Official Summer 2015 Budget Thread

[DimPrawn]

Tory budget today and no threads predicting abolishing IR35, zero tax rates for those earning over £100K, and having a butler becomes a tax deductable expense....

CUK is now officially nothing more than Facebook for contractors.

[PurpleGorilla]

They need to increase pensioner benefits. Green fees are only getting more expensive.

[MarillionFan]

Tax abolished for fans of prog rock.

[DimPrawn]

BTL "investors" need more support. A lot more support. They are the engine of the British economy.

I would suggest you can deduct mortgage interest from your tax bill, and the deposit can be borrowed interest free using a govt "help to get rich scheme". They can fund this using some NHS money that normally get wasted treating poor people or even worse immigrants.

Works for me

[PurpleGorilla]

Student maintenance grants scrapped.

Tories = tulip anyone under the age of 50

[Pondlife]

Looking at the images on the beeb, does anyone else think Osbourne is turning into Mr Spock?

[vetran]

Student maintenance grants scrapped.

Tories = tulip anyone under the age of 50

we have 50% going to UNI job done.

[PurpleGorilla]

we have 50% going to UNI job done.

Yeah that was a dumb labour idea.

[TheFaQQer]

Augmenting IR35 with an alternative, optional vehicle to operate through which will remove any uncertainty that IR35 generates - 30% chance

More details on merging NI and PAYE - 60% chance

Crackdown on aggressive tax avoidance - 100% chance

[BrilloPad]

Crackdown on aggressive tax avoidance - 100% chance

What can be done that has not already been done?