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Milliband mansion tax?
bigfreddiel
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The proposed mansion tax on houses worth in excess of £2m will raise about £1.5bn for the NHS
Sounds a lot doesn't it?
Well in actual fact it will fund the NHS for about 10 days!
Not quite as good as it sounds is it!
Let's just hope this is mentioned or queried
Cheers fj
Sounds a lot doesn't it?
Well in actual fact it will fund the NHS for about 10 days!
Not quite as good as it sounds is it!
Let's just hope this is mentioned or queried
Cheers fj
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I don't get your logic. So don't fund the NHS with extra money? What's your point? It's not raising enough? See the IFS latest report. They have several detailed pages on it.0
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bigfreddiel wrote: »The proposed mansion tax on houses worth in excess of £2m will raise about £1.5bn for the NHS
Sounds a lot doesn't it?
Well it'd fund my department's cuts and job losses for 3,000 years...
Edit: If American billions, anyway. If British Billions you'd have me for 3,000,000 more years.0 -
Thanks for the information0
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I don't get your logic. So don't fund the NHS with extra money? What's your point? It's not raising enough? See the IFS latest report. They have several detailed pages on it.
My point is that it's only 1% and that doesn't sound as good as one point five billion now does it
Thanks for your comment tho'
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Well it'd fund my department's cuts and job losses for 3,000 years...
Edit: If American billions, anyway. If British Billions you'd have me for 3,000,000 more years.
I'm sure it would, but what if you only had a 1% increase! how long would that last because that's all one point five billion is to the NHS!
Cheers fj0 -
Overnight prices will fall. Better option would be to own a nice pad overseas. Rather than pay £3k a year for a property around the threshold.
Connecting the mansion tax to the NHS is pure electioneering.0 -
bigfreddiel wrote: »The proposed mansion tax on houses worth in excess of £2m will raise about £1.5bn for the NHS
Sounds a lot doesn't it?
Well in actual fact it will fund the NHS for about 10 days!
Not quite as good as it sounds is it!
Let's just hope this is mentioned or queried
Cheers fj
However if it helps stop people launder money in cash property safes i am well up for it. We have a huge property bubble in luxury properties which is a massive speculative mess.
Why not tax these cronies to give our nurses, porters, cleaners a 1% pay rise and get some cancer drugs?:exclamatiScams - Shared Equity, Shared Ownership, Newbuy, Firstbuy and Help to Buy.
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Yep, that £1.5b is much better off in the pockets of the people who need it the least.
Why bother with tax at all?0 -
Maybe this should be moved to the "housing debate" board, although the level of the contribution of the OP is probably insufficient to merit the term. It would be a real shame if party trolls started ruining this board.0
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Don't worry OP. I don't think the mansion tax applies to bridges."Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance" - Confucius0
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