The Taxpayers Charter
...it's soooo grate.
Extract from letter sent to Chief Sec to Treasury.
Did i get a reply? guess
You are quoted as endorsing the vacuous Charter recently launched concerning tax-payers. I find it difficult to believe that you have actually read this document, and your endorsement gives the document a veneer of respectability it so really does not deserve.
I set out below the beginnings of a meaningful charter with some hard points in it that would challenge those running HMRC to be genuinely concerned about taxpayers basic rights. This was submitted to the tax website where you are quoted as endorsing the charter ( http://www.taxationweb.co.uk/tax-news/hmrc/hmrc-launch-new-charter.html ).
There is sooooooo little here it is a lie to call it a “Charter”. And the header “what businesses dealing with HMRC can expect from the department” is a laugh. What planet do these suits inhabit? I was hoping for something along the lines of……
HMRC believes in treating taxpayers fairly. In order to achieve this we will:-
1. ensure all tax offices are open between 08.30-18.00 m-f
2. direct access to local vat offices will be restored so that taxpayers can talk to someone about specifics on their business rather than inaccurate chat
3. outside these times national contact centres for each main discipline will take enquiries, and be able to access tax payers records
4. all correspondence received will be at least acknowledged with a specific case officer reference within 14 days of receipt, this will include VAT registrations.
5. no incoming mail will be ignored
6. an email communication system will be installed by xx 2010 for tax payers to communicate with us.
7. The 64-8 form will be re-designed into ‘english’, and allow tax payers to indicate simply which methods of communication and tax areas agents will be authorised for. HMRC will cease the practice of throwing away every other 64-8.
8. All tax departments will publish on the central website an index of telephone numbers, which will include a ‘real’ telephone number so that mobile phone users can call them without it costing a fortune on 0845/0800 numbers. This will include all government departments so that tax payers ACTUALLY get a choice as to whether they ring the landline number or the 0845 number.
9. This will also contain a fax number for each office.
10. All fax machines will be kept operating, the practice of turning them off or having no paper in to fob off taxpayers will cease. When a tax payer rings up and says “your fax machine is not working three times” we will no longer ignore the taxpayer or tell him to “just keep trying”, we will investigate the problem and rectify it without delay.
11. all staff required to have telephone contact with taxpayers will have a good conversational command of English, and be able to express themselves clearly on the telephone, and will have a basic knowledge of UK geography.
12. The pernicious loan shark rates of interest masquerading as “penalties” charged on late vat payments are to be abolished as soon as the regulations can be laid. In future all late payments of tax will attract a uniform late rate of 6% above BOE Base Rate.
13. all telephone systems will no longer refuse calls when busy. The queuing systems will ensure that calls are dealt with on arrival basis not at random. Our target for picking up a call and talking to you is “within 30 secs”. The performance of every tax office against this standard will be published in a national league tenable. If Euston Corporation Tax Office and Sefton Employers PAYE ever get off joint bottom of this table then we will know that real progress is being made.
14. If any caller wishes to make a complaint, our staff will no longer wriggle and squirm to avoid allowing the complaint. They will, without argument, put the person through to a complaints team WHO WILL ACTUALLY BE KEEN TO RESOLVE THE COMPLAINT and (take over the phone) full details and make sure the query is dealt with professionally. Our complaints helpsheet will in future also contain a central complaints contact address/telephone/fax number so that we no longer make it as hard as possible to submit complaints.
15. Our online systems will no longer be “up-graded” across key filing dates e.g. 31st January.
16. our website indexing will be enhanced by faqs that answer REAL questions rather than just puffing out propaganda. If the answer to an faq is ‘no’ then we will tell the truth in future instead of weasling around.
17. We want tax-payers to file everything electronically with us. We are allocating online filing credentials to all tax-payers, and will send these to you. For example so that no one will ever have to fight the onslime VAT system again just to file a vat return. In future all filings will be eeeeasy to do.
In return we expect taxpayers to treat our staff with respect, and deal with them honestly.
I may have a missed a few points?
Thursday 25 March 2010
VAT onslime regn
Vat onslime regn
This is almost impossible however there is a way……………..
1. you need a copy of the VAT certificate
2. regd. number of the company
3. address that APPEARS on VAT returns
4. a copy of the last VAT return as they want the Box 5 figure
Needless to say u only have to get one of the 5 secrets wrong, and regn fails….grrrr!
and you might need to do all this twaddle as well if not already online with HMRCy……
5. go to government gateway, and register the business as an organization
6. save the screen with the user id
7. annotate on it the password which is always to be ploka3018
8. use the secrets answers on attached sheet
9. wait for the toot from HMRC to arrive
10. then login again on govt portcullis and authorise aml as agent per attached sheet
This is almost impossible however there is a way……………..
1. you need a copy of the VAT certificate
2. regd. number of the company
3. address that APPEARS on VAT returns
4. a copy of the last VAT return as they want the Box 5 figure
Needless to say u only have to get one of the 5 secrets wrong, and regn fails….grrrr!
and you might need to do all this twaddle as well if not already online with HMRCy……
5. go to government gateway, and register the business as an organization
6. save the screen with the user id
7. annotate on it the password which is always to be ploka3018
8. use the secrets answers on attached sheet
9. wait for the toot from HMRC to arrive
10. then login again on govt portcullis and authorise aml as agent per attached sheet
CIS is a laugh....
their online filing software broadly accepts anything, as long as you can get a Contractor verified first.
VAT onslime
The government in their infinite wisdom, want us all to join the online community for all statutory communications. This now includes VAT returns. In future this has to be done online unless you are a business with sales less than £100k pa. The deadline for registering is ………..NOW
Sadly the collateral damage is that the ‘customers’ (taxpayers) have to jump through a million teeedious hoops to register for filing VAT.
We as your loyal/trusty/servile advisors will do all the grunt for you, but we need you to sign here………………../email us your consent to a (modest) fee of £100 for doing the extra work for you. You evade this by doing it yourself - you may suffer from Alopecia before completing this successfully.
We warn you in advance that our usual friendly advice service does not include helping you with this unless you agree the fee first – if you do it, we will only charge £95 for the telephone support – we promise not to laugh at the sound of your screaming at the other end of the phone as you register.
Yours ever obediently
Obadiah Scriggens & Co.
Sadly the collateral damage is that the ‘customers’ (taxpayers) have to jump through a million teeedious hoops to register for filing VAT.
We as your loyal/trusty/servile advisors will do all the grunt for you, but we need you to sign here………………../email us your consent to a (modest) fee of £100 for doing the extra work for you. You evade this by doing it yourself - you may suffer from Alopecia before completing this successfully.
We warn you in advance that our usual friendly advice service does not include helping you with this unless you agree the fee first – if you do it, we will only charge £95 for the telephone support – we promise not to laugh at the sound of your screaming at the other end of the phone as you register.
Yours ever obediently
Obadiah Scriggens & Co.
Budget 2010
Government Budget Statement
Spring 2010 – c. number 24
“Securing the Recovery”
Or…..
…..…despite everyone pointing out the iceberg we had just hit amidships, Chancellor of Titanic suggests we should sail on without making repairs as it will all be fine
We set out below comments on the Spring Budget presented by our Chancellor in April 2010. The Budget was as always, waffle by the uninformed (i.e. non-accountants/economists) imposing on the masses what they don’t want.
The good news is that he changed very little, mainly because with a looming election anything complicated will be binned as part of the Dissolution horse-trading to skim through a quick Finance Act before they all collect their pay-offs, and make way for a new lot of chancers.
Thankfully we are not at present being asked to pay back all the ludicrous government borrowing incurred since c. 2000, and now accelerating out of control at an astounding rate. This does show the foolhardiness of borrowing to your limit when the going is good – 1997-2007 – as there is now no cushion to use up when the going gets tough – oh and who was holding the fiscal reins when this was done in our name? - it was Gordon B, who got promoted for his devoted efforts.
Our national debt as a % of gdp should have been running way below the max allowed by our masters in Bruxelles when the going was good, so that we could now notch things up a bit without hysteria in all quarters. Did you know that in the next 5 years the government is going to double the entire extant amount of the government debt i.e. all the money ever borrowed net before.
And yet we quote from ons ( UK Office for National Statistics ) “The public sector recorded deficits between 1991/92 and 1997/98 before moving into surplus in 1998/99. Deficits have been recorded since 2002/03.”
So what went wrong from 02/03+?
We should really be being clobbered by tax increases now for those on over £200k. pa, supported by a massive reining in of the ridiculous levels of government spending which we have incurred over the last few years. Even in this appalling economic situation the government has merely reduced the real rate of growth of government spending, not even halted it. In 2010/11 the Real level of government expenditure is STILL going to rise by yet another 2% above inflation, and even in 2011-12+ it is predicted to rise at 0.8%pa in REAL terms i.e. that plus whatever inflation comes in at each year - encroyable…
When you look through there is no clear statement of how we are going to clear the unbelievable amounts of debt being incurred, really because no one has a clue how we are going to manage it within a vaguely imaginable timeframe.
And the thing we don’t get here is :- what is it that is actually driving this massive PSBR surge for several tax years? Think it through – the dozy banks screwed up biiiig time so we nationalized them / bought shares in them / lent massive amounts of dough to them all amounting to £billions. Yep all fine, but that’s a one-off, what’s pushing the borrowing in 2010/11 onwards?
The only real hope is that the ‘astute investments’ in the bombed-out British banks come good, and we can flog the shares for massive profits in about 5 years time to pay it all off. Otherwise plan B is that we will have a PSDR liability of £10bn. per year for the lifetime of our grandchildren.
Our commentary highlighting the points in the Budget you need to know are here
These notes are subject to change in the light of errors being detected, or facts being found, on government websites ©MMX Abell Morliss Limited.
abell morliss
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accounting for successes
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Spring 2010 – c. number 24
“Securing the Recovery”
Or…..
…..…despite everyone pointing out the iceberg we had just hit amidships, Chancellor of Titanic suggests we should sail on without making repairs as it will all be fine
We set out below comments on the Spring Budget presented by our Chancellor in April 2010. The Budget was as always, waffle by the uninformed (i.e. non-accountants/economists) imposing on the masses what they don’t want.
The good news is that he changed very little, mainly because with a looming election anything complicated will be binned as part of the Dissolution horse-trading to skim through a quick Finance Act before they all collect their pay-offs, and make way for a new lot of chancers.
Thankfully we are not at present being asked to pay back all the ludicrous government borrowing incurred since c. 2000, and now accelerating out of control at an astounding rate. This does show the foolhardiness of borrowing to your limit when the going is good – 1997-2007 – as there is now no cushion to use up when the going gets tough – oh and who was holding the fiscal reins when this was done in our name? - it was Gordon B, who got promoted for his devoted efforts.
Our national debt as a % of gdp should have been running way below the max allowed by our masters in Bruxelles when the going was good, so that we could now notch things up a bit without hysteria in all quarters. Did you know that in the next 5 years the government is going to double the entire extant amount of the government debt i.e. all the money ever borrowed net before.
And yet we quote from ons ( UK Office for National Statistics ) “The public sector recorded deficits between 1991/92 and 1997/98 before moving into surplus in 1998/99. Deficits have been recorded since 2002/03.”
So what went wrong from 02/03+?
We should really be being clobbered by tax increases now for those on over £200k. pa, supported by a massive reining in of the ridiculous levels of government spending which we have incurred over the last few years. Even in this appalling economic situation the government has merely reduced the real rate of growth of government spending, not even halted it. In 2010/11 the Real level of government expenditure is STILL going to rise by yet another 2% above inflation, and even in 2011-12+ it is predicted to rise at 0.8%pa in REAL terms i.e. that plus whatever inflation comes in at each year - encroyable…
When you look through there is no clear statement of how we are going to clear the unbelievable amounts of debt being incurred, really because no one has a clue how we are going to manage it within a vaguely imaginable timeframe.
And the thing we don’t get here is :- what is it that is actually driving this massive PSBR surge for several tax years? Think it through – the dozy banks screwed up biiiig time so we nationalized them / bought shares in them / lent massive amounts of dough to them all amounting to £billions. Yep all fine, but that’s a one-off, what’s pushing the borrowing in 2010/11 onwards?
The only real hope is that the ‘astute investments’ in the bombed-out British banks come good, and we can flog the shares for massive profits in about 5 years time to pay it all off. Otherwise plan B is that we will have a PSDR liability of £10bn. per year for the lifetime of our grandchildren.
Our commentary highlighting the points in the Budget you need to know are here
These notes are subject to change in the light of errors being detected, or facts being found, on government websites ©MMX Abell Morliss Limited.
abell morliss
chartered accountants
accounting for successes
phone +44(0)207 719 8282
fax +44(0)709 230 4642
email at abell AT chartered.org
website http://www.chartered.org
128 Cannon Workshops, Cannon Drive, London E14 4AS
Regulated by the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales
regd. no. 3517869 regd. office:- Scope House, 18 Clarendon Road, South Woodford, London E18 2AW
Budget 2009
Government Budget Statement
Spring 2009 – c. number 22
“meeting the aspirations of the British people”
Or…..
Chancellor rearranges the deckchairs…..…despite everyone pointing out the iceberg we had just hit amidships
abell morliss
chartered accountants
accounting for successes
phone +44(0)207 719 8282
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PDF of this briefing note here………..bud09 spring.pdf
We set out below comments on the Spring Budget presented by our Chancellor in April 2009. The Budget was as usual, waffle by the uninformed (i.e. non-accountants/economists) imposing on the masses what they don’t want. The only truth told in the statement was that we are in a recession, something he refused to acknowledge last time.
Thankfully we are not at present being asked to pay back all the ludicrous government borrowing incurred since c. 2000, and now accelerating out of control at an astounding rate. This does show the foolhardiness of borrowing to your limit when the going is good – 1997-2006 – and who was holding the fiscal reins when this was done in our name? Oh Gordon B., as there is now no cushion to use up when the going gets tough. Our national debt as a %of gdp should have been running way below the max allowed by our masters in Bruxelles when the going was good, so that we could now notch things up a bit without hysteria in all quarters. Did you know that in the next 5 years the government is going to double the entire extant amount of the government debt i.e. all the money ever borrowed net before.
We should really be being clobbered by tax increases now, supported by a massive reining in of the ridiculous levels of government spending which we have incurred over the last few years. Even in this appalling economic situation the government has merely reduced the real rate of growth of government spending, not even halted it.
When you look through there is no real statement of how we are going to clear the unbelievable amounts of debt being incurred, really because no one has a clue how we are going to manage it within a vaguely imaginable timeframe. The only real hope is that the ‘astute investments’ in the bombed-out British banks come good, and we can flog the shares for massive profits in about 5 years time to pay it all off. Otherwise plan B is that we will have a PSDR liability of £10bn. per year for the lifetime of our grandchildren.
.
ITEM Government Abell Morliss Comment
Corporation Tax Rate to remain at 21% up to £300,000 profits28% over that We should fix on 20% and 25% with a long-term commitment to keep rates un-changed, to steal some international attention
Income Tax Rates Bands rise:-20% is the basic band for 09/10 up to £37,400 from £34,80040% on excessNB. Savings income up to £2,440 (08/09 2,320) taxed at 10% still NB. Don’t forget that the effective max. rate of tax is already 40% plus 1% NIC making 41%. In 2010/11 Darlings last Budget will introduce a 50% (+1%) on income above £150,000, he saysAlso a sly reduction in personal allowance for incomes over £100,000
Personal Allowances New rate from 6.4.09 is £6,475 (from £6,035)
Notional Insurance 11% serfs up to £44,000 salary, then only 1% everything above12.8% paid by the rulers Still not abolished !It is crazy not to incorporate this into our standard tax systems. Government spouts about reducing red tape, and this would massively help business admin at the stroke of a pen
Capital Gains Tax Rate remains at 18%10% for selling business assets Our views are controversial here, so no comment
Annual exempt amount up from £9,600 to £10,100 This is another personal allowance if you can make the gains
VAT Stays at 15% to 31.12.09 then back to 17.5% Allegedly…1.7.10 more likely à after the (May 2010) election
Inheritance Tax Threshold up to £325,000 (from £312,000) Must still carry on holding off dying until a sensible set of graduated bands are introduced. Did you know that HMRC asserts that less than 10% of all people dying each year pay IHT?
Capital Allowances £50,000 annual investment allowance remains This is ‘French’ for 100% 1st year allowance on 1st £50k of Capital Investment
40% FYA introduced for expenditure above IA level for one year only More messing about, but it is a step in right direction. BUT businesses need this long-term so they can invest with confidence
Vans Company Vans Still the best tax-free business perk going, thanks to Gordon’s changes a while back. Especially if you buy a double-cab pickup with CD multi-changer, climate control and leather seats - Dohh!
Tax Evasion Yet another clampdown to net in £10-15 bn. (allegedly) Apparently the HMIT & DSS are still not trying very hard to collect all the tax due and to stop all the fraud we indulge in, and are surrounded by.
Civil Service Continued headcount reductions in next few years We are paying a fortune for semi-employed civil servants with little to do, so the axe is being wielded – or so Government says. Quite how it is to be done is most intriguing…
Enterprise The usual warm words Little of actual content here
FUEL Fuel not going up at the moment.2p promised on 1st Sept But the next government will jack it up big-time to help balance the hole in the books. There will be a Budget very soon after the general election in May 2010, and it will be ouch!
BOOZE Beer & Cider up 1p per pintWine up 4p per bottle5p on sparkling wineSpirits 13p change Still not enough of us go to France to buy our drinks apparently, so we need bigger incentives
FAGS Up 7p per packet Ditto
Stamp Duty Extended for 0% on up to £175,000 house sales.1% up to £250,0003% to £500,0004% Beckhams Goes back to £125,000 band on 1.1.010 (allegedly)
Council Tax Businesses get this years increase spread over next 3 years zzz… Pointless tiny concession that has created havoc at councils as it was announced on 31.3.09 only once all the bills had gone out. Are Muppets in charge?
Bingo No vat on charges now The government gambles big-time, so we are to be encouraged also.
ISA The annual allowance is up to £10,200 (£7,200) …but it’s pointless saving with interest rates soooo low.
Car Scrappage Government has introduced a £2,000 trade-in allowance if you buy a new car and scrap the old one This is financed only half by government, and half very reluctantly by manufacturers.This measure is very un-green, and wasteful of our precious resources, and pointless as it will only have a marginal effect on decisions. And of course another fraud opportunity is created as you have to “own” the vehicle for more than 12 months, but as we have repeatedly been told by DVLA “the registration certificate is not evidence of ownership” zzzzz. So it’s your (truthful) word against the stony grant-giver
Pensions Higher-rate relief on contributions abolished for 2010/11+ What about withdrawing Corporation Tax relief on Goodwinesque contributions by employers ?– that’s who we should be clobbering
PSBR The mountain for 2009/10 is guessed at £175 billion And for loads more years to come, and then when we’ve finished borrowing this we have to start slooooowly paying it back. To join the €uro we need PSBR to be less than 3% of GDP. Projection for next few years is much higher at 12%
Red Tape To be abolished Again !
Other To come Once Finance Bill is published there will be more secrets revealed…..
Strangely…..
Nothing about eliminating the tax-free status of air travel to reduce the unsupportable growth in London airports. E.g. maybe making airlines pay fuel duty on their aviation fuel. - after all international lorries do.
Didn’t hear anything about a consortium to finish off the replacement for Concorde, or tax relief for assisting the rest of Britain’s superb engineering and design expertise.
Or massive investment in transport prior to 2012, so it’ll be ‘Bombay railways’ for a few weeks.
No cash limits on the NHS spending so it will carry on escalating at an un-supportable rate
Abell Morliss Chartered Accountants 128 Cannon Workshops, Cannon Drive, London E14 4AS
Regulated by the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales
regd. no. 3517869 regd. office:- Scope House, 18 Clarendon Road, South Woodford, London E18 2AW
These notes are subject to change in the light of errors being detected, or facts being found, on government websites ©MMIX Abell Morliss Limited.
Spring 2009 – c. number 22
“meeting the aspirations of the British people”
Or…..
Chancellor rearranges the deckchairs…..…despite everyone pointing out the iceberg we had just hit amidships
abell morliss
chartered accountants
accounting for successes
phone +44(0)207 719 8282
fax +44(0)709 230 4642
email at abell@chartered.org
website http://www.chartered.org
post to :-
128 Cannon Workshops Cannon Drive London E14 4AS
PDF of this briefing note here………..bud09 spring.pdf
We set out below comments on the Spring Budget presented by our Chancellor in April 2009. The Budget was as usual, waffle by the uninformed (i.e. non-accountants/economists) imposing on the masses what they don’t want. The only truth told in the statement was that we are in a recession, something he refused to acknowledge last time.
Thankfully we are not at present being asked to pay back all the ludicrous government borrowing incurred since c. 2000, and now accelerating out of control at an astounding rate. This does show the foolhardiness of borrowing to your limit when the going is good – 1997-2006 – and who was holding the fiscal reins when this was done in our name? Oh Gordon B., as there is now no cushion to use up when the going gets tough. Our national debt as a %of gdp should have been running way below the max allowed by our masters in Bruxelles when the going was good, so that we could now notch things up a bit without hysteria in all quarters. Did you know that in the next 5 years the government is going to double the entire extant amount of the government debt i.e. all the money ever borrowed net before.
We should really be being clobbered by tax increases now, supported by a massive reining in of the ridiculous levels of government spending which we have incurred over the last few years. Even in this appalling economic situation the government has merely reduced the real rate of growth of government spending, not even halted it.
When you look through there is no real statement of how we are going to clear the unbelievable amounts of debt being incurred, really because no one has a clue how we are going to manage it within a vaguely imaginable timeframe. The only real hope is that the ‘astute investments’ in the bombed-out British banks come good, and we can flog the shares for massive profits in about 5 years time to pay it all off. Otherwise plan B is that we will have a PSDR liability of £10bn. per year for the lifetime of our grandchildren.
.
ITEM Government Abell Morliss Comment
Corporation Tax Rate to remain at 21% up to £300,000 profits28% over that We should fix on 20% and 25% with a long-term commitment to keep rates un-changed, to steal some international attention
Income Tax Rates Bands rise:-20% is the basic band for 09/10 up to £37,400 from £34,80040% on excessNB. Savings income up to £2,440 (08/09 2,320) taxed at 10% still NB. Don’t forget that the effective max. rate of tax is already 40% plus 1% NIC making 41%. In 2010/11 Darlings last Budget will introduce a 50% (+1%) on income above £150,000, he saysAlso a sly reduction in personal allowance for incomes over £100,000
Personal Allowances New rate from 6.4.09 is £6,475 (from £6,035)
Notional Insurance 11% serfs up to £44,000 salary, then only 1% everything above12.8% paid by the rulers Still not abolished !It is crazy not to incorporate this into our standard tax systems. Government spouts about reducing red tape, and this would massively help business admin at the stroke of a pen
Capital Gains Tax Rate remains at 18%10% for selling business assets Our views are controversial here, so no comment
Annual exempt amount up from £9,600 to £10,100 This is another personal allowance if you can make the gains
VAT Stays at 15% to 31.12.09 then back to 17.5% Allegedly…1.7.10 more likely à after the (May 2010) election
Inheritance Tax Threshold up to £325,000 (from £312,000) Must still carry on holding off dying until a sensible set of graduated bands are introduced. Did you know that HMRC asserts that less than 10% of all people dying each year pay IHT?
Capital Allowances £50,000 annual investment allowance remains This is ‘French’ for 100% 1st year allowance on 1st £50k of Capital Investment
40% FYA introduced for expenditure above IA level for one year only More messing about, but it is a step in right direction. BUT businesses need this long-term so they can invest with confidence
Vans Company Vans Still the best tax-free business perk going, thanks to Gordon’s changes a while back. Especially if you buy a double-cab pickup with CD multi-changer, climate control and leather seats - Dohh!
Tax Evasion Yet another clampdown to net in £10-15 bn. (allegedly) Apparently the HMIT & DSS are still not trying very hard to collect all the tax due and to stop all the fraud we indulge in, and are surrounded by.
Civil Service Continued headcount reductions in next few years We are paying a fortune for semi-employed civil servants with little to do, so the axe is being wielded – or so Government says. Quite how it is to be done is most intriguing…
Enterprise The usual warm words Little of actual content here
FUEL Fuel not going up at the moment.2p promised on 1st Sept But the next government will jack it up big-time to help balance the hole in the books. There will be a Budget very soon after the general election in May 2010, and it will be ouch!
BOOZE Beer & Cider up 1p per pintWine up 4p per bottle5p on sparkling wineSpirits 13p change Still not enough of us go to France to buy our drinks apparently, so we need bigger incentives
FAGS Up 7p per packet Ditto
Stamp Duty Extended for 0% on up to £175,000 house sales.1% up to £250,0003% to £500,0004% Beckhams Goes back to £125,000 band on 1.1.010 (allegedly)
Council Tax Businesses get this years increase spread over next 3 years zzz… Pointless tiny concession that has created havoc at councils as it was announced on 31.3.09 only once all the bills had gone out. Are Muppets in charge?
Bingo No vat on charges now The government gambles big-time, so we are to be encouraged also.
ISA The annual allowance is up to £10,200 (£7,200) …but it’s pointless saving with interest rates soooo low.
Car Scrappage Government has introduced a £2,000 trade-in allowance if you buy a new car and scrap the old one This is financed only half by government, and half very reluctantly by manufacturers.This measure is very un-green, and wasteful of our precious resources, and pointless as it will only have a marginal effect on decisions. And of course another fraud opportunity is created as you have to “own” the vehicle for more than 12 months, but as we have repeatedly been told by DVLA “the registration certificate is not evidence of ownership” zzzzz. So it’s your (truthful) word against the stony grant-giver
Pensions Higher-rate relief on contributions abolished for 2010/11+ What about withdrawing Corporation Tax relief on Goodwinesque contributions by employers ?– that’s who we should be clobbering
PSBR The mountain for 2009/10 is guessed at £175 billion And for loads more years to come, and then when we’ve finished borrowing this we have to start slooooowly paying it back. To join the €uro we need PSBR to be less than 3% of GDP. Projection for next few years is much higher at 12%
Red Tape To be abolished Again !
Other To come Once Finance Bill is published there will be more secrets revealed…..
Strangely…..
Nothing about eliminating the tax-free status of air travel to reduce the unsupportable growth in London airports. E.g. maybe making airlines pay fuel duty on their aviation fuel. - after all international lorries do.
Didn’t hear anything about a consortium to finish off the replacement for Concorde, or tax relief for assisting the rest of Britain’s superb engineering and design expertise.
Or massive investment in transport prior to 2012, so it’ll be ‘Bombay railways’ for a few weeks.
No cash limits on the NHS spending so it will carry on escalating at an un-supportable rate
Abell Morliss Chartered Accountants 128 Cannon Workshops, Cannon Drive, London E14 4AS
Regulated by the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales
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