Why saguru sold his house.

[DimPrawn]

Vince Cable: Wealthy homeowners 'must pay their share' with mansion tax - Telegraph

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Tax what you earn, tax what you spend, tax what you buy, tax what you sell, even tax things for just existing.

[Spacecadet]

Vince Cable: Wealthy homeowners 'must pay their share' with mansion tax - Telegraph

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Tax what you earn, tax what you spend, tax what you buy, tax what you sell, even tax things for just existing.

Will they get a rebate if the value of their house goes down?

[Troll]

Vince Cable: Wealthy homeowners 'must pay their share' with mansion tax - Telegraph

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even tax things for just existing.

And of course for dying

[DimPrawn]

And of course for dying

They've missed a "being born" tax. The midwife could collect it on delivery.

[doodab]

Will they get a rebate if the value of their house goes down?

Heretic. House prices don't go down you fool!

[DimPrawn]

Heretic. House prices don't go down you fool!

Indeed. A new BoE service. You ring them up and tell them how much you want your house to increase in value and they print the money and courier it to you in a big box.

[ThomasSoerensen]

Don't forget the beauty of taxes on taxes - VAT on petrol at the filling station is a tax on the base price + the fuel tax.

Can the dear politicians not come up with the next level of meta tax? Are they really that short on creativity?

[doodab]

Don't forget the beauty of taxes on taxes - VAT on petrol at the filling station is a tax on the base price + the fuel tax.

Can the dear politicians not come up with the next level of meta tax? Are they really that short on creativity?

Something like the German "solidarity surcharge" would be perfect. Simply charge an extra 5% of the tax you're already charging.

[ThomasSoerensen]

Something like the German "solidarity surcharge" would be perfect. Simply charge an extra 5% of the tax you're already charging.

Ah yes - how about a beloved new "EURO solidarity surcharge".

That would be very very popular I recon.

[doodab]

How about a soap tax? Then the soap dodgers would be tax dodgers and they'd have to think twice before sounding off.