budget !! how was it for you !! work out your gains?losses

mikemoate

Echo the above sentiments. Hope something turns up for you real soon.

i will be £44.49 worse off, a smoker, drinker and driver. Pales in to insignificance when you hear the effect upon other people.

Katyag

Says we will be just under £50 better off! Hmmm will see, good job we dont drink or smoke aint it!!

crashgoddess

£128.10 better off, ill believe it when i see it lol

margaretclare

Not a lot. Didn't expect it to be.

Free bus travel nationally in 2 years' time and free bus travel locally this year - it's useless to all those of us 'golden oldies' who need to keep on driving as long as we can. OK, I'll get a more environmentally-friendly car than our 'M' reg Fiesta, that's as soon as I can save up for one!

I am firmly of the opinion that this country will continue to be in a mess so long as we no longer have the savings culture. Paying off debts by taking out another loan is the way people think. How can the UK economy be 'strong' when so many of our jobs have been exported to other countries. We're now a net importer of energy which makes us terribly vulnerable. Look at the Norwegians - they've got it sussed.

Margaret Clare

sm9ai

£74 a year, not too bad I suppose.

exil

I think I end up slightly worse off, as the top of the 11% NI band has gone up, and that cancels out the gains from the bigger tax threshold. Also we get the basic 545 CTC which isn't going up.

Never mind. My partner IS better off, so partner to buy the teabags this year!

Margaret

It is a puzzle. The world's strongest economy of all is the US, but it has even less of a manufacturing industry then we do, imports huge amounts of energy, and their govt is running a gigantic deficit.

Conversely, the Japanese save far more of their income than we do - yet their economy has been in big trouble for years.

pchelpman

pault123 > Like the others I hope you get e new job soon.

When I read about this scrapping of the HCI I was amazed .... the Treasury scrapping it when, at virtually the same time, the DTI were promoting it saying what a great scheme it was. Joined up government thinking ... NOT. Gives you confidence in the people trying to run our country. If they don't talk to each other what hope the rest of us?

Also ... for those of your filing self assesment Tax Returns ... I assume you noticed the shortening of the filing deadline?

For those of you filing in paper form the dealine is brought forward 4 months to 30th September. If filing online it's brought forward 2 months.

The self assessment population can't cope with the 10 months dealine we have now let alone trying to get it all done months earlier.

Not to mention the Revenue staff who aslo can't cope now. What are they going to do with an even tighter deadline?

Also coming up are tighter deadlines of up to 5 months earlier for limited companies to file all their accounts, tax declarations and tax payments.

And why bring the deadlines forward? No sensible reason I can think of.

The mind boggles at all this crass stupitidy.