Or realised that others don't always share their sense of humour, and it's possible to laugh at a joke without having to dissect the subject matter. The views expressed in my posts are not necessarily.
apparently there are people prepared to pay actual money to watch coldplay in hull. i know, i couldn't believe it either, but it takes all kinds and people like different things.
Old Clarkson had a tax dodge, hard ****ing luck. The views expressed in my posts are not necessarily mine.
This quote from a well known celebrity and boating expert outlines the reality of modern farmers: If you see a lovely field with a family having a picnic, and there’s a nice pond in it, you fill in the pond with concrete, you plough the family into the field, you blow up the tree, and use the leaves to make a dress for your wife who’s also your brother. You have big sheds, but nobody’s allowed in, and inside these big sheds are twenty-foot high chickens. Because of all the chemicals you put in them. And these chickens are scared. They don’t know why they’re so big. They go “oh why am I so massive?” And they’re looking down on all the other little chickens, and they think they’re in an aeroplane because all the other chickens are so small… And yet some people believe farmers should be given extra money when they die. You couldn't make it up.
Eh? Nobody is giving farmers extra money when they die! I've gone back and forth on this. That's the value (or curse) of listening to both LBC and Talk Radio I guess. Anyway, wasn't (isn't) the simple answer to allow farms to pass IHT free within the existing family generations, but tax them like anything else when they move outside of the existing family generations eg. to Clarksons, Dysons, etc etc. including IHT when they as 'newcomers' (speculators) want to pass them on. Generational farmers remain unaffected, newcomers know exactly what they are signing up for and can't sign up just to exploit tax advantages.
The aim is right - to reduce generational wealth, increase tax income to the treasury and to supposedly open up the industry to newcomers. But all it will do, as with the tax increases on small landlords started by Osborne, is push the industry into the hands of corporations and large companies, and out the hands of individuals, families and small business owners.
I don't think anyone should pay inheritance tax. The thing with farmers is that they are asset rich cash poor, so yes when they die they will now pay a smaller percentage of tax than the general public and have a larger amount tax free, but the only way they can find the cash the tax man demands is to sell some of that asset. The claim that this is to stop wealthy people buying agricultural land to avoid tax won't work because it's still better than having cash when you die. Then there is the claim that the money is needed to pay the NHS and schools but the same people who tell you that go on to say that only 500 farms will be affected and it will only bring in a small amount of money. I will reaffirm that I don't think anyone should pay inheritance tax.
Lots of our fighter jets flying around after Ukraine’s air strike So a conspiracy theory mate just told me get your helmets on
