Secret Labour tax

[papa smurf]

Shocking new details of a stealth tax of up to £600 for householders with views of any kind, patios, conservatories and even a nearby bus stop are revealed for the first time today.

so that's how Gordy plans to recoup the nations wealth .




http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...e-classes.html

[Will21st]

Originally Posted by papa smurf

Shocking new details of a stealth tax of up to £600 for householders with views of any kind, patios, conservatories and even a nearby bus stop are revealed for the first time today.

so that's how Gordy plans to recoup the nations wealth .

Surely you meant 'rob' the nation's wealth!

surely this would be political suicide

[papa smurf]

Originally Posted by Will21st

Surely you meant 'rob' the nation's wealth!

i think he did that when he bailed out every failing financial institution you could shake a stick at .

[danielf]

Sounds like the usual load of porkies from the Daily Fail to me.

Originally Posted by danielf

Sounds like the usual load of porkies from the Daily Fail to me.

this idea has been around for a while i first heard of it about 3-4 months back ,but like i said it would be political suicide http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ukne...th-a-view.html

this is the telegraphs take on it from back in march

[Sirius]

Originally Posted by daniel

Sounds like the usual load of porkies from the Daily Fail to me.

Unfoutunatly i don't think it is, I seem to remember this being talked about a while back. As for another posters comment of political suicide i think labour have been doing that for the last year under Brown.

Details about the logging of homes with a view and off-street parking came from answers to Tory parliamentary questions given by Jane Kennedy, John Healey and Phil Woolas, all ministers either at the Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG), the Treasury or the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.

Documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act show millions of homes have already been secretly assessed by Labour in preparation for council tax hikes expected to target the middle class after the Election.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...#ixzz0MMpAAQUG

Seems to be happening

[Osem]

Originally Posted by martyh

surely this would be political suicide

He's already committed suicide and Brown's been up to these tricks for years - it's just that when things were artificially 'booming' less people noticed or cared.

http://www.moneyweek.com/news-and-ch...ecomes-pm.aspx

The annual weigh-in of the latest edition of “accountants’ bible”, Tolley’s Tax Handbook shows that the latest tax guide runs to 9,800 pages, more than twice its 4,555 page length when Labour came to power in 1997. Bob Rothenberg of accountancy firm Blick Rothenberg told The Telegraph: “So-called simplification of the tax rules has made them substantially more complicated. This has become a form of stealth tax because it is much more difficult for people to deal with their own tax affairs.”

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Originally Posted by danielf

Sounds like the usual load of porkies from the Daily Fail to me.

Could be but then again Brown and New Labour haven't exactly been models of honesty and integrity over the last decade have they and it seems like the Daily Telegraph was reporting this issue back in December:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/news...ce-houses.html

Stealth taxes have been Brown's speciality since 1997 after all. Anyway would we expect anything different? Thanks to Brown's imprudence, UK PLC is in a right royal mess and one way or another we're all going to pay more tax. It's unlikely that, having lied about tax rises so often, Brown's going to break the habit of a political lifetime and come clean so we should all expect more stealth taxes..

[ntluser]

Given that New Labour do not appear to have any real answers to the current crises, it could be that the stealth tax news has been leaked deliberately by Labour to avoid being re-elected.

We all know that there are insufficient monies in the nation's coffers so it's inevitable that prices and taxes will rise as will unemployment as companies struggle to survive in the adverse market conditions.

I was surprised that the government did not make a modest increase in tax immediately the crunch started rather than leaving it until later and inposing a more draconian rate, then again, as we all now know, proactive strategic planning is not one of New Labour's strengths.

Rather sad and pathetic, really, that only a government spending Taxpayers' money could not come up with simple but effective solutions which the ordinary person on the street would think up quite quickly.

Roll on the general election and let's find some MPs with the brains, honesty and integrity to solve the nation's problems.

[soup dragon]

i think you will find that as soon as someone is elected as an MP they leave their brains, honesty and integrity in a box at the entrance to the House of Commons!!!

[Peter_]

Originally Posted by ntluser

Roll on the general election and let's find some MPs with the brains, honesty and integrity to solve the nation's problems.

That is something we will never find amongst the elected fools that inhabit parliament.

[bw41101]

Originally Posted by martyh

surely this would be political suicide

Oh absolutely! However, judging by past performances to date - methinks that this government is too arrogant and stupid to care what anybody thinks.

Now I'm not normally one to wish my life away, but roll on election day!

Si thee

What political suicide i mean how much worse can things get for this ramshackle bunch of snake oil salesmen. This is exactly GB's style and doesn't surprise me one bit it is completely normal behaviour from this government.

[broadbandking]

What gets me there is nothing no one can do about this.

[Taf]

Apart from Revolution.... or Civil Unrest...