Having shafted the self-employed by shutting us down over what is an unpleasant, but not especially virulent respiratory disease, Sunak is going to do what we expected – hit us with tax rises.
- Chancellor Rishi Sunak will deliver his eagerly-awaited Budget on Wednesday
- Mr Sunak looking to freeze the UK’s minimum income tax threshold at £12,500
- Mr Sunak also looking at freezing higher rate income tax threshold at £50,000
- Chancellor wants to ‘level up playing field’ between online and high street firms
- Tax on online deliveries said to be in the works and could be set out next month
- Mr Sunak warned today Covid crisis has had an ‘enormous toll’ on UK finances
Remind me, this is a Conservative government, yes? I am beginning to think that we might just as well have had Corbyn victory in December 2019, for all the difference it would have made.
Reports overnight suggested Mr Sunak could soon launch a tax raid on online businesses – including a green tax on deliveries – as part of plans to replenish the country’s coffers in the wake of the Covid pandemic.
The Chancellor is apparently looking to ‘level up the playing field’ between online and high street businesses. A green deliveries levy on online retailers is one route Mr Sunak could take, according to the Sunday Telegraph.
See what I mean? Those naughty online retailers doing business and depriving the High Street. Never mind that the High Street is over burdened with tax. If you want to level the playing field – which isn’t your job anyway – then relieve the local shops of their excessive tax burden. But, of course, politicians never do anything so radical as reducing tax.
But it gets worse.
He is also eyeing tax increases for the self-employed, along with raising an extra £6billion from income tax by 2025 with some clever threshold tactics, according to The Sunday Times.
Great. The backbone of the economy is the army of small businesses and self-employed tradesmen. The very people this government has actively damaged through the last year with its insane lock-downs. I’ve barely worked since last March. Oh, sure, they have paid me some money via the self-employed help scheme, but it is less than I would have earned and all along, I knew that they would be looking to take it back again and here we are.
I am fortunate in that when things open up, we have a queue of clients waiting to get back on the bike and trained and the bit of pension I have coming in has been just enough to keep the household bills paid. Without that, I’d have been struggling. But there are plenty who will be struggling to get work that has gone. And this thief is going to steal even more from them.
Let me make it clear. I will never vote for the Conservative party as long as I live. The same goes for Labour and the Limp Dums.
“I will never vote for the Conservative party as long as I live. The same goes for Labour and the Limp Dums”
+1
Yep hard to know its a Conservative government. In my opinion its far too socialist by half.
T’was definitely on the cards and I sincerely hope that all those who can will earn just enough on paper to miss whatever thresholds they dream up.
That’s my plan. I will just get more creative when it comes to tax avoidance.
Ah yes, tax avoidance. I remember that, before the bastards made me work inside IR35. Now I get to pay tax at source but I still have to provide my own phone, internet, power, and but for lockdown my own transport costs too. Yes I know I can reclaim relief in my tax return but THE BASTARDS HAVE ALREADY HAD IT AND I HAVE TO CLAIM IT BACK!!!!!! Sorry about the shouting but it makes my blood boil……
Fortunately, my line of work means that IR35 doesn’t apply. I am thankful for small mercies.
There isn’t any one to vote for is there? The problem seems to be that all the worthwhile people have better things to do than be in government.
That is the root of the problem, right there. Decent, honest people don’t want to make a career out of bossing other people around.
I guess if we’d had Commie Corbyn in charge, everything would have been nationalised by now – would have been the perfect excuse.
Welsh elections coming up. I will be voting for the Abolish the Welsh Assembly party.
Personally been struggling a bit for a while with the finances as well. Factory production tanked, which meant fewer shifts, so income dived by 40%. And now they want to tax us more. Well good luck with that, jokes on you Uncle Rishi, I’m not expecting my income to return to Before Covid levels for at least another 3 years thanks to the godawful state of the aviation industry…
As an aside, is the Cloudfare software making everyone do the picture thing each time they visit the site or is it just because I’ve escaped to Eastern Europe for a while and visiting from different restaurant WiFi each time. (Restaurants et Al still open here – not everyone is as crazy as the British government)
What picture thing?
The usual captcha thing.
Here are 9 images, which ones contain a boat/bicycle/car
Oh. Well, I had no idea. Must be a Cloudflare thing.
Okay, sussed it. Yes, it’s because you are in Eastern Europe, you get a challenge. When you are back in the UK, then that will stop.
I’ll just have to tolerate it for the next few weeks then.
I’ll console myself by going to the pub/bar/restaurants…
🙂
What I wrote earlier:
“Conservative” Osborne, Hammond, Javid, Sunak hate self-employed
As for Boris – he’s pandering to Blair on vaccine passports / ID Cards when even Blunkett says No
Green Tax on Deliveries? FO again Sunak. What next – Green Tax for driving to supermarket/shop to buy & bring home your ‘delivery’?
Mr Sunak, How about closing some Gov Depts and Quangos: DfID, DCMS, ECHR, DEFRA, PHE, Gift-Aid, Matching Donations…. That’s ~£30Bn+ saved which is more than the tax rise extortion/punishments
Osborne should have done so in 2010, now you have another golden opportunity. Be Brave, do something positive
Even without the so-called benefit, we still do not get the benefits enjoyed by the employed, which is why we pay less. I go sick, I have to go without income. no SSP for me. No paid leave, either.
R Sunak is the twat who had to come up with an emergency budget mere days after his “regular” budget because he didn’t see the tsunami created by his own colleagues coming, whilst I was already cutting salaries in my company…
I’ve said it before, the conservative party is dead since the “nasty party” comment by the fish faced cow, and it’s only got worse since losing the election to G Brown (the worst PM ever at the time…) and having to get into bed with the Lib dumbs.
The balls they have to say that the self employed benefited from state support for a crisis they created and the implied meaning that the self employed should pay for it…
When you think that we had a young chancellor with an absolute majority who could have done a Lawson, and instead we got a suit.
My hate for the politicians, from any side, knows no bound.
This, precisely. This problem is their creation and yet we are to be punished for it.
Why do they keep wilfully ignoring the 2 most successful examples of economic growth.
Ludwig Erhard in W Germany.
Cowperthwaite in Hong Kong.
Both demonstrated that the one sure way to get an economy going again is less taxes and less onerous legislation / compliance costs.
Wrong type of economy. /sarc
“Why do they keep wilfully ignoring the 2 most successful examples of economic growth.”
And why do they ignore the many, many examples of economic growth stilted or killed by government interference?
Ludwig Erhard in W Germany.
Cowperthwaite in Hong Kong.
Made ordinary people better off, not Tory donors…..