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Government wants stamp duty and tax cuts for buy to let.
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ad44downey wrote: »FTBers should get favourable treatment over BTL chancers though. I'd tax the BTlet lowlife at about 90% until they squeak
And you'd be cutting off your nose to spite your face as there would then be nowhere to rent.(AKA HRH_MUngo)
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Imagine someone holding forth on biology whose only knowledge of the subject is the Book of British Birds, and you have a rough idea of what it feels like to read Richard Dawkins on theology: Terry Eagleton0 -
:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:Perhaps kick out criminal families in favour of hard working ones. Sorry I think council rented accomadation should be reserved for those who want to improve their lives and look after their children rather than in some cases the lodgings for drug dealers and lay abouts.
Call it social engineering but I believe a tax payer funded home should be for those who contribute (or show willing to) rather than destroy society.
You are as bad as Brown, what do you do? A time and motion study to identify the hard working ones.
Buying = Good if you have external resources when you retire e.g. company pension (no rent to pay).
Buying = Bad if you have no external resources when you retire (state will pay your rent anyway).'Just think for a moment what a prospect that is. A single market without barriers visible or invisible giving you direct and unhindered access to the purchasing power of over 300 million of the worlds wealthiest and most prosperous people' Margaret Thatcher0 -
Quite right.Amba_Gambla wrote: »I was outraged...... then I saw the link was for the Daily Mail...
BLAME THE IMMIGRANTS!
They are going home reducing rental demand.I'm not cynical I'm realistic
(If a link I give opens pop ups I won't know I don't use windows)0 -
Yep, I'm sure you do - a range so vast, balanced and top-notch however that the Daily Mail was your quoted source :cool:I get my news from a vast range of sources, variety broadens the mind.
No upset whatsover - reading your post gave me a good :rotfl:, no...tbh... more of a :rotfl::rotfl:sooooo p-r-e-d-i-c-t-a-b-l-e.Sorry my post upset you, it was designed to stimulate debate from all sides. I hope your past goes well and number of reply posts increase as it is a bit of a ghost town at the moment.
Glad to have been able to help Brit: it was there to share & distribute freely and clearly your own wide-ranging research methods had failed to hit on it prior to you seeing my postOh by the way I've pinched the link for this thread.
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