Today's Budget

TangledMemories_2

my grandad has a saying: "if you have to ask how many mpg or what the tax costs on a new car you're looking to buy - you can't afford it" and he's right.

If people can shell out for the Band G gas guzzlers (which are on average £30k plus) they should be willing to pay the £300 per year for their tax.

My car tax has gone up by £20 for the year and yeah, it'll hurt handing over that extra £20 but at least my HGV's wont cost more!

Toto

I can't get a pasword emailed to me from the msn calculator, see even the internet knows how grumpy budgets make me, it's forcing me to stay away.

SunderlandBlackCat

I used the one on the BBC Website

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/bsp/hi/business/budget_calc/html/budget_calculator.stm

I'm going to be a massive £27 per year better off :j

livinginhope

catowen wrote: »

so im not even getting the whole £1.25 a week from the increase in child benefit then!!!!

Corr! £1.25 a week increase,is that all it is going to be? that wouldn't even pay for one school dinner I think it's a total disgrace :mad:

Toto

TangledMemories wrote: »

my grandad has a saying: "if you have to ask how many mpg or what the tax costs on a new car you're looking to buy - you can't afford it" and he's right.

If people can shell out for the Band G gas guzzlers (which are on average £30k plus) they should be willing to pay the £300 per year for their tax.

My car tax has gone up by £20 for the year and yeah, it'll hurt handing over that extra £20 but at least my HGV's wont cost more!

I don't agree with sweeping statements by and large, even from grandads (who are oracles in my experience). Some people need a bigger car, childminders, people like me who need to haul about large equipment. I didn't ask for it to be a gas guzzler, and I would rather it wasn't but I can't do my job (or one of them) if I can't transport the drum kit. Have you ever tried to get a 7 piece kit on the bus or in a taxi? My other half plays drums too, he has an old ford transit with a 2.5 litre engine. The people who don't need to worry about the increase are usually the people who really don't need a large car. The chelsea set who drop their single child at school in the middle of london 3 streets away from where they live, they don't care if the tax is £4,000 a year, they have the cash... not sure about the need though

If I could have an itsy bitsy car I would, but I can't. And yes I will take the rise on the chin, yet another occupational hazzard to being a musician, even the car insurance is more expensive if you can get insured, sometimes I think the insurance companies think we are all Keith Moon, drunken and drugged as standard :rotfl:

golddigger_3

Thanks for the link Oops a daisy - apparantly we are going to £184.41 better off! Wow suddenly Golden Brown doesnt look so much like a walrus!

gettingitsorted

ours showed we will be £550 better off

Sea78

I don't understand this- we'll be £360 better off! (tax credits & CB). Believe it when I see it.

Hmm..did something wrong and so amended it - now saying £421 better off. Thanks for the link!

Sea xx

auntie_brenda

£5 a year worse off, which is a decent bottle of wine basically so can live with it!

Mindy_2

I'm happy with our extra £225 a year, but I still don't like Gordon Brown!