Chancellor's Autumn Statement

HAMISH_MCTAVISH

grizzly1911 wrote: »

You need a special car sir not an acceptable one. I take it you always travel fully laden?

I travel fully laden once or twice a week.

And who are you to determine special or acceptable? Many people living in rural areas require a similar specification. Large enough to carry a family or friends over long distances. Good range, reasonable power, 4wd for winter.

So again, where are the zero road tax vehicles for us?

As for safety on wintry roads slow down and drive within your limitations

4wd has nothing to do with driving faster. Simply with the ability to get there when other cars leave you stranded in ice and snow.

and for overtaking just be patient and only do it when it is safe to do so.

A car with decent power can overtake more safely, and on far more occasions, than a car with inadequate power.

Surely a concept simple enough for you to understand?

StevieJ

We need to embrace the new reality, we must amend the tax system within Europe to combat companies like Amazon, what chance have our local retailers got, it can only get worse. Soon the likes of PcWorld etc will be following the Amazon model and the only Corporation tax from retail will be from the local butty shop. Not sure what, but something needs doing.

Amazon.co.uk, Britain's biggest online retailer, generated sales of more than £3.3bn in the country last year but paid no corporation tax on any of the profits from that income – and is under investigation by the UK tax authorities.

HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) refused to confirm it was investigating Amazon.co.uk, and its inquiries could be a routine audit. But Amazon's tax affairs are being investigated in the US, China, Germany, France, Japan and Luxembourg.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/apr/04/amazon-british-operation-corporation-tax

HAMISH_MCTAVISH

StevieJ wrote: »

We need to embrace the new reality, we must amend the tax system within Europe to combat companies like Amazon, what chance have our local retailers got, it can only get worse. Soon the likes of PcWorld etc will be following the Amazon model and the only Corporation tax from retail will be from the local butty shop. Not sure what, but something needs doing.



http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/apr/04/amazon-british-operation-corporation-tax

Why do you want to pay more tax?

grizzly1911

HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »

I travel fully laden once or twice a week.

And who are you to determine special or acceptable? Many people living in rural areas require a similar specification. Large enough to carry a family or friends over long distances. Good range, reasonable power, 4wd for winter.

It is up to you what you drive and what you pay, the choice is yours. It is also your choice where you live.I appreciate that you do have bad winters up in McTavish country BTW.

So again, where are the zero road tax vehicles for us?

OK it is £20 a year, the Citroen would meet your specification. If they can do it don't see why other manufacturers can't. If you don't like the choice take it up with your chosen manufacturer.

http://www.carpages.co.uk/guide/citroen/citroen-ds5-dstyle-hybrid4-200-airdream-egs6.asp

http://www.carpages.co.uk/guide/citroen/citroen-ds5-dsport-hybrid4-200-airdream-egs6.asp



4wd has nothing to do with driving faster. Simply with the ability to get there when other cars leave you stranded in ice and snow.

In 30 + years of driving I have never been stranded in snow. I have seen lots who have been though.

A car with decent power can overtake more safely, and on far more occasions, than a car with inadequate power.

Don't dispute that, whether it needs to be done is another question.

Surely a concept simple enough for you to understand?

As I have said the choice is yours. If you feel you don't want to avail yourself of the paltry tax break so be it.

lvader

StevieJ wrote: »

We need to embrace the new reality, we must amend the tax system within Europe to combat companies like Amazon, what chance have our local retailers got, it can only get worse. Soon the likes of PcWorld etc will be following the Amazon model and the only Corporation tax from retail will be from the local butty shop. Not sure what, but something needs doing.



http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/apr/04/amazon-british-operation-corporation-tax

I'd like to see an EU corporation tax that pays for the EU budget.

Graham_Devon

Heard someone on the radio state that Balls could have done more damage by not speaking at all. As he did speak, it's shifted the focus onto Balls and away from Osborne.

Apparently he was trying to hard to damage Osborne, and in doing so, only damaged himself.

I just LOVE millibands face when Balls says the national defecit is not rising!

Zero_Sum

HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »

Really?

I need a new car now.

I need to be able to carry 5 large adults plus luggage in comfort for long journeys, drive around 35000 miles per year, much of it on back roads and in wintry weather, so 4 wheel drive is helpful and a reasonably powerful engine is important for passing safely on rural roads.

Kindly list the cars I can get with no road tax that meet that criteria.

modify a pre 1973 registered car

kabayiri

I find the Labour position disingenuous at best.

The large welfare bills and public sector pay bill are in no small part due to their largesse in the last decade.

The Labour spokeswoman on C4 news spoke of yet another PFI initiative being some sort of solution. Yeah, right, exactly what we need. £50bn more PFI borrowing !

BertieUK

I am getting rather tired of hearing the Chancellor saying were not going back to our old ways and that we are on track, then when the next figures are published he has to make more adjustments.

Does he really know what he is doing because someone who changes his mind so often is someone who really is not in charge of the situation.

I think that he should throw in the towel because that was the only job he has any experience of doing when he worked in Selfridges.

lvader

BertieUK wrote: »

I am getting rather tired of hearing the Chancellor saying were not going back to our old ways and that we are on track, then when the next figures are published he has to make more adjustments.

Does he really know what he is doing because someone who changes his mind so often is someone who really is not in charge of the situation.

I think that he should throw in the towel because that was the only job he has any experience of doing when he worked in Selfridges.

Do you really think that?