HMRC's time machine setting sights on all graduates!

[northernladyuk]

I love it how people on an internet forum quickly lose it when they know they're on a losing streak and tippling over the edge. HTH.

Walk away from the discussion. Probably best. I can't work out if you have now worked out that there is no retrospective taxation, or if you're too stupid. Doesn't really matter, I guess.

[NickFitz]

Snowflake brigade out in force, if we have had to pay for our education why shouldn't our elders?

It cuts both ways. Enjoy your outside toilet and having to go down the council baths once a month to have a proper wash

[washed up contractor]

Walk away from the discussion. Probably best. I can't work out if you have now worked out that there is no retrospective taxation, or if you're too stupid. Doesn't really matter, I guess.

Clearly you dont need to practice being a supercilious obnoxious gimp. But whatever, it was fun sparring with you

[BrilloPad]

Snowflake brigade out in force, if we have had to pay for our education why shouldn't our elders?

Because elders vote and young people do not.

[washed up contractor]

Because elders vote and young people do not.

Brillo knows.

[SueEllen]

I'm glad I dropped out. Simply wasting tax payers money on the education (I never turned up for) and all that lovely full grant money I spent on sex, drugs and rock'n'roll.

EDIT : Someone on the news earlier was saying that there is no record of who got a degree prior to 2005 anyway so there's a good cutoff date

Universities have a list of who they graduated but unless you prove who you are you can't get transcripts or another degree certificate.

[vetran]

Trick question - as there's nobody around the monkey simply spends all day on AndyW's Mum

has to be an option

[Whorty]

Why is this an issue? I studied for my degree in the 80's and have absolutely no problem with this. If we expect the current generation to pay a tax for their degree it only seems fair that we do too. An extra 5% or so on future earnings isn't such a hardship for contractors on 100k + a year, surely?

[Eirikur]

The proposal to retrospectively pay tax for university education is of course ridiculous and if you only pay tax for education or public services that you used, I want to pay less tax as well as my children have private education and my family has private health insurance

[BrilloPad]

Why is this an issue? I studied for my degree in the 80's and have absolutely no problem with this. If we expect the current generation to pay a tax for their degree it only seems fair that we do too. An extra 5% or so on future earnings isn't such a hardship for contractors on 100k + a year, surely?

Most of us earn £8k a year. Dividends are discretionary....