The budget

[Harryburgundy]

Shame old sh*t

Peeps like us in the middle get fecked paying tax left right and centre.

 

[mattbrown]

that tax calculator is from labours budget in march not the current

 

[Easy_Rider]

20% VAT - gawd sakes, thats a real pisser. Food shopping goes up again.

Why not more tax on fags???

The missus' gets a pay freeze, or redundancy, whichever comes first :roll:

Only "luxury" foods are full VAT rated anyway, most food is zero rated

http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/MoneyTaxAnd ... DG_4015895

Just cut back on the cake and eat more biscuits

 

[mattbrown]

correct one here - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/10335476.stm

and about 250 quid better off,

actually scrap that - says here ill be about 90 quid worse off http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/pers ... e-off.html

even still, nout i will really notice

and now confused.com says ill be better off, oh well just have ot wait and see

http://www.confused.com/featured-articl ... 2274712952

 

[mattbrown]

Also we should be glad we only pay 20%

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Value_added_tax

 

[LeeDevelopment]

Ho hum, wages will be frozen for a further two years (they've already been frozen for the past five!!!). I will have to have yet another medical assesment to prove I'm profoundly deaf and that my hearing will never come back and thus keep my DLA payments.

Everything else I'm not too bothered about, yet!

 

[IDB1]

Thought the change from that hideous form to medical assessment was a positive change for DLA..

 

[LeeDevelopment]

Thought the change from that hideous form to medical assessment was a positive change for DLA..

Oh it is, nine times out of ten your DLA application will be rejected, you then take them to a tribunal and it's worked out from there, this is to weed people out. The medical assessment is great, yet it gets tiresome having to do it time and time again when they already have all my information in front of them from previous medical assessments!

 

[IDB1]

Thought the change from that hideous form to medical assessment was a positive change for DLA..

Oh it is, nine times out of ten your DLA application will be rejected, you then take them to a tribunal and it's worked out from there, this is to weed people out. The medical assessment is great, yet it gets tiresome having to do it time and time again when they already have all my information in front of them from previous medical assessments!

I bet it is. . is it annual?? My Incapacity assessment started annually but it's every 3 years now which isn't so bad.

 

[LeeDevelopment]

I bet it is. . is it annual?? My Incapacity assessment started annually but it's every 3 years now which isn't so bad.

I'm getting DLA indefinitely, it's all sorted now as my hearing will never return. I'm prepared to get the RNID in if they get arsey with it though.