The official "Autumn Statement 2015" AKA "End of Contracting" thread

[d000hg]

There you go, much higher stamp duty on BTL.


Good?

[NickFitz]

Who is Gideon?

That's George's real name. He even lies about that.

[AtW]

Isn't he saying that government will no longer collect the business rates - councils will keep it - but they'll no longer get a grant. So as it stands things are net neutral?

No, cretin, they are not tax neutral because councils will be allowed to increase business rates and they will because they had a lot of cuts.

NEW HIGHER STAMP DUTY RATE ON BTL.

[LisaContractorUmbrella]

Additional 3% stamp duty on BTL

[heyya99]

Mr Osborne's real name.

George Osborne MP (born Gideon Oliver Osborne; 23 May 1971)

[AtW]

so far i didnt even hear about dividend tax or was there?

Dividend tax already introduced.

[d000hg]

Learn to read:

As it stands - i.e. initially.

[MarkT]

He is giving lots of good news - no tax credit cuts anymore, more money for NHS, lovely dovely - the people (us) who pays for all this will know the details in PDF at the end of speech

Exactly - I can only imagine how bad this could be, although, to be honest, it'd be an easy sell to attack "PSCs" as everyone sees us as tax avoiders. Fingers crossed......

[MrMarkyMark]

Isn't he saying that government will no longer collect the business rates - councils will keep it - but they'll no longer get a grant. So as it stands things are net neutral?

As they stand today, maybe. Certainly not in the future.

[Unix]

Learn to read:

As it stands - i.e. initially.

Can you and ATW get a room and leave the thread.