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Mini Budget aka Fiscal Statement

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    Originally posted by AtW View Post
    «It will be means-tested, so that if you have enough money to afford a five or six thousand a year energy bill you will just have to pay it yourself. Help will be concentrated on people who can’t afford to stay warm.»

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business...ing-come-mess/
    Well, I just got my letter from HMRC ref my state pension. Lucky I'm not just relying on it...£8,898 a year. Now if £2500 minimum of that was just going on heating?

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      Originally posted by Lost It View Post

      Well, I just got my letter from HMRC ref my state pension. Lucky I'm not just relying on it...£8,898 a year. Now if £2500 minimum of that was just going on heating?
      If you were just relying on that you would get your £14 a week pension credit plus all the other benefits linked to you claiming that.
      "You’re just a bad memory who doesn’t know when to go away" JR

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        Originally posted by Lost It View Post

        Well, I just got my letter from HMRC ref my state pension. Lucky I'm not just relying on it...£8,898 a year. Now if £2500 minimum of that was just going on heating?
        I've long reckoned that state pension is way too low, and that increasing it would help older people exit the labour market, which I think would be a good thing, especially for those in regions where life expectancy is not that great.

        Yet, 'almost a third of people did not expect to have any pension provision beyond the State Pension when they retired'
        (source: https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulat...018tomarch2020)


        I reckon that mine will probably cover utility bills and council tax - if it's not abolished by then!

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          Originally posted by Lost It View Post

          Well, I just got my letter from HMRC ref my state pension. Lucky I'm not just relying on it...£8,898 a year. Now if £2500 minimum of that was just going on heating?
          Move to a nice little flat?
          Originally posted by MaryPoppins
          I'd still not breastfeed a nazi
          Originally posted by vetran
          Urine is quite nourishing

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            Ir35 chat on BBC news now

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              Originally posted by Unix View Post
              Ir35 chat on BBC news now
              It's a bit daft, even by Hunt's own figures it saves something like 2bn a year which is nearly the smallest saving of the list.
              Originally posted by MaryPoppins
              I'd still not breastfeed a nazi
              Originally posted by vetran
              Urine is quite nourishing

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                Originally posted by d000hg View Post

                It's a bit daft, even by Hunt's own figures it saves something like 2bn a year which is nearly the smallest saving of the list.
                But it's £2bn and the incremental effects of a bunch of smaller measures were quite large, plus the average Joe either doesn't understand it or works in an office with IT contractors and looks at them as "scumbag tax avoiders". Just read the comments in the FT any time there's an article on IR35

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                  Originally posted by Lost It View Post

                  Well, I just got my letter from HMRC ref my state pension. Lucky I'm not just relying on it...£8,898 a year. Now if £2500 minimum of that was just going on heating?
                  The state pension is only vaguely viable to live off if there are two of you in a couple receiving it. Most of the big outgoings like heating, electricity, water, running a car etc are pretty much the same whether there's one person or two in a household.
                  Scoots still says that Apr 2020 didn't mark the start of a new stock bull market.

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                    Originally posted by jamesbrown View Post

                    But it's £2bn and the incremental effects of a bunch of smaller measures were quite large, plus the average Joe either doesn't understand it or works in an office with IT contractors and looks at them as "scumbag tax avoiders". Just read the comments in the FT any time there's an article on IR35
                    It's not even £2bn in truth, it's more like a loss all things considered. As HMT have been told on numerous occasions: it seems we have another chancellor who is driven by the Treasury civil service rather than harsh reality.
                    Blog? What blog...?

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                      Originally posted by malvolio View Post

                      It's not even £2bn in truth, it's more like a loss all things considered. As HMT have been told on numerous occasions: it seems we have another chancellor who is driven by the Treasury civil service rather than harsh reality.
                      We all know that. But that is not the metric here. The metric is whether it can be squared with OBR (and, hence, the markets).

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