What do you want to see mentioned in this year's Budget?

lizziep

cancel VAT on items where you already pay a tax such as fuel - we pay fuel duty so it's grossly unfair to then pay VAT as well.

William_Barnes

Allow cash to be invested up to the whole ISA limit, rather than half. Shares are TOO risky.

Allow money held in Stocks and Shares ISAs to be transferred to a Cash ISA with no penalty.

Scrap Housing and travel expenses for any MP living within 150 miles of Westminster. They can commute or rent locally like everyone else has too that commutes from that far away or further.

cepheus

How about dropping the whole help to buy nonsense to stop inflating house prices and mortgages in one corner of the country and release taxpayers from underwriting speculators.

A windfall tax on Royal Mail to retrieve lost revenue from grossly under-pricing the company.

Kame_2

I have just emailed to ask for an overhaul of stamp duty - particularly the fact that each change in the rate applies to the entire purchase price rather than bands (like income tax).

darkfool58

make sure the road tax money actually goes on the roads

custardy

cepheus wrote: »

How about dropping the whole help to buy nonsense to stop inflating house prices and mortgages in one corner of the country and release taxpayers from underwriting speculators.

A windfall tax on Royal Mail to retrieve lost revenue from grossly under-pricing the company.

How would you get that from RM?
Surely you mean they as a company lost out?

Are you happy to knock say 30% off your house and sell?

OOPOS491

I believe that any company making substantial profits and/or paying their executives huge salaries, [say over £250,000] should not be allowed to employ people on minimum wage or zero hours contracts. Many working people are forced into claiming benefits such as child tax credit - why should the taxpayer have to subsidise their wages while their employers make huge profits? At the very least, it is the business who should pay the benefit. Minimum wage is only acceptable for small businesses making low profits. And please don't quote profits in a percentage - e.g. energy companies say they only make 5% profit which doesn't sound a lot until you realise they are making 5% of such a massive turnover that their profits can run into billions. Obscene for such businesses to be paying minimum wage.
As to those who say that such measures will have these executives leaving the country in droves with major job losses - oh please, I am tired of hearing this. The same was said when the minium wage was first brought in and it didn't happen ten and won't happen now. Where are they all going to go? This still a great country to live in - apart from the fact that it is acceptable for a few to have so much money they couldn't ever spend it while many working people have to choose between heating and eating.

NatFeerick

Gosh, where do you start!? Agree with many of the above comments about stamp duty, All-cash ISA's, reducing the benefits cap to £30k, 0% tax on minimum wage, scrap the help to buy scheme which is just going to result in mass reposessions further down the line. I think all politicians within a 2 hour commute of Westminster should not get a second home allowance (they told us a 2 hour commute was reasonable for jobseekers!) - the whole idea of a home close to Westminster originated in the days when most sessions were held in the evening and went on late into the night when travelling home to their constituencies became difficult. That is no longer the case.
In view of the destruction of the Devon-Cornwall railway in yesterday's storm, is it not high time the expensive and largely unwanted HS2 Rail programme was scrapped and the funds diverted to areas like this?

BobbinAlong

1. Tax cars by postcode - those in rural areas pay least as they have poor alternative public transport whilst those in cities pay highest.

2. Scrap tv licence and all associated costly quango and collect licence as part of council tax so council just pays block sum.

3. Scrap parental assessment on student loans (and save associated quango costs) by giving every student full maintenance and collecting from BOTH parents through tax code means testing. Currently absent parent doesn't pay and/or many parents don't fill in assessment forms leaving students struggling with reduced money.

custardy

BobbinAlong wrote: »

1. Tax cars by postcode - those in rural areas pay least as they have poor alternative public transport whilst those in cities pay highest.

2. Scrap tv licence and all associated costly quango and collect licence as part of council tax so council just pays block sum.

3. Scrap parental assessment on student loans (and save associated quango costs) by giving every student full maintenance and collecting from BOTH parents through tax code means testing. Currently absent parent doesn't pay and/or many parents don't fill in assessment forms leaving students struggling with reduced money.

so do people in rural areas not have the option of £0 rated cars?