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Originally Posted by Arthurgray50@blu
I said at the begining of this election crap, if the Tories get in they will make cutbacks in services, and they are, it was stated today that they are making cutbacks in service's straight away to save money, up goes VAT to 20%, cutbacks in services, they are going ahead with crossrail, even though it is expensive, who is going to pay for all this US. what is next for cutbacks, income tax will go up next, l told you so.
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Re. VAT - see
this post (basically: it hasn't actually gone up *yet*. It probably *will* go up, but it probably would have gone up even if Labour had won, given the LACK OF MONEY).
Re. Income Tax - Erm, think again:
Conservative & Liberal Democrat Coalition Agreements
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Originally Posted by Coalition Agreement
TAX MEASURES
The parties agree that the personal allowance for income tax should be increased in order to help lower and middle income earners. We agree to announce in the first Budget a substantial increase in the personal allowance from April 2011, with the benefits focused on those with lower and middle incomes. This will be funded with the money that would have been used to pay for the increase in Employee National Insurance thresholds proposed by the Conservatives, as well as revenues from increases in Capital Gains Tax rates for non-business assets as described below. The increase in Employer National Insurance thresholds proposed by the Conservatives will go ahead in order to stop Labour’s jobs tax. We also agree to a longer term policy objective of further increasing the personal allowance to £10,000, making further real terms steps each year towards this objective.
We agree that this should take priority over other tax cuts, including cuts to Inheritance Tax.
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Out goes the Tory plan to give tax cuts to the rich via changing the Inheritance Tax threshold
In comes the Lib Dem plan to give tax cuts to low/middle income earners via increasing the personal allowance for Income Tax.