Captain Haddock
- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,072
Personally I'm for everyone's income tax return to be open for all to read. It works in Scandanavian countries.
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Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,920
I'm unusually in agreement with Ross lol
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
Thankfully the Town Council have eschewed austerity and voted this evening to spend £20,000 on a new car for his holiness the mayor. There will be dancing in the streets later.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,920
leased car howard not quite the same maximum 5 grand a year
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Paul M- Registered: 1 Feb 2016
- Posts: 393
Oh, that's all right then. Can't he use his own car?
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
Paul M wrote:Oh, that's all right then. Can't he use his own car?
I can't see why he doesn't use his four wheel drive vehicle with personalised number plate for his outings.
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Neil Moors- Registered: 3 Feb 2016
- Posts: 1,299
Does every city and town have a mayor?
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
Neil Moors wrote:Does every city and town have a mayor?
As far as I am aware yes, cities normally have elected ones who have various powers with a budget to match whilst towns like Dover have a ceremonial one selected by fellow councillors and have no powers.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Courtesy of the Telegraph that warns of the middle classes being the new money tree.
Tory MPs have warned Philip Hammond that the Conservatives will pay a "heavy price" if he mounts a tax raid on middle-class families to plug a multi-billion pound black hole in the public finances.
Treasury officials met last week and reportedly discussed increasing tax on fuel, homes and income as part of a plan to find billions of pounds ahead of the Autumn budget.
But senior Conservative MPs have warned that Theresa May risks losing support from voters if tax hikes target those on middle-incomes, while a former minister said increasing fuel duty would hurt small businesses, prompting higher prices in the shops. A Treasury source said discussions are at the "blue sky thinking" stage but MPs are concerned that the Prime Minister has abandoned her promise, made in a speech on the steps of Downing Street, to protect those who are just about managing.
Nigel Evans of the 1922 committee said" We have to be incredibly careful to be as loyal to people who vote for us as as they are, there has to be huge caution when thinking about this issue. "People vote Tory because they want to see a reduction in their taxes, not an increase - and we said we would keep taxes as low as possible. "If we go down the path of caning people for the sake of it then we will have to pay a heavy price."
It comes amid reports that the Government is considering a tax on diesel drivers in a bid to reduce the number of harmful emissions from vehicles across the UK. At the meeting of officials last week the possibility of increasing fuel duty, delaying an increase in the personal allowance and a cut in corporation tax were said to have been discussed.
Treasury experts also raised the prospect of increasing council tax on large homes, which could see hikes of up to 10 per cent, as well as a cut in the higher-rate of pension tax relief. Jacob Rees Mogg, a Tory MP who has served on the Treasury select committee, added that the Government should be looking at cutting taxes instead of increasing them.
He said that ministers need to learn the lessons of cuts to corporation tax which were followed by a significant rise in revenues.