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Election 2024

Discussion in 'The Premier League' started by brb, Jan 18, 2024.

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How are Labour doing after their first month in charge?

  1. Excellent, Keir is my hero

    47.1%
  2. Ok ish

    11.8%
  3. It's been like a month of Sucky on weed

    23.5%
  4. BobbyD for Prime Minister

    11.8%
  5. Love not Hate

    5.9%
  6. Duggie wants his Winter Fuel Allowance back

    47.1%
  7. brb is **** at polls

    23.5%
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  1. brb

    brb CR250

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    So far I only see one term, we knew there'd fook it up. <whistle>
     
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  2. brb

    brb CR250

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    Don't care if the Ruskies bought it legally or not, go kick the front door off and change the locks....or just change the locks <laugh> all this brutality lately has got me wanting to kick doors off lol - what the Ruskies going to do about it!
     
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  3. Solid Air 2

    Solid Air 2 Well-Known Member

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    there are tens of thousands terraced houses sitting empty just need more homes under the hammer types to renovate them or give LA's and or HA's to compulsory purchase them for a pittance in cerain circumstances .
     
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    Pensioners in general have never had it so good. Future generations won’t do as well, since final salary workplace schemes are becoming a thing of the past. Meanwhile, I have to wait until I’m 67 to get my state pension (thanks David Cameron).
     
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  5. brb

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    It’s always the poor, the sick, and the vulnerable who have to pay, and if you end up needing social care, chances are you’ll have to pay for that, but that's ok because these oldies have never had it so good, so anything they have Starmer will take away from them, first their cold weather payments, then their prescriptions, oh they own a home we'll stick more tax on that to, despite needing it to pay for your social care.

    While we'll talk the talk on what should be done against the rich and companies that exploit the system, but in reality do fook all once we are in, because pensioners are the piss easy target. <laugh>
     
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  6. PINKIE

    PINKIE Wurzel Gummidge

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    Non Dom, Private school tax breaks and closing other loopholes is a start. Like I said, there's around £7bn extra per year there.

    The rich certainly think that Labour are coming after them, because they are shifting their wealth offshore.

    https://www.theguardian.com/busines...x-clampdown-undercover-investigation-suggests
     
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  7. brb

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    So we are going to end up poorer all round then if the money is being moved out of our economy, which you've also been told in the past and denied would happen. The £7bn might be there, but let me know when Starmer has actually got it, and it's not just a magic number....unlike the pensioners.
     
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    Sorry, I'm forgetting myself, I must give Starmer time.....


    To see how much more he can steal from @duggie2000 <laugh>
     
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  9. Solid Air 2

    Solid Air 2 Well-Known Member

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    he hasn't "stolen" anything from Duggie rather just decided to stop giving him a birthday present :bandit:
     
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  10. brb

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    <laugh>
     
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  11. PINKIE

    PINKIE Wurzel Gummidge

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    Lol what do you want, Labour to go after the rich or not? A minute ago you were saying they should go after the big targets and now you're complaining about it <laugh>

    Anyway, this is their personal wealth that they are trying to move offshore, not moving investment out of the country which is always the threat when politicians say the rich should pay their fair share.
     
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  12. PINKIE

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    Duggie gonna have to cut back on the Dom Perignon this year after Keir's nicked his winter fuel allowance :bandit:
     
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  13. brb

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    Anyway I thought Keir said he's going after tax dodgers, has he actually caught anyone yet lol. That all seems to have gone deathly silent.
     
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  14. PINKIE

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    Ending the Non Dom status and carried interest loophole is part of that. The changes will be systemic, rather than going after particular individuals. I don't think HMRC has got enough staff to chase down individual wealth hoarders, although they seem to do a good job of punishing the little guy if he files his tax return late. Although the serious fraud office could and should be enacted better to deal with serious defrauding of the exchequer.

    Anyway, this was from Labour's manifesto

    The gap between the amount of tax owed and what the government collects rose to a staggering £36 billion in 2021/22 – an increase of £5 billion from the year before. The number of civil investigations opened into offshore, corporate and wealthy tax fraud opened by HM Revenue & Customs’ (HMRC) has fallen by more than half in five years.

    The head of the National Audit Office has recently said that there is £6 billion a year that could be recovered through a concerted effort on tax avoidance.
     
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    And this is how they plan to do it

    Labour’s invest-to-save plan will see up to £855 million of additional funding will go to HMRC each year to boost tax income by:

    • Bolstering the number of compliance officers working out of the tax office by up to 5,000 to increase the number of investigations, tackle fraud and ensure tax owed is collected.
    • Investing in digitisation of the tax office to improve compliance rates and customer services, and free up resources to focus on more complex cases.
    • Working with businesses, the tax profession and digital service providers to bring a new focus to HMRC’s modernisation, including greater use of AI – learning from industry and best practice overseas to make sure its scope is ambitious, whilst having new, achievable timescales for delivery.
    • The plan outlines legal and regulatory changes that a future Labour government would consider introducing to tackle tax avoidance too, including requiring a wider range of tax schemes to be reported to HMRC under the disclosure of tax avoidance schemes regime.
     
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  16. Solid Air 2

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    you do realise this shows that the last Govt had finally got it together and pulled in a huge increase .

    Oh and your whinge at late tax returns <laugh>
     
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  17. Solid Air 2

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    hardly any tax offices still open these days so not sure where that 5000 is coming from .
     
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  18. PINKIE

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    I'm reading that as £36bn was a £5bn increase on LOST revenue from the year before.

    And I always file my tax returns on time :bandit:
     
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  19. PINKIE

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    Probs get all the boat people to do it :bandit:
     
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    I thought lefties have always said that wouldn’t happen if we go after them?
     
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