https://t.co/LGnbbstwCw Still waiting for pick up, no phone number to call, no info, very frustrating. No contact with the Pick Up team. really want this work but over hr outside the window a no communication.
In the 24 months since Labour came to power, we've seen;
• Employer National Insurance increased from 13.8% to 15%.
• The employer NI threshold cut from £9,100 to £5,000.
• Income Tax and National Insurance thresholds frozen until 2031.
• Capital Gains Tax increased from 10% and 20% to 18% and 24%.
• Business Asset Disposal Relief increased from 10% to 14%, then 18%.
• Investors’ Relief increased and its lifetime allowance cut from £10 million to £1 million.
• Carried interest taxation increased and moved towards the Income Tax regime.
• Dividend tax rates increased by two percentage points.
• Savings-income tax rates increased by two percentage points.
• Property-income tax rates increased by two percentage points.
• Most unused pension funds brought into the Inheritance Tax net.
• Agricultural Property Relief restricted.
• Business Property Relief restricted.
• Inheritance Tax thresholds frozen for longer.
• The non-dom regime replaced with a more extensive residence-based system.
• VAT imposed on private school fees.
• Business-rates relief removed from private schools.
• Stamp Duty increased on second homes and buy-to-let properties.
• The Furnished Holiday Lettings tax regime abolished.
• Pension salary-sacrifice benefits capped at £2,000 before National Insurance applies.
• The Cash ISA allowance cut to £12,000 for most under-65s.
• A 22% charge introduced on interest from cash held inside non-cash ISAs.
• Restrictions introduced on transfers and cash-like holdings within ISAs.
• The Energy Profits Levy increased and extended.
• Investment allowances for oil and gas producers reduced.
• A new Vaping Products Duty introduced.
• Tobacco duties increased above inflation.
• Vehicle Excise Duty increased for many new cars.
• Electric vehicles brought into the Vehicle Excise Duty system.
• A new mileage tax announced for electric and plug-in hybrid cars.
• Air Passenger Duty increased.
• Climate Change Levy rates increased.
• Plastic Packaging Tax increased.
• A new Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism introduced.
• Making Tax Digital extended to more landlords and self-employed people.
Together they represent one of the biggest transfers of wealth from households and businesses to the Treasury in decades - with no noticeable improvement in public services.
Whether you're a business owner employing staff, a parent paying school fees, a farmer planning succession, an entrepreneur building wealth or simply someone trying to save for retirement...
You keep less of what you earn.
You keep less of what you invest.
You leave less to your family.
Death by a thousand cuts is becoming tax policy.
@trussliz@Keir_Starmer Please go away. We are still reeling from your nonsense. And Labour are driving us into ditch. If you really want to serve your country, please be quiet.
@Bannatyne Customer service standards are falling everywhere but you guy take the biscuit. Robots in the chat but even when it's a person it might as well as be robot. #fraud#cancellation. It's a one month cancellation. that 's what I was sold. #rubbishcustomerservice
@RambleOn1905@afneil Do you want them always to always agree? Isn’t disagreement the point? A balance of opinions, all qualified, or at least when they agree with you, making all the arguments, refining them and then deciding together. Hardly clown like.
@rakibehsan@dipu412 “We” in this context meant the people that enjoy your writing and analysis on pressing issues, who are disappointed when you go hyperbolic. Even more disappointed with this condescending and pointless response.
@DAaronovitch@soniasodha Far right? Come on. Please can you help me understand. What is the limiting principle between right and far right and as what is its equivalent on the left. What is far left as opposed to just left?
@johnredwood It’s not a cupasoup. The payback is over 100-150 years. It’s hard for people who can only think backwards for eons and only one quarter forward to see the need for it. Wise men plant trees that they themselves will never sit under.
@manni_patel@LawtonTri The gap in funding between the NHS and other European systems is the amount paid of by those systems at the point of delivery. Money should follow the patient not the pension of the person providing the service.
@RichardBurgon You economically illiterate moron. Wealth taxes uniformly do only two things. 1) reduce the amount of tax revenue 2) demonstrate the economic illiteracy of those that call for them. The 18th century class warfare informing your economic policy doesn’t work anymore. Please stop.
@MsOregonian Sorry but your approach is how standards are destroyed. Standards aren’t there to validate our effort. We all love our children but we can’t expect them to learn the world doesn’t revolve around them if we can’t even do that ourselves.
@Ross_Greer It is a remarkable level of tone deafness. Unless they are burning their properties to the ground in protest, the sale to owner occupiers is an unqualified good.