase of 10% tax per kilo of snags, but he's announced an end to duty on driving into the outback with your kids, setting the car on fire and shooting yourself in the head.

 

 

...and here, children, is a prime example of the type of mental ailment which can result from using crystal meth.............................

Keep watching and being informed by american television fiction, Bolty, 'crystal meth' is rare as hen teeth in the UK...There's a dearth of 'bikies' to pedal it, too - even if there was any knocking about the black market.

Quite common down under apparently. The aussie branch of our family have had all sorts of bother with it

It's no surprise, they take most of their cues from America, so why not their druggie culture?

We also will be £1487.20 worse off. Just have to get on with it.

 

I've never had 30 quid a week off the state, but I've put over £100 in  a week for over 30 years

All these calculations need to factor in the BBC tax, which they don't appear to.

Aren't they allowing the 'live' viewing loophole to be closed as well?

Yep, they've pulled a fucking massive one over us all with that, inflation linked rises and the continued criminalisation of non-payment.

 

It's an astronomical amount of money that we give them, £145 is two months council tax payments, yet instead of running a town then run some shit TV channels and a load of middle to upper class radio stations.

I've never had 30 quid a week off the state, but I've put over £100 in  a week for over 30 years

Like to take a guess at how much much I contributed between 1978 and 2010?  I'll give you a clue. In the last year I  paid over 40k and one year over 70k.

Edited July 10, 201511 yr by bgoefc

Yep, they've pulled a fucking massive one over us all with that, inflation linked rises and the continued criminalisation of non-payment.

 

It's an astronomical amount of money that we give them, £145 is two months council tax payments, yet instead of running a town then run some shit TV channels and a load of middle to upper class radio stations.

I hope ISPs won't play ball with this, you watch sommat on iplayer and then get a court summons landing on the doormat...

The BBC and its output for less than the cost of a pint a week is superb value. How much does Sky cost again?

SKY, for all it's faults, is optional. The BBC make some excellent programming, and they also pay talentless cunts through the nose to produce drivel...

The BBC and its output for less than the cost of a pint a week is superb value. How much does Sky cost again?

What output is this? Strictly Come Dancing and Radio 3? Much of its output is an embarrassment.

 

The old "less than a pint" argument, if it's such good value why not use the actual cost as no one pays for their licence weekly? Is it worth £145? Not to me, yet I pay it to avoid being branded a criminal. What is this, North Korea?

 

Sky costs me fuck all. And if it did it would be because I chose to subscript to it.