Tax cuts abound

[tractor]

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You need to look no further than the Scottish independence threads to see how easy it is to get mugged. Promise a few people a tax cut and the mugs vote you back in.

Funny thing is, 5 years ago, you were all pushing for an increase to the 40% lower threshold, now you would be just happy with an increase to the 45% lower threshold.

How times change?

You know what the saddest thing is? That there is no real alternative.

HMRC will never let any government remove IR35. It is there as a deterrent, not a taxation measure. If it went, the floodgates would open and they would not allow it. The reason they don't publish the IR35 tax take is because it's not even important enough to count. I bet they know how much they take from those using brollies and that is their justification.

[DodgyAgent]

When is this tax cut going to come in? 2020? You'll all have forgotten it by then. Its just noise.

Didn't Dave promise to cut inheritance tax before the last election?

On the EU more noise. Dave's never veteo'd a treaty. And the EU budget has gone up not down. His stance in the make believe EU negotiations is laughable.

Just about the worst speech since John Major's last one. Miliband's is an idiot but at least there's some honesty in what he says.

And trying to win votes on the back of family tragedy? Dear God.

the speech was very good in that it appealed to the broad masses of the middle class. Cameron is often held to be out of touch as are his eton "cronies" I think this has more to do with inferiority complexes than reality. Someone who has lost a child through illness and has been through his experience with the NHS is hardly someone who is out of touch,. he is right to play it in order to silence the bigots of the left.

[Jack Kada]

You need to look no further than the Scottish independence threads to see how easy it is to get mugged. Promise a few people a tax cut and the mugs vote you back in.

Funny thing is, 5 years ago, you were all pushing for an increase to the 40% lower threshold, now you would be just happy with an increase to the 45% lower threshold.

How times change?

You know what the saddest thing is? That there is no real alternative.

HMRC will never let any government remove IR35. It is there as a deterrent, not a taxation measure. If it went, the floodgates would open and they would not allow it. The reason they don't publish the IR35 tax take is because it's not even important enough to count. I bet they know how much they take from those using brollies and that is their justification.

This is really a very good post. It is spot on the money if you ask me. IR35 has been nothing but a grey area in which many rogue operators trk and exploite on the basis that they have information which you do not

[Zero Liability]

HMRC chief amongst them.