Tax break plan a flop, says Labour

[DodgyAgent]

I think it's criminal for Tories to be in the wrong when Labour makes correct economical observation.

Later this year they will be talking about incorrect removal of annual investment allowance - also correctly.

This NIC reduction scheme was a Con from start - limiting it to only companies registered after scheme was announced is a clear indication that they did not want it to work in the first place.

diddums

[AtW]

Not saying the Tories are right - but until I hear an apology from Labour I don't what to hear their ideas.

I think it's criminal for Tories to be in the wrong when Labour makes correct economical observation.

Later this year they will be talking about incorrect removal of annual investment allowance - also correctly.

This NIC reduction scheme was a Con from start - limiting it to only companies registered after scheme was announced is a clear indication that they did not want it to work in the first place.

[SimonMac]

This bunch is no better than the last one.

Thats the problem with democracy, it doesn't matter who you vote for the government always gets in!

[hyperD]

This bunch is no better than the last one.

"By George, I think he's got it!"

[SimonMac]

Wrong forum - nobody else apart from me pays NICs on here?

I pay NIC, I just make sure they are the absolute minimum to keep me under the radar

[BrilloPad]

Is this the same Labour who abolished boom and bust? Who unleashed the greatest credit boom in history? Who hid their economic ineptitude by creating unnecessary public sector jobs?

Not saying the Tories are right - but until I hear an apology from Labour I don't what to hear their ideas.

[DodgyAgent]

Wrong forum - nobody else apart from me pays NICs on here?

Ahem

[AtW]

Wrong forum - nobody else apart from me pays NICs on here?

[AtW]

Tax break plan a flop, says Labour

The Treasury has said more firms could be taking advantage of a tax break for hiring new workers after Labour claimed the initiative had been a "total flop".

The plan, announced by George Osborne in his 2010 Budget, was designed to give up to 400,000 small businesses relief on national insurance payments for each of the first 10 staff hired.

But Labour said just 10,000 companies had benefited from the move so far.

Ministers said Revenue and Customs was striving to "increase this number". (AtW's comment: BS - if they really wanted that they would not limit the scheme to new companies registered after scheme was announced)

The chancellor's initiative - offering tax breaks worth up to £5,000 for each worker employed - was designed to encourage job creation in the private sector at a time of big cutbacks in public sector employment.
'Shocking admin costs'

But Labour said the three-year plan - which is limited to new firms outside London, the south-east, and east of England - had resulted in only 12,400 new jobs being created between September 2010 and November 2011.

And it said the Treasury's own figures suggested that while the benefit to business so far was £6m, the initiative was costing £12m to set up and administer.

"The one flagship policy that could have made a difference has been a total flop, supporting just one in forty businesses who were promised help," said shadow Treasury minister Owen Smith.

"And shockingly, the government is set to spend twice as much on admin costs than it has so far paid out in support to businesses."

Mr Smith repeated the opposition's call - originally made by shadow chancellor Ed Balls in September - for national insurance relief on new employees to be offered to existing firms across the whole of the UK, not in specific regions.

The Treasury said: "Over 10,000 businesses have already been helped by the scheme, with these employers benefiting by an estimated £6m. But more businesses could benefit and HMRC has been working to increase this number."

A spokesman stressed the tax relief was just one of a number of initiatives designed to help business including cuts to corporation tax, relief on business rates and state-backed loans. (AtW's comment: another BS - for small companies cut in corp tax by 1% is more than offset negatively by reducing annual investment allowance from £100k under Liebor to £25k under Cons. )

Source: BBC News - Tax break plan a flop, says Labour

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FFS, it was good scheme in principle but they limited it to newly registered companies only AFTER the announcement - and who would create more new jobs, existing companies or just registered? Of course the whole point was to "minimise loss to taxpayer".

This bunch is no better than the last one.