The official Budget 2017 DOOM thread

[LondonManc]

Chris Sanger, head of global tax policy at EY, expects Philip Hammond to launch a green paper at the Budget.

“The real question needs to be: are you taking risk and investing in your own business, or are you just investing in your own time?”, he said.

Ugh.

What a surprise that a consultancy firm wants contractors priced out of the market.

[d000hg]

So now you're trying to valiantly defend the Government against claims they are deliberately targeting contractors.

Who are they actually aiming all this cross fire at then dumbass? Old ladies selling home made marmalade?

They're targeting public sector contractors, which things are targeting the rest of us? Public sector contractors are treated as employees anyway

[MrMarkyMark]

They're targeting public sector contractors, which things are targeting the rest of us? Public sector contractors are treated as employees anyway

Jesus, you are more naive then I could have possibly of thought

[AtW]

So tax in Germany is far higher than here. And it's entirely reasonable everyone earning X should pay the same amount of total tax Y.

How is 25% flat rate being far higher than 38.1% in this country???

[AtW]

Declare us all inside IR35? But we can't claim travel expenses but employees can? WALOB

What travel expenses can employees claim? Certainly not to their main place of work.

[d000hg]

Jesus, you are more naive then I could have possibly of thought

Yeah it's all a conspiracy by alien lizards or the Jews or something. Just to get you personally.

How is 25% flat rate being far higher than 38.1% in this country???

Yeah because everyone pays the top rate of tax an 100% of their earnings. You're about as honest as the £350m/week claim when it comes to numbers.

[MrMarkyMark]

Yeah it's all a conspiracy by alien lizards or the Jews or something. Just to get you personally.

Yeah because everyone pays the top rate of tax an 100% of their earnings. You're about as honest as the £350m/week claim when it comes to numbers.

Not at all, me personally? What has that got to do with it

It is a targeted tax campaign, with quoted recovery figures, to catch off payroll workers (Contractors), currently aimed at the PS, with the baying hounds slavering at the Private sector door.

Happy for you to prove me wrong

OK, what is your definition of "earnings"?
Did you used to bunk your maths lesson, or something?

[jamesbrown]

Contractors are not a huge point for the government otherwise we'd see more rules specifically targeting us rather than rules that catch us in the crossfire.

You're deluded, petal. We're precisely what HMG has in mind with a whole raft of recent reforms. Perhaps you missed the opening sentence in the AS about rendering equivalent for tax purposes different forms of income and working, including Sched. D, PSCs (i.e. us), and employees.

[jamesbrown]

They're targeting public sector contractors

Right, so contractors in general are caught in the cross-fire, but PS contractors specifically are being targeted with a laser. Perhaps write your thoughts down first and read them back to yourself.

[MrMarkyMark]

You're deluded, petal. We're precisely what HMG has in mind with a whole raft of recent reforms. Perhaps you missed the opening sentence in the AS about rendering equivalent for tax purposes different forms of income and working, including Sched. D, PSCs (i.e. us), and employees.

Probably busy brushing up on saving taxes, in other areas, as he is now a new landlord.

Luckily, the recent BTL tax changes were not aimed at BTL's either, so all good