An interesting thing circulating on Facebook about Benefits!

Brassedoff

teajug wrote: »

Therefore the tax payer is paying to subsidizing big business as they do not pay a living wage to their employees. We are paying landlords over inflated rents because the government will not put a cap on them.

I have been paying taxes since I was 15 many years ago and will be paying them until I die and then if I have anything left over after care frees the government will take that also. :eek::eek:

Quick question, when well over 60%! Of all employees work for small businesses are they exempt? When Gordon Brown put 1% on to employers NI it really started to hurt me. I don't know if you are or have ever been an employer (someone who owns or part owns the business), but company's are glorified tax collectors for the Government. The current climate is hard enough for businesses medium and small, yet the burdens are still there.

People appear to believe that anyone owning a business or having an interest in several businesses don't have either compassion or the belief that employees should be compensated for their time in an adiquatec manner.

I have always paid people well, in fact very well compared to other firms but you never get repaid in the same manner by them all. A few just look at you as someone to take advantage of your good hosts.

I paid my staff over and above the figure in the NMW before it came out. That said, the sum paid in tax credits is excessive and the cost to the country may be a cost the nation cannot afford.

Be in no doubt, yesterday IB/ESA today DLA/PIP, tomorrow Working/child tax credits.

Brassedoff

dori2o wrote: »

^^^^^ well said.

It is time for regional caps on rents. Taxpayers should not be subsidising the pensions/bank balances of landlords.

It is also time to build 3M social housing homes including a return to high rise apartments. Not a mix of private homes for sale and social, just 3M social housing homes. It would instantly start to improve the economy and would provide sustainable incomes for councils via rent and council tax.

Do councils not already have an effective cap in progress? If I had a three bedroom house I was intending to rent at £1,000 a month, but the council only assess it at £600, is that not a cap? I am not sure, but the way I read it is that the way it works?

teajug

Brassedoff wrote: »

Quick question, when well over 60%! Of all employees work for small businesses are they exempt? When Gordon Brown put 1% on to employers NI it really started to hurt me. I don't know if you are or have ever been an employer (someone who owns or part owns the business), but company's are glorified tax collectors for the Government. The current climate is hard enough for businesses medium and small, yet the burdens are still there.

People appear to believe that anyone owning a business or having an interest in several businesses don't have either compassion or the belief that employees should be compensated for their time in an adiquatec manner.

I have always paid people well, in fact very well compared to other firms but you never get repaid in the same manner by them all. A few just look at you as someone to take advantage of your good hosts.

I paid my staff over and above the figure in the NMW before it came out. That said, the sum paid in tax credits is excessive and the cost to the country may be a cost the nation cannot afford.

Be in no doubt, yesterday IB/ESA today DLA/PIP, tomorrow Working/child tax credits.

When Brown brought down the tax threshold from 22% to 20% did that not benefit you?? As you know, I said big businesses no where else in my post did I say small or medium size business!!

As for VAT any business can claim that back but the Joe public pays VAT on almost everything they buy, but we cannot claim any of that back. :mad::mad: