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Petition to get the gov to reconsider the dividend tax changes
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I'd rather the agency/IR35 proposal got vetoed. We get very good tax breaks at the moment and while I'd know what to do better with 2k than gorgeous George, it's pin money compared to having to go inside IR35 and the expenses scheme. -
If we get to 1 Million?
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Originally posted by DimPrawn View PostI thought the 5K dividend band is within the existing income bands, not in addition to it? That's what makes it rather nasty.Leave a comment:
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Originally posted by VectraMan View PostWHS. You can earn £10K as salary plus £5K as dividends largely tax free. How much does any of this affect anyone on a low income?
The petition is a waste of time for sure, but if you're going to have a petition it would be better if it wasn't based on a lie.Leave a comment:
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WHS. You can earn £10K as salary plus £5K as dividends largely tax free. How much does any of this affect anyone on a low income?
The petition is a waste of time for sure, but if you're going to have a petition it would be better if it wasn't based on a lie.Leave a comment:
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Originally posted by NonnyMouse View PostBecause the aim is to save you 2-3k of new tax each year.
It also weakens the petition to be built on untruths... they'll take one look and say "you contractors are not low-earners working long hours".
And people running a traditional small business, who do typically work extremely long hours for little income, are not really going to be affected to the same extent, if at all, because they are not maxing out their personal income to the higher rate using dividends.Leave a comment:
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Originally posted by d000hg View PostSince I don't agree with most of that, and doubt many contractors would, why would I sign? It makes it sound like owning a business is pretty terrible, so I suggest those people stop doing something that makes them miserable .Leave a comment:
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Life as a business owner means very long hours, low pay, stress, no holiday or sick pay & a life of uncertainty & worry.Leave a comment:
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Originally posted by AtW View PostSigned, but it's obvious Osborne won't give a flying fook, if anything he'd use it to show how few people pentitioned him and thus the changes are ok.
Some of us will continue. Some will go perm. Some will find other careers. Some will emigrate. Some will just quit. And nobody will notice. A few tens of thousands of contractors will be replaced from the subcontinent in the invisible blink of an eye.
Maybe quality of service will be lowered by diluting the skilled pool with less expensive resources: who will notice? Crap IT will be "IT is crap", it will not be "I wish we hadn't driven out all our home-grown flexible professionals".Leave a comment:
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