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The UK Budget 2010
worldtraveller
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With the Budget tomorrow what do people expect?
What would you like to see?
Any changes in personal taxation?
Do you expect VAT to remain at 17.5%
More Green Taxes? Tobin Taxes?
Personally I hope that Darling will maintain the small companies' Corporation Tax rate at 21% and not indicate any future increase yet to the 22% that was originally planned.
What would you like to see?
Any changes in personal taxation?
Do you expect VAT to remain at 17.5%
More Green Taxes? Tobin Taxes?
Personally I hope that Darling will maintain the small companies' Corporation Tax rate at 21% and not indicate any future increase yet to the 22% that was originally planned.
There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep sea, and music in its roar: I love not man the less, but Nature more...
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Expect
3p duty on petrol frozen.
A gift we should all be so grateful for. (presumably they want us to be grateful enough to vote for them:))
Lots of freezing of spending and beer and fags going up.
Don't think it will be to adventurous.0 -
Nothing..............Not Again0
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I expect to be told that Labour can eliminate the structural deficit, but its all through efficiency savings and the details are a secret.0
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I expect a Budget that will do next to nothing to face up to the massive fiscal disaster that is looming.'In nature, there are neither rewards nor punishments - there are Consequences.'0
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It will probably be the biggest non event ever. I don't expect anything of note.0
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Probably as usual...10p on a pack of cigs and 5p on a pint, blablabla...
This close to an election, I can't see any commitment to drastic cutting, nor huge tax increases. And he already implied there won't be any giveaways this time.0 -
You'd be better off running a book on frequency of use of the following terms/phrases :-
global
hard working families
green economy
budget for jobs
Yep, a complete bore. If he chucked in a bit of Paul Daniels magic in there it wouldn't be so dull.0 -
Local petrol station has within the last hour put 2p on petrol (after putting 2p on less than a week ago). Wonder if its countrywide price-gouging, or just local.0
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He can pretty much say what he likes. It is a more than resonable bet to say the real budget (ie in July/Aug) won't be delivered by him or anyone else from his disaster of a party...
As such I suggest he outlines a massive and sweeping tax on pot plants, subsidies to help the tallest 3% of society and a pledge to provide free balloons for the under 5's.Go round the green binbags. Turn right at the mouldy George Elliot, forward, forward, and turn left....at the dead badger0 -
You'd be better off running a book on frequency of use of the following terms/phrases :-
global
hard working families
green economy
budget for jobs
Yep, a complete bore. If he chucked in a bit of Paul Daniels magic in there it wouldn't be so dull.
You can bet on which cliche will be said first with Paddy Power.US housing: it's not a bubble
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