Well there are several but I think Inheritance Tax is one of the worst.
A tax originally designed to prevent the landed gentry passing on vast wealth from generation to generation now hits many ordinary people who have dared to buy a house to live in.
The fact that so many of them have scrimped and saved to pay a mortgage for 25 years doesn't matter because if you happen to own a property worth more than approx £275k when you die HMG wants their share of the rest even if you've no savings or other assets.
For too long people in the regions didn't bat an eyelid about this problem because it didn't affect them anywhere near as much as those in the 'more affluent' south east but now property prices have increased so much nationally more people are waking up to the reality that HMG is going to rob you blind when you die.
no problem, i've filled your zimmer frame with lead :moon:
Stealth taxes you get taxed on nearly everything even second hand goods!
At least sex is still free maybe we even get taxed on condoms!
The country was in such a terrible state,
Parliament rose for a budget debate,
It was quite a few moments before Gordon spoke
When he said "sex will cost ten quid a poke"
Whether you're short, long, skinny or thick,
The tax will be paid on the use of your prick,
Peter Mandelson said "now Gordon, look here,
Will the tax still be paid for the boys who are queer?"
Simon Hughes for the Libs arose and looked glum,
"will I be exempt coz I only like bum?"
Gordon replied and sounded quite airy
"you'll f***ing pay double, you dirty old fairy"
Up got Dave Cameron to tremendous applause,
He grabbed Margaret Beckett, and whipped off her drawers
He straddled across her and f***ed her at will
Then shouted at Gordon "put that on your bill"
Blunkett shouted "I think I'll resign"
I haven't had pussy for quite a long time
I dream every night of a big juicy crutch
But ten quid a jump is a bit f***ing much
The debate carried on, oh what a night
Prescott was bonking every woman in sight
The whole house was screwing, the speaker was too
And in the excitement, the dumb bill got through
So now in the bedrooms of England each night
There's many a fanny closed up good and tight
They're taxing our booze and taxing our smokes
And now the bastards are taxing our pokes
If ten pounds a time is the price we must pay,
It's now with ourselves that we must play,
So to quench our frustration, we must have a wank
For the state of our country, we have Gordon to thank
If were on the subject of Council Taxes heres one that gets us lol.
Business Rates!!!! Business rates are just another tax dressed up a bit.. When we got our last revised bill I took the liberty of ringing the council to ask what we get for them... (True Honest) I said we don't get any bins emptied, we have no street lighting, we maintain our own car park etc etc etc..... what do we get for them.... she said she had no idea being honest and that they were just traditional!!
Tradition is bloody expensive lol......
Mike x
I've just read this thread and I'm now far too depressed to add my tuppence worth......
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I didn't know until recently when I had to do a photoshoot for a company promoting a campaign against it .. BUT....
Did you know there is 17.5% VAT on condoms..?????
Now THAT is bloody ridiculous..
Not as bad as inheritance tax though...
Tax the thing that I dislike is I earn , the government nick not including national insurance ect. Now I have less than I go out and buy a good bottle of Whisky with that. Government nick about in VAT and about in spirit duty. Out of the hundred pound I earn the government have got over That is just going into the economy.
Without doubt the most inequitous tax is VAT. Not the paying so much but the fact that the government uses companies as unpaid tax collectors. The collection of which also incurs them a cost for using an accountant.
I wonder what proffression thought of it?
It's not the claiming back that is the problem just the fact they have to collect it for the government for free.
Items which attract VAT were originally considered to be "luxury" items... that's why biscuits are vatable and bread isn't... If my memory serves me correctly cakes aren't vatable either hence the whole row about whether a jaffa cake was a cake or a biscuit
Ok I know its a pain in the arse having to pay so many different taxes, we all work hard and want to keep all the money we earn etc
But just imagine whqat a bloody mess we'd be in if we didnt pay any taxes?????
no health service
no welfare state
no upkeep of public transport or roads, no rubbish collection etc etc...............
zero rated doesnt mean you dont pay vat, it just means it is vatable, but currently at zero rate, this rate could be changed. An exempt item is one that vat is not chargeable.
with respect to paying tax on the wages remit back to poland is down to the polish govt policy on tax not our governments. There is no double tax treaty between the 2 countries so you have to pay the tax in both countries. eg 21% income tax here on what you earn then what you take/send back to poland you pay there tax rate there too.
A double tax treaty means you pay income tax here then if polands tax rate is higher you only pay the difference.
any other questions????????????
V.A.T. stands for if I'm not wrong value added tax ,,,every packet of biscuits I buy are broken at one end or the other ,this is the quallity we are expected to accept as normal this is a shabby country with shabby service .where is the value !!!!
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