** The tax bill I received must have come to the wrong person and address.
Yes,quite...
The curse of posting having mixed strains of weed from both Afghanistan and Thailand....
As far as I'm aware my neighbour doesn't post on here, they are however on high strength weed, the smell dissipates somewhere west of Melton.
(Door ajar)How much? I toiled and paid tax and NI from the age of 16 to 68 and never claimed a penny in benefits and don't receive anything like that for my state pension. Sick of hearing that my generation had it easy on housing too because houses were 'cheap'. I don't remember them being cheap, when I bought me first house in 1975 I was paying three times more a week for it then my workmates were paying rent for a council house, and they laughed at me and we all earned the same wages within a couple of pound.
Come on G, they might not have been cheap, but average house price in the mid 1970s was about £10-12k against a £4-5k average salary.
It's a good job mortgage rates weren't in double digit figures in the late 1970's, oh...
This.
Absolutely, all of the bastards. Only for another week though, then they're OK
It depends on what type of house they want. The average price today may well be £280K but there are plenty still available especially in Hull for well under £100K. My first place was a two up two down, with a back yard, no garden, and the 'bathroom' was a single brick building added onto the kitchen. No central heating, second hand furniture, black and white telly from Pools Corner etc etc. We didn't own a car for our first ten years of married life and no-one I knew went on a foreign holiday. It was hard, and that was the norm for the working man. I had to take on an extra job when the overtime dried up at work. We slowly did the house up bit by bit, sold it, and moved on to something a bit better, and I've done that ten times. Today people want everything straight away. I never earned £5k a year either working in the foundry at Ideal Standard when I started there in 1972, and Standard was considered as one of the best paid jobs in the city. We jumped for joy when we got a rise to £1 an hour just after the first miners strikes in the early 70's, that is £40 for a 40 hour week, less tax and NI. It was never easy. I've been in punch up's on the shop floor over overtime because we depended on it to pay our bills.
The curse of posting having mixed strains of weed from both Afghanistan and Thailand....
Relative Pittance,that deserves a frothing guffaw
Fair enough. In all honesty, many things are better, some things are worse and getting worse, such as income inequality.
Again, fair enough, but i have to use a base figure somewhere or the post would be a thesis if it factored the regional differences in.
Looks like a lot of that tax evasion is actaully small business and a good chunk of that are the types of bussiness everyone would suspect !
www.theguardian.com
Fortunately,I never mentioned 'brown people'...You did,maybe they're embedded in your head and hopefully the on duty mod will see it for what it is.
Looks like a lot of that tax evasion is actaully small business and a good chunk of that are the types of bussiness everyone would suspect !
"Ellen Milner commented: “While large businesses and wealthy individuals are often accused of not paying enough tax these figures suggest that their total share of the tax gap is not much more than a quarter of that of small businesses."
Billions lost from small retailers in tax evasion, says watchdog
National Audit Office says trail of tax debts left by small UK retailers is widespread and increasing every year
Fortunately,I never mentioned 'brown people'...You did,maybe they're embedded in your head and hopefully the on duty mod will see it for what it is.
On the other hand if you're accusing ME of racism then fill your boots as I consider it a throwaway comment nowadays.
