MSE News: Queen's Speech: Taxes to be frozen for five years

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Measures to ban income tax, VAT and national insurance rises over the next five years have been announced by the Queen...
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Somebody currently on minimum wage working 30 hours a week would already be below the personal tax allowance, wouldn't they?
30hrs x £6.50 = £195
£195 x 52 = £10,140
The personal tax allowance is currently £10,600.
Are we being conned by the Cons?
30 hours a week is part time, not full time. Full time hours are usually 35-40.
Ah yes ... the more people the country has grafting at the coalface who are not contributing to the cost of state welfare, the more you can keep reminding them they are lucky to be here, and the more easily restrict their rights when they need help.
Beautiful.
Oh yeah ... we can keep their reward for labour at rock bottom too ... lovely ... wage slaves cornered for another five years of fearing for their cr¤p jobs but they still arrive at work day after day for the price of a Big Mac Meal for every hour they work. They won't starve then, will they?
No tax though ... that'd be a piffling amount anyway, wouldn't it? Cost too much to collect. Nah, let 'em take their wage packets and blow the lot on treating themselves and the bairns while they can ... they'll need to, because their country won't pick up any pieces beyond a short stay in A&E if they fall ... it ain't set up that way.
This is No country for poor people. Better get rich quick, or toe the line ... get ready and set for another five years of posh boys who don't know the price of milk except this time without the moderating voice of any conscience politicians.
I hadn't realised I had mentioned full/part-time. I was just quoting what was in the Queen's speech and noting that if someone was currently working 30 hours a week on minimum wage they wouldn't notice any difference as they already don't pay tax.
In the words of The Style Council's The Lodger:
'And if you believe all this you must be out of your mind.'
They may not change the rates, but you can bet they'll manipulate the bandings to increase what people pay. Employee's NI is a very likely target and I could easily see them extending the 12% band and still have the cheek to claim it's not a 'rise'. Similarly the could extend the scope of VAT (another 'pasty tax') and, in their twisted logic, claim exactly the same. Don't believe a word of what they tell you.
Sky? Believe in better.
Note: win, draw or lose (not 'loose' - opposite of tight!)
What it guarantees is that those earning minimum wage and working full time will pay tax for the next 5 years.
why is that a good thing?
Then her assistant came back with calculations refuting me. I pointed out to him that his calculations combined the current NMW rate with the expected 19-20 starting point of tax. And that if you use the NMW rates and tax tables which are consistent with each other for 15-16, 16-17, 17-18, 18-19 and 19-20 then a full-time NMW person pays tax every year. That ended the exchange of views but did not end the use of the slogan.
Not that the other parties were any better. In my view, it was the worst election since 1983 in terms of the choices on option, each and every one of the main 5 parties had a £15bn per year minimum hole in their numbers.
I would expect a competent government to legislate in such a way as to prevent that. I have no confidence that this government will be competent.