when you reach breaking point

GreyQueen

Beccatje wrote: »

Food is exempt. That stays at the low rate of 6% for now. Everything else is fair game.

That's harsh. We don't have it on food at all. It's 5% on domestic electicity and gas bills.

They'll be content when they've pauperised us all, I suppose. But you can't get blood out of a stone; what gets spent there won't be spent elsewhere and more businesses will go under and reduce the tax take still further. Spectacular own goal.

maryb

Someone ought to tell them that winning the war on poverty doesn't mean defeating the poor!

gallygirl

GreyQueen wrote: »

That's harsh. We don't have it on food at all.

Well, apart from:
Products where VAT is payable
Wholly or partly chocolate coated biscuits
Gingerbread man decorated with chocolate (unless this amounts to no more than two chocolate eyes!)
Arctic Rolls
Sorbet
Chocolate bar
Nuts or fruits covered in chocolate or yogurt
Flavourings for milk shake
Potato crisps
Roasted or salted nuts without shells

GreyQueen

maryb wrote: »

Someone ought to tell them that winning the war on poverty doesn't mean defeating the poor!

:j Someone should carve this in huge letters somewhere prominent......so very true.

gallygirl wrote: »

Well, apart from:
Products where VAT is payable
Wholly or partly chocolate coated biscuits
Gingerbread man decorated with chocolate (unless this amounts to no more than two chocolate eyes!)
Arctic Rolls
Sorbet
Chocolate bar
Nuts or fruits covered in chocolate or yogurt
Flavourings for milk shake
Potato crisps
Roasted or salted nuts without shells

:eek: Oh no, they've put it on chocolate, I had no idea. So this means every time I shell out a £1 on a bar those barstewards are getting 20p? Gonna give it up immediately and spend it on tinned potatoes.

That'll keep the [STRIKE]zombies[/STRIKE] wolf from the door.

Thanks for the info, I innocently thought all food was exempt.

gallygirl

GreyQueen wrote: »

h no, they've put it on chocolate, I had no idea. So this means every time I shell out a £1 on a bar those barstewards are getting 20p? Gonna give it up immediately and spend it on tinned potatoes.

That'll keep the zombies wolf from the door.


Thanks for the info, I innocently thought all food was exempt.

Ha ha - best stick to JAFFA CAKES:rotfl:

COOLTRIKERCHICK

I hope that the increase in VAT in the netherlands dont give any ideas to our government to do the same:o

adelight

GreyQueen wrote: »

They'll be content when they've pauperised us all, I suppose. But you can't get blood out of a stone; what gets spent there won't be spent elsewhere and more businesses will go under and reduce the tax take still further. Spectacular own goal.

But you know they'll try damned hard to do so!!
The gap between the erm haves and have-nots, or whatever you call it, is just getting bigger I read in the Evening Standard last week about trialing three months work for free before claiming JSA if you've not worked for more than six months. You just know that those who can afford to not claim just won't claim so they don't have to do it and certain companies won't bother recruiting when they have a constant supply of [STRIKE]slaves[/STRIKE] staff. They reckon it's giving back to the community but all I've heard of so far is people working in £land and the like! If it really was all about the community then I would be all for it but frankly anything to do with JSA seems to be made as humiliating as possible.

iQueen

adelight wrote: »

But you know they'll try damned hard to do so!!
The gap between the erm haves and have-nots, or whatever you call it, is just getting bigger I read in the Evening Standard last week about trialing three months work for free before claiming JSA if you've not worked for more than six months. You just know that those who can afford to not claim just won't claim so they don't have to do it and certain companies won't bother recruiting when they have a constant supply of [STRIKE]slaves[/STRIKE] staff. They reckon it's giving back to the community but all I've heard of so far is people working in £land and the like! If it really was all about the community then I would be all for it but frankly anything to do with JSA seems to be made as humiliating as possible.

Slaves or staff are people. But companies today use Human Resources... along with other resources such as, bricks, fuel, computers, machinery, cement, etc etc etc.

Pippin12

I have long term health problems and I am terrifed about what is going to happen to me with the new benefit changes. Thankyou to all who have contributed to this thread, I realise I am not alone and it's a hard time for a lot of people in many different circumstances...

COOLTRIKERCHICK

I am going to be £20 odd a week worse off soon, as Youngest has left school, doesnt want to go to collage and volenteers in a shop on a saturday, he only gets paid if he covers a shift for someone... He doesnt want to work anywhere else, as he is worried he will have to give up his saturdays tworking in this place..

Its all well and good asking him to get a job etc, but he is a typical 'kevin and perry' teenager:rotfl: