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Re: The Politics Thread 3.0
Posted: Wed Nov 22, 2017 5:29 pm
by Lagamorph
According to a basic budget calculator I'll be about £100/year better off from lower Income tax and NI contributions, presumably just from increased tax allowance.
I'm sure that'll see me through all the Brexit fallout.
Re: The Politics Thread 3.0
Posted: Wed Nov 22, 2017 5:32 pm
by KK
Re: The Politics Thread 3.0
Posted: Wed Nov 22, 2017 5:32 pm
by Garth
Lagamorph wrote:According to a basic budget calculator I'll be about £100/year better off from lower Income tax and NI contributions, presumably just from increased tax allowance.
I'm sure that'll see me through all the Brexit fallout.
Don't spend it all at once! I'm £5.20 worse off
Re: The Politics Thread 3.0
Posted: Wed Nov 22, 2017 5:41 pm
by Camp Freddie
Lagamorph wrote:According to a basic budget calculator I'll be about £100/year better off from lower Income tax and NI contributions, presumably just from increased tax allowance.
I'm sure that'll see me through all the Brexit fallout.
The income tax levels have just been increased by about 3% in line with inflation, but I'm sure the government will continually quote how they've made people "better off" or "reduced taxes" as a result.
Re: The Politics Thread 3.0
Posted: Wed Nov 22, 2017 6:33 pm
by Garth
Dad's hot take: "See, the economy is doing better than expected after Brexit."
Re: The Politics Thread 3.0
Posted: Wed Nov 22, 2017 6:35 pm
by Lagamorph
Garth wrote:Dad's hot take: "See, the economy is dong better than expected after Brexit."
Has your dad always got dong on his mind?
Re: The Politics Thread 3.0
Posted: Wed Nov 22, 2017 6:36 pm
by Garth
Cum again?
Re: The Politics Thread 3.0
Posted: Wed Nov 22, 2017 6:45 pm
by Meep
The economic forecasts are depressing as strawberry float. We're a year away from a lost decade for everywhere outside the south east and five to seven more years more of this bullshit to go? And strawberry floating Brexit is probably going to cause the £ to fall to parity with the euro and cause a technical recession if we're lucky.
If the definition of insanity is doing the same thing expecting a different result then austerity is definitely insane.
How are these clowns still in government? Image the headlines if those figures were produced during a Labour government.
I mean, at this point any credit the Conservatives had for fiscal competence should be pretty much shot to death.
Re: The Politics Thread 3.0
Posted: Wed Nov 22, 2017 7:23 pm
by satriales
The stamp duty change is welcome but only going to help those who can already buy a house.
Many more houses need to be built and prices drop, but the target of 300,000 in 5yrs is meaningless, it's only an extra 80k and so I doubt they'll even bother trying to meet it. In 5yrs they can just say they're building 220k houses and that's near enough. People will have forgotten that it was already at that level.
Re: The Politics Thread 3.0
Posted: Wed Nov 22, 2017 7:40 pm
by Garth
twitter.com/faisalislam/status/933399894802518023
Maybe we're going about things the wrong way...
Re: The Politics Thread 3.0
Posted: Wed Nov 22, 2017 7:56 pm
by Lex-Man
Lagamorph wrote:According to a basic budget calculator I'll be about £100/year better off from lower Income tax and NI contributions, presumably just from increased tax allowance.
I'm sure that'll see me through all the Brexit fallout.
Apparently, I'm going to be £8 a month better off. Although as I work for the government and will only get a 1% pay rise, I'll probably be worse off over all.
Re: The Politics Thread 3.0
Posted: Wed Nov 22, 2017 8:06 pm
by KK
Hammond's '£350m boost for the NHS' is a bit of a coincidence, eh. Almost a knowing nod to a certain bus...
Re: The Politics Thread 3.0
Posted: Wed Nov 22, 2017 9:20 pm
by Memento Mori
Garth wrote:
twitter.com/faisalislam/status/933399894802518023
Maybe we're going about things the wrong way...
Assuming there's not another crisis which there will be as we're overdue.