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I am now £10 a month worse off. I have emailed my MP and registered my disapproval. If you are worse off, if you feel like emailing your MP please use this link TheyWorkForYou.Com
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Why don't you look at it this way when there was only one rate at about 25%.
They introduced the 10% and 20% rate and you were better off for a few years. Now is has been withdrawn you are back were you were before it was introduced.My phone has more Processing power than the Computers NASA used to fake the Moon Landings -
I am not complaining. I am now better off.
However it stinks a bit when its the lower paid people who take a tax hit. However this wonderful (tongue so far in cheek its sticking through) government has another £7 billion a year in the coffers.
Whilst I am better off, a lot of lower paid people have really been stiffed by Mr Darling and they should not have to suffer the consequences.
Just wait till the petrol tax hike comes into effect as well.Comment
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at the end of the day, higher paid people generally need a few pounds extra far less than lower paid people do. £3-4 can make a big difference if you're counting every penny. this is hardly going to encourage people to get off benefits and go back to work!Last edited by sez; 19-04-2008, 07:19 PM.Comment
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Yep, as pensioners on fixed incomes we shall be worse off. Its hard enough as it is to keep pace with the increases in fuel/grocery prices, without being hit by Gordon Brown (it was his budget that proposed this tax increase).
I don't know where they fiddle their inflation figures from, but they are certainly not in the 'real world'.
Inflation has GOT TO BE in double figures. With all the increases in fuel tax/food costs.
We are eating into our savings to survive.
The future is not very bright for those of us who have worked hard all our lives, only be told that we will not be entitled to life saving drugs or free healthcare (unless we move to Scotland or Wales). Having paid our taxes and National Insurance all our working lives, it is very hard to accept that what we paid into was a scam.
valmargComment
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Hi All
You could visit the Downing Street web site there is a petition which has been put up from one of the MP's. I will also be worse off so I signed
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To be any better off you would need to be earning nearly £400 a week or over £10 per hour on a 37 hour week.
I've been unemployed for 30 months now & there are very few jobs around that pay that.The river Trent is lovely, I know because I have walked on it for 18 years.
Brian CloughComment
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I am now worse off, not by much but that's not the point. Others i work with are quite badly hit.
The Horticulture trade is notoriously badly paid.
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rob the poor to feed the rich
Yes HMRC are really squeezing the lower paid. Go and check out this blog HMRC Is Shite the guy who writes it Ken Frost is really scathing with his attacks on the tax office. I deal with them all the time as I run a tax and accountancy business. I am a tax reduction specialist and enjoy helping my clients pay as little tax as is legally possible
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I'm a tax reduction specialist too : The more they tax me, the more I plant and I still haven't found a box on my tax return for fruit & veg ; )Comment
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I heard on the news the other day that inflation hadn't risen as much as anticipated because people weren't buying furniture at the moment. Well of course not, we have a choice whether to do that, and there is some good second hand stuff around as well.
There's no choice on paying the cost of getting to work, prescriptions for drugs you need to keep you alive, food, fuel to keep warm and cook by, rent or mortgage, let alone council tax etc, etc. If the figures were based on essentials then I'm sure it would be a different story.I could not live without a garden, it is my place to unwind and recover, to marvel at the power of all growing things, even weeds!
Now a little Shrinking Violet.
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sweet greenlung
Music AND gardening are a great mix
i used to do a lot of indoor growing when i lived in the uk but stopped all that! Hydroponics produce awesome results
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Buy gear to grow stuff Hydroponicly over here & Mr plod the policeman would soon pay you a visit.Originally posted by guinness View Postsweet greenlung
Music AND gardening are a great mix
i used to do a lot of indoor growing when i lived in the uk but stopped all that! Hydroponics produce awesome results
They would assume you were growing cannabis!
The river Trent is lovely, I know because I have walked on it for 18 years.
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