Child tax credit limit reduced to £26,000

melly1980

If anyone else wants their childs dance classes paying for just inform me where to send the cheque to. I'd imagine by cutting out the middle man known as the tax man and thus saving wages I reckon that we could find a way of me paying directly for all your wants and needs while paying less thanI am now via the tax system. A win/win really.

Dunroamin

gillybean129 wrote: »

although it's only £10 a week it's a massive £545 per year which buys my daughter clothes and dancing classes and anything else she needs for school, nothing has been said about this. This just isn't fair:mad::mad::mad:

BANG!!!


(Sound of poster shooting herself in the foot!)

Firefox1975

Is it a pre requisite for school that Children are able to dance these days?

This society really has gone strange!

skibadee

All these things make me laugh, I think we've all got too used too the government/benefits agency picking up the tab, my parents had none of these 'luxuries'.....yet we still had a enjoyable childhood, food on the table, clothes on our back.......my father worked, my mother took what ever work she could and still managed to look after 3 children, I think the problem is these days we all want too much ie., the latest tv/mobile phones/cars/new furniture ( replacing what we've got rather than looking after what we've got ) we all are trying to live beyond our means and have forgotten the basics in life.

midnight_express

Yes tax credits are awful, sooner they abolish them the better.

Mrs_Arcanum

This has far more to do with the issue of the middle getting squeezed yet again. Not forgetting those going just into the next tax bracket also lose child benefit. :mad:

Yes the whole system of Tax Credits is a mess and has been used as a means for many businesses to get more for less.

It will appear you either have to not work & have the welfare state fund your children, or be so well off you can pay an accountant to avoid paying taxes. The majority in the middle end up funding everyone else, the child tax credit at least made you feel you were getting a little bit back.

Oh & for those tax payers complaining they are paying for someone else's children to do X,Y or Z. My DH is paying more than enough tax to cover ours all by himself, so we are self funding in that respect.

janninew

melly1980 wrote: »

If anyone else wants their childs dance classes paying for just inform me where to send the cheque to. I'd imagine by cutting out the middle man known as the tax man and thus saving wages I reckon that we could find a way of me paying directly for all your wants and needs while paying less thanI am now via the tax system. A win/win really.

Do you not have several children melly that you claim CB for? Should single childless folk who pay tax have to contribute to your children? Child benefit is a benefit paid for the same way as tax credits!

melly1980

janninew wrote: »

Do you not have several children melly that you claim CB for? Should single childless folk who pay tax have to contribute to your children? Child benefit is a benefit paid for the same way as tax credits!

While that may be true, im not hard faced enough to EXPECT others should pay for my kids. thats the difference.

What I have critisised on here, is someone going "wah wah wah thats not fair, who will pay for my kids dance classes now"

Completely different.

janninew

melly1980 wrote: »

While that may be true, im not hard faced enough to EXPECT others should pay for my kids. thats the difference.

What I have critisised on here, is someone going "wah wah wah thats not fair, who will pay for my kids dance classes now"

Completely different.

I don't think the poster was being hard faced, both parents work full time in her case and I assume pay tax. As others have said, its the middle earners that are feeling the pince. If they are just over £26,000 per year they aren't big earners (£13,000 P/A per adult isn't a great wage). You said it wasn't fair that tax payers paid for her child's dance class. Some people may say its not fair that they pay tax to fund your children!

melly1980

janninew wrote: »

Some people may say its not fair that they pay tax to fund your children!

but nobody is saying otherwise. The difference is Im not whining about unfairness because others are no longerpaying for luxuries for my kids.

The only comments on this board that I have ever complained about regarding the loss of any benefitis if you lose that benefit but people who have more cash than you get it. This is fundametally unfair and wrong. I have never at any point whined about losing something with the argument of "who will pay for my kids dance classes"
Its just a ludicrous argument.