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Not quite - it doesn't come in until April 2009...
By which time it should buy a couple of litres of diesel.
litre.
"Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny. "
I only saw the first twenty minutes of the budget on TV and it looked as though he had been given the budget speech the night before. I can't believe how often he was tripping up over his words.
"We are going to tackle tax avoidance"....what the feck does that mean?...
...some of you are managing your affairs in a tax efficient way and we are missing out so we are going to move the goalposts and tax you anyway through some ill worded legislation that we can interperet any way that suits us?
Something about 30% of govt contracts available to small businesses ?
Translation: Come and work for us so we know who you are, and we'll make your taxes "simpler" for you.
Yeah, right - Via the likes of EDS or Accenture, or some private sector intermediary, which the Government will instruct to ensure contractors are caught bang to rights by IR35.
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