Budget 2013

[hyperD]

Spend.
Print.
Steal.
Spend.
Print.
Steal.

Repeat ad infinitum...

[OwlHoot]

CUK Grub Club to be taxed at 99%, only jam sandwiches at the next meetup.

(When is that btw, I'm around)

Tuesday usually, but isn't that your Morris dancing practice night?

[VectraMan]

Abolishing the small business CT rate, and making it 20% for all companies from 2015.

[portseven]

"The government will name and shame companies who promote themselves as tax avoiders."

Who's that then? Starbucks? Barclays? My Local Accountant?

[vetran]

"The government will name and shame companies who promote themselves as tax avoiders."

Who's that then? Starbucks? Barclays? My Local Accountant?

nope I think edgy accountants & those selling tax avoidance schemes. not sure how they will do that.

[Ignis Fatuus]

Telegraph live feed:

12.54 Osborne has a frog in his throat. He pauses to clear it.

this is either more or less information than I really wanted.

[VectraMan]

"The government will name and shame companies who promote themselves as tax avoiders."

It was "who promote tax avoidance schemes". So yes, your accountant, and James Nead who emailed me earlier to tell me I could be keeping 90% of my contracting income "using a legal payment solution that is being used by lots of UK Contractors with very little risk."

[VectraMan]

1p off beer from Sunday.

[d000hg]

My gosh Cameron looks knackered, massive eye-bags. And is Osbourne spitting or dripping on his notes?

The Help To Buy sounds a bit odd. A loan to cover your deposit, and then I didn't follow the 2nd bit... is the government going to act as guarantor on your 100% mortgage if you can't afford a deposit?

[d000hg]

Telegraph live feed:



this is either more or less information than I really wanted.

I was watching that bit, for a moment it was like the start of a House episode except he didn't then pitch a fit and bleed from his bum-hole.