No To Retro Tax – Campaign Against Section 58 Finance Act 2008

[TalkingCheese]

I am not aware if my MP actually made it to the briefing or not. Is there a list of attendees or should I be asking him if he attended and seeking feedback, or do we leave them alone for the moment?

Whitehouse have follow ups for attendees and non attendees all in hand so best leave alone for now. If you want to ask specifically about your MP please contact Carl.Thomson at whitehouseconsulting.co.uk

[javadude]

Whitehouse have follow ups for attendees and non attendees all in hand so best leave alone for now.

Excellent

[DonkeyRhubarb]

Article in Accountancy Live about briefing event

Pressure mounts on MPs to review retrospective s58 tax rule | Accountancy Live

[smalldog]

Pressure mounts on MPs to review retrospective s58 tax rule | Accountancy Live

what a brilliant piece of promotion for us. IF nothing else the mention of pressure almost creates it which is brill!!! I really feel pressure is starting to mount, when is the finance bill?

[lucozade]

Pressure mounts on MPs to review retrospective s58 tax rule | Accountancy Live

Excellent. Well done guys and girls.

[SantaClaus]

Even now, we're still getting new members signing up.

If you haven't done it yet, now is the time to join!

[MMSguru]

Pressure mounts on MPs to review retrospective s58 tax rule | Accountancy Live

Fantastic job NTRT team.

[MrX]

Pressure mounts on MPs to review retrospective s58 tax rule | Accountancy Live

Again, the question of morality crops up. I've just analysed my income and expenditure as I need to make some reductions on my expenditure because my income (contract rate) keeps going down (unlike the public sector):

• My mortgage is one where I need to seek advice from a Mortgage Broker in order to to reduce expenditure.
• My gas and electricity bill is quite high so I need to go to a comparison website in order to find a deal.
• My tax bill is large so I need to talk to a tax consultant about how to reduce expenditure.

Is tax really that different to all my other outgoings? Do I need to pay the worst case in order to support the government spending and help, amongst other things, people on benefits? Perhaps, I shouldn't cut down on my Starbucks spending else the people who work there will be out of a job!

[smalldog]

Again, the question of morality crops up. I've just analysed my income and expenditure as I need to make some reductions on my expenditure because my income (contract rate) keeps going down (unlike the public sector):

• My mortgage is one where I need to seek advice from a Mortgage Broker in order to to reduce expenditure.
• My gas and electricity bill is quite high so I need to go to a comparison website in order to find a deal.
• My tax bill is large so I need to talk to a tax consultant about how to reduce expenditure.

Is tax really that different to all my other outgoings? Do I need to pay the worst case in order to support the government spending and help, amongst other things, people on benefits? Perhaps, I shouldn't cut down on my Starbucks spending else the people who work there will be out of a job!

makes you wonder where it will end, next thing will be that any disposable income saved rather than given over to the taxman is immoral and not in the best interests of the country. Slow steady slip towards communism!

[Guttersnipe]

makes you wonder where it will end, next thing will be that any disposable income saved rather than given over to the taxman is immoral and not in the best interests of the country. Slow steady slip towards communism!

This may make me unpopular, but taxes do, at least partly, go towards many of those things that make us a functioning society. I have problems with the implementers and use of the money I pay in taxes but not the concept of taxation as being different from commercial agreements. Wihtout something of this sort life is "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short."