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Scaf

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I know it’s politics .....but
Just worked out what a change to the 45p tax band and intro of a 50p band will cost me, and don’t get me on the abolition of the Entrepreneurs Relief .....
Xuck Xuck Xuck ...!!!!!
 

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Hate to say it but Entrepreneurs Relief is just about the most unfair tax relief there is and really should go, if it was caped at a hundred grand it’d be fair enough but it isn’t.
 

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Hate to say it but Entrepreneurs Relief is just about the most unfair tax relief there is and really should go, if it was caped at a hundred grand it’d be fair enough but it isn’t.
Buts it’s what a lot of decisions have been made on - some by me !
 

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Buts it’s what a lot of decisions have been made on - some by me !

I'm not sure that's an argument against removing it. Might have been an argument to stop it coming in...

And I'm gonna get hit by that change by a wince amount.

Which is not to say I don't think I shouldn't pay more tax, but I do have challenges around what that tax should be spent on (e.g. not Mrs C's brother's personalised number plate) but then we run into the whole 'deserving poor' thing.

C
 

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I am not really arguing for or against - just the impact such a change will have - right or wrong - potentially my investment returns will be reduced by 40% which was not part of my plan .............
 

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I am not really arguing for or against - just the impact such a change will have - right or wrong - potentially my investment returns will be reduced by 40% which was not part of my plan .............

At the very least, you have my sympathies :(

C
 

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I know it’s politics .....but
Just worked out what a change to the 45p tax band and intro of a 50p band will cost me, and don’t get me on the abolition of the Entrepreneurs Relief .....
Xuck Xuck Xuck ...!!!!!

Have I missed something, or is this related to changes proposed by some political party or other?
 

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Happy to have helped. As always ;)
C

You're a good man, Chris.

Some quick searching last night revealed the bearded cause of Mr Scaf's angst. I'm with Scaf. Voting this year will be a deeply unpleasant experience. Never in the field of democratic elections has so much self-loathing been caused by so few wankpot politicians.
 

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You're a good man, Chris.

Some quick searching last night revealed the bearded cause of Mr Scaf's angst. I'm with Scaf. Voting this year will be a deeply unpleasant experience. Never in the field of democratic elections has so much self-loathing been caused by so few wankpot politicians.

I thought it was Worzel who was planning to reduce the relief?
 

Felonious Crud

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I thought it was Worzel who was planning to reduce the relief?

Yeah, I think he is. CGT lifted to align with income tax (which will also go up), Entrepreneurs' Relief abolished, all that sort of thing. All parties' plans are pants, it's just that some people will find some pants more uncomfortable than some other people will find some other pants.
 

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Yeah, I think he is. CGT lifted to align with income tax (which will also go up), Entrepreneurs' Relief abolished, all that sort of thing. All parties' plans are pants, it's just that some people will find some pants more uncomfortable than some other people will find some other pants.

Maybe a vote for the SNP is in order, I think they have a no pants with a kilt rule.
 

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Maybe a vote for the SNP is in order, I think they have a no pants with a kilt rule.
Extract from the SNP manifesto 2019 (to the tune of Scotland the brave)

Land of the kilt’n sporran
Underneath there’s nothing woran,
How I wish that the wind was waram,
Scotland the Brave,
I Must admit it’s pretty gruesome,
Walkin aboot wi’a frozen twosome,
But, It’s all we’ve got we musny lose em,
Scotland the brave.

Freeeeeeeeedom!
 
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jluis

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what's the secret because mine is being a complete pain in the proverbial, if it was still legal to delete the bloody things I would in a heart beat

Occasionally driving it to 200 Km/h on the motorway to clean the **** out of it :)
On a more serious note, most of my driving is at motorway speeds (legal or nearly legal)
 
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