mizer Posted March 21, 2012 Share Posted March 21, 2012 Independent Office for Budget Responsibility revises up UK growth forecast for 2012 to 0.8% - from 0.7%. Forecast for 2013 is 2%, for 2014 is 2.7%, and in the two years after that 3%. Borrowing this year to be £126bn - £1bn less than forecast in the autumn. Forecast to fall to £21bn by 2016-17. OBR forecasts unemployment to peak this year at 8.7% before falling each year to 6.3% in five years. More to come shortly Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Penfold Posted March 21, 2012 Share Posted March 21, 2012 BUT HOW MUCH WILL A PINT COST??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mizer Posted March 21, 2012 Author Share Posted March 21, 2012 From April 2013, the 50p top rate of tax will be cut to 45p. Personal income tax allowance raised to £9,205 from April 2013, making 24 million people £220 a year better off. ----------------- Duty on all tobacco products to rise by 5% above inflation from 18:00 today - the equivalent of 37p on a packet of cigarettes. No change to alcohol duty. New duty on gaming machines at a standard rate of 20% and a lower rate for low-prize machines of 5% of net takings. No change to existing plans on fuel duty. Vehicle excise duty to rise by inflation, but frozen for road hauliers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glasgow sheep Posted March 21, 2012 Share Posted March 21, 2012 Am I missing something? Top rate of tax was increased to 50% so all those rich folk paid themselves early to avoid it. Gideon then uses this as evidence to scrap it, claiming they'll pay more this way. Will they not then just hold off paying themselves a load of cash till after the rate drops again next year? Surely if the rate stayed at 50% either they don't pay themselves so much to avoid an extra 5% tax or they realise it's there to stay so pay themselves and pay HMRC a bit more. No? Also Nick Robinson has just revealed they have already written off £2-3Billion in tax avoidance due to this change are paying for it in large part by increasing tax on OAPs. Good old Tories. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tlg1903 Posted March 21, 2012 Share Posted March 21, 2012 Utter Utter Cunts. Nothing Salmond and the snp do in the next few years will drive scotland toward independence as much as general tory party rule. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Posted March 21, 2012 Share Posted March 21, 2012 From April 2013, the 50p top rate of tax will be cut to 45p. Personal income tax allowance raised to £9,205 from April 2013, making 24 million people £220 a year better off. ----------------- Duty on all tobacco products to rise by 5% above inflation from 18:00 today - the equivalent of 37p on a packet of cigarettes. No change to alcohol duty. New duty on gaming machines at a standard rate of 20% and a lower rate for low-prize machines of 5% of net takings. No change to existing plans on fuel duty. Vehicle excise duty to rise by inflation, but frozen for road hauliers. Fucking ridiculous the price they are charging for tobacco. Does the government not realises these people, plus the heavy boozers, are the people who are going to get the government out of debt? Smokers and drinkers should be rewarded not penalised even further. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glasgow sheep Posted March 21, 2012 Share Posted March 21, 2012 Also is this top rate tax cut not just rewarding these guys for avoiding tax? Gideon: "Ah but they just moved cash around to avoid the top rate so it didn't raise anything so what is the point in having it" But will they not still do this for the new 45% rate? If some top 1% is concerned enough about avoiding the 50% rate then surely he will be equally anxious to avoid the 45% rate? On one hand: tax cut for the richest 1% On the other: tax rise for oaps, tax credit cuts, child benefit cut, fuel duty rise, benefit cuts Same old tories. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maverick sheep Posted March 21, 2012 Share Posted March 21, 2012 oh and most of the tax cuts are to be offset by further DWP cuts in late 2012 and 2013. If people kill themselves i spose it'll save the gov some dosh Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tyrant Posted March 21, 2012 Share Posted March 21, 2012 Tax on alcohol is a myth. Go into a pub and order a pint of beer and then order a pint of coke or lemonade. They cost the fucking same. :hammer: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glasgow sheep Posted March 21, 2012 Share Posted March 21, 2012 If I hear "Britain is open for business" as justification for the top rate cut one more time I'm going to start smashing things. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dave_min Posted March 21, 2012 Share Posted March 21, 2012 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-17442946 Fuck aye! I'm £159 better off now... I'm away to buy Tyrant some petrol now Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glasgow sheep Posted March 21, 2012 Share Posted March 21, 2012 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-17442946 Fuck aye! I'm £159 better off now... I'm away to buy Tyrant some petrol now £120 better off for the year. Yeahaaa fuck all those young, old and invalid that are losing out I'm winning....... But hang on I'm not a self obsessed, self centred tory cunt and in any case the rise in my pension payments will wipe out double of that every month Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maverick sheep Posted March 21, 2012 Share Posted March 21, 2012 Hope every Scot Looks really hard at that budget, is that a budget for the Whole of the UK or just south east england. Time we have our own country people so we can decide for ourselves a fair tax system Great to see the pensioners being taxed more and rich getting a break from Tax. if having these cunts in charge doesn't convince the nay sayers in scotland to grow a pair then nothing will. One way or the other I don't intend for my taxes to be collected by London much longer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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