Budget 2024

[TinFoilHat]

 

[bluethrunthru]

nope, I'm just paying it and paying my staff whatever increase they deserve as the business is profitable still and it sounds like you need a new CFO to me as they're not thinking clearly about growing the business themselves.

The thing to bear in mind is all we are hearing is dissenting voices - people with an agenda or people who can just shout the loudest in which case you would assume all business will collapse with zero wage increases and even dismissals from some businesses. However experience tells us that there will be as always winners and losers. If the winners can pay better wages they can recruit and headhunt the best from those crying poverty which will assist in growth and better staff working harder means they can probably poach business from them too

 

[Manc in London]

Isnt the rise in employers N.I just a stealth tax.
You would have to be naive to think Businesses will absorb the cost ,they will pass these on to the public so we all end up paying more anyway.

How else can the Government pay for the compensation to postmasters and victims of infected blood (I think it is around £14bn) following the Tories kicking the can down the road so they could look after their benefactors and supporters?

Businesses will pass on a proportion of the costs. Most won't be in a position to pass on all costs (e.g. company does that to me then I go to a competitor, based here or in another country). If this was funded through personal tax receipts, the full cost would be covered by the likes of you and me.

 

[Manc in London]

hung out to dry ???????? entitled cunts.

A couple who are pretty much single handedly ruining the housing market in and around Colchester ask for sympathy.

I hope the Government bring in rent controls to really squeeze them. I'd hope the Government enables authorities to double council tax on second properties, triple for third properties etc..

 

[Churchlawtonblue]

nope, I'm just paying it and paying my staff whatever increase they deserve as the business is profitable still and it sounds like you need a new CFO to me as they're not thinking clearly about growing the business themselves.

Haha, OK good for you and thanks for the advice! but it has obviously passed you by that every buiness is different. One size doesn't fit all my friend.

 

[Churchlawtonblue]

excellent

That is quite funny.

 

[hammocity]

The thing to bear in mind is all we are hearing is dissenting voices - people with an agenda or people who can just shout the loudest in which case you would assume all business will collapse with zero wage increases and even dismissals from some businesses. However experience tells us that there will be as always winners and losers. If the winners can pay better wages they can recruit and headhunt the best from those crying poverty which will assist in growth and better staff working harder means they can probably poach business from them too

Ffs

 

[kaz7]

Personally, I think anyone with a genuine disability isn’t who Labour are targeting

Hope you are right , i am touchy because i have just been assessed for the 100th time and it took over a year to get the decision despite me chasing them up , i hate the power they have over me and the stress i get dealing with them

 

[Churchlawtonblue]

Ffs

It's all so simple for some, but I believe people operating in business know that things are actually much more complicated and very different in the real world.

 

[I'm With Stupid]

hung out to dry ???????? entitled cunts.

Sometimes you read a story and you have to think the journalist has deliberately gone out the find out the most egregious example to wind everyone up. But surely no-one with 60 properties will ever need to work again if they don't want to. Even if they're absolute bottom-of-the-barrel houses, they've got to be worth something like £6 million. Even after taxes, if you can't retire on that (plus their private pension), then you need to reassess your lifestyle. Perhaps not if you want to use the rent of poorer people to fund your sailing around the world dreams though. Of course all of that assumes that they actually own all 60 houses, rather than being on the hook for a huge number of mortgage payments that are being paid by their tenants.

But since they insist that they are investors, it might be worth reminding them that investment is a risk. The value of your assets can go down as well as up. It's literally in huge letters on every stock-related product out there. Their 'meticulous planning' seems to have involved putting all of their investment in an asset that they were sure would provide a particular income indefinitely. No-one would invest money in a local business and automatically expect a return on that investment that would pay for their entire retirement. Everyone would recognise that that's a risk and the business might become very successful, but might go tits up. But landlords seem to have this attitude that they are entitled to some sort of risk-free investment opportunity.