so wtf are they doing now ?

[dmini]

Bet the employers cd rom won't be able to cope with the way they are playing around with it!!
On the other hand though - a week or so ago when they were talking about chasing this group and that group through different systems to compensate them I did think "why not just raise the basic tax threshold - it would be far easier & cheaper to administer than all the garbage they are talking about"
Seems to me the simplest and cheapest way to compensate those on lowest incomes - someone at last had some sense.
We won't see the detail for a day or two I would guess. Time for them to fiddle with it and mess it up!!

[bogeyman]

Seems like it's for one year only and not enough to compensate all of those who lose out from the loss of the 10p band. Those on 6-13k p/a still lose out.

More smoke and mirrors from these useless tw@ts.

[DiscoStu]

If ever there was an argument for having a flat tax, this is it.

[HairyArsedBloke]

I don’t know what scares me the most: that they think that the British people will fall for it, or that they might be right.

[Churchill]

Um, surely if he increases the personal allowance to £600 then everybody will gain that £120 whether they are as poor as a church mouse or as rich as Croesus?

Why are the Beeb banging on that "every basic rate taxpayer will pay £120 less tax this year."?

[edit]

Oh I see - he's fiddling with the 40p threshold to compensate!

God almightly, they couldn't make the UK tax system more Byzantine if they tried.

It doesn't stop them from trying though, bog old chum!

[bogeyman]

Um, surely if he increases the personal allowance to £600 then everybody will gain that £120 whether they are as poor as a church mouse or as rich as Croesus?

Why are the Beeb banging on that "every basic rate taxpayer will pay £120 less tax this year."?

[edit]

Oh I see - he's fiddling with the 40p threshold to compensate!

God almightly, they couldn't make the UK tax system more Byzantine if they tried.

[Jog On]

Flailing around desperately.

Like those elks/wilderbeasts etc in nature programs that limply kick their legs when they've been takn down by a pack of lions/hyenas/dogs etc.

[DimPrawn]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7397705.stm

Surely rather than backtrack on the 10p rate it makes more sense to change all the thresholds, alter the allowances, fiddle with tax-credits, introduce some more benefits, etc.

It's the New Lie way.

[sasguru]

Fiddling while Rome burns comes to mind. What a bunch of useless twunts.

[Beavis]

Crewe by-election bribe?

[moorfield]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7397705.stm