You make a sale of £1200 in your business.
£200 is VAT.
You have £1000.
You pay 25% corp tax on it.
You have £750.
You pay it to yourself as a dividend and pay 20%.
You have £600.
You spend it, and £100 of the spend was VAT.
You have something worth £500.
You die and pass that thing onto your kids, and your estate owes 40% in taxes.
Your kids have £300.
Are you seeing why it's nearly impossible to get ahead in the UK? This is why people are leaving. And it’s even worse in SNP Scotland, where higher taxes and relentless bureaucracy crush ambition further.
@RedbridgeLive Food delivery bikers on public footpaths are becoming increasingly common and are dangerously risking their lives and of the putting a big risk on the elderly and children let alone the general public
#WATCH | #PravasiBharatiyaDivas2025 | Bhubaneswar, Odisha: Prerna Bhardwaj, Mayor of Gerrards Cross in England, says, "I found it really inspirational to listen to all the women stories of how they made it as entrepreneurs and how they went by themselves to different countries and they made it really big by working hard...I think it's very inspirational. It does show that Indian women, no matter where we are, we are very resilient to change and we can make a difference to our society and also bring India to other countries..."
If Pensioners have to go without their fuel allowance then so should MPs have to go without their second home fuel allowance
Who agrees?
Keep our Pensioners warm this winter
They’ve paid in so deserve to be kept warm
Chandrayaan-3 Mission update:
In-situ scientific experiments continue .....
Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscope (LIBS) instrument onboard the Rover unambiguously confirms the presence of Sulphur (S) in the lunar surface near the south pole, through first-ever in-situ measurements.
Al, Ca, Fe, Cr, Ti, Mn, Si, and O are also detected, as expected. Search for Hydrogen (H) is underway.
LIBS instrument is developed at the Laboratory for Electro-Optics Systems (LEOS)/ISRO, Bengaluru. https://t.co/S5QGFm8sG7
https://t.co/gzUCSja1du
#Chandrayaan3 #ISRO
A multi-vehicle crash in Barking has caused traffic chaos in east London. One road is closed and there is congestion to Ilford. https://t.co/ocvprBR4EC