The Gordon Brown 20% Tax Con.

dwileflunker

Farway wrote: »

Which is fair enough as people should be in work until at least 65

That's a bit of a dictatorial statement. Surely people should be able to stop work at any age they want, providing they can afford to do so.

millie

I am 61 and have defferred my pension and am still working. I do the payroll as part of my job, and I earn £162 per week, I did this weeks payroll today and my tax has gone up by £3.01 a week, the extra £50 fuel allowance wont come near to making up my loss.

dwileflunker

millie wrote: »

I am 61 and have defferred my pension and am still working. I do the payroll as part of my job, and I earn £162 per week, I did this weeks payroll today and my tax has gone up by £3.01 a week, the extra £50 fuel allowance wont come near to making up my loss.

And regretably others are even worse off than you. I think Mr Brown has shot himself in the foot this time. I hope it's the beginning of his end.

NAR

Farway wrote: »

Which is fair enough as people should be in work until at least 65

Total garbage! I will have worked 40 years by the time I am 60 and don't intend to work thereafter. Who knows if I will make 60, but if I do I intend to enjoy life with my wife as long as possible - ski ing!! :j :j :beer:

dwileflunker

NAR wrote: »

Total garbage! I will have worked 40 years by the time I am 60 and don't intend to work thereafter. Who knows if I will make 60, but if I do I intend to enjoy life with my wife as long as possible - ski ing!! :j :j :beer:

Here! Here! There's more to life than work.

balmaiden

My Dh and I worked hard and saved hard to enable us to give up work early. me 2 years ago at 50, him 2 months ago at 61.

My husband had worked as an eletrician from the age of 15 and there is no way that he " should be in work until he is 65" If you are nice and cosy in a warm office enjoying your job, fair enough. It's a different matter all together if you are doing a hard, physically demanding job on a building site ankle deep in water and mud with rain/ hail/ snow blowing in your face!!

Errata

Nobody laid on their deathbed muttering "I wish I'd spent more time at work".

papito

this is a free UK tax calculation that may be useful to some, sorry if has been posted before, I'll open a new Thread if not....

http://www.listentotaxman.com/

BritBrat

icarusi wrote: »

I just saw that! It's rediculous that earners under £18500 pa under 65 should be facing a tax *increase* at the expense of those earning *above* £18500. Whoever thought this one up should get a good kicking!

Where does the campaign start! Sign me up yesterday!

Had a look at the Taxpayers Alliance website, but nothing there. They seem to be more concerned at public sector profligacy than inequality.

I've contacted Unison who've probably many members in the under £18,500 bracket and pointed them to the Workin Lunch item. Strange that nobody else has published this, or at least not in the legible way WL has.

They will get a good kicking in May and later will get the boot.

And to think I was a labour party member for years and used to door knock and get people to vote Labour.

If I had a choice now I would vote for the British National Party, not that I am racist in any way but who else looks like a party for the common man?

ManAtHome

Well, they have to rob somebody to pay for their perks, and they're not going to target the rich - who else will give them a nice little earner when they leave office..?

Anyway, one of the first things they did was to rob future pensioners - wasn't much of backlash on that one was there? Maybe it's just that more people are now seeing how they've trashed the economy...