Do you know when you can't sleep

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johnmc

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And you just start thinking random shit.

Well this happened to me last night. Was thinking if I earnt £500, after taxes i'd be left with say £375. So say I wanted to take this £375 and get a tv, so i'm thinking a top of the range 26" LCD maybe or a mid range 32" even, and I found one for exactly this amount then I'd hand my cash over, but 17.5% of this would be to cover VAT which is £65.

So of my £500 wage i have just given £190 in taxes.

Bastards I though to me self.

Then I fell asleep.
 
of course the simple solution is to spend that £375 on milk which you dont have to pay vat
 
By Jove! You should have been in India in '87, y'know! No time for this namby pamby introversion then, don't y'know! Beastly business we had with the Burmese - would have kept y'awake for days!
 
dannybcity said:
Simple buy a pair of childs shoes and use the laces to steal your wealthy neighbours keys through the letter box. Make a copy and just watch theirs when they are out.

I can't sleep either.
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PMSL!!
 
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I can't remember the figure, it was something daft like 70-90%, of how much tax you actually pay.

You get your wages, tax is taken off there straight away.
Then you drive home, tax paid on the fuel, and you have your road tax. It's insured, and there's a tax on insurance premiums. Go home, have tea. You've paid VAT on the food you're eating, same with the glass of wine you have. Turn the telly on, you've hopefully paid your TV Licence, which is pretty much a telly tax. So you go to bed your house, the one you had to pay stamp duty on, what's that? Oh, just basically another tax for just buying a house. Don't forget that tax on the house and contents insurance too! Ahh, time to go to sleep. What if you don't wake up? What if you pop your clogs in your sleep. Who would get the house? Well, whoever does will get a nice earner out of it, because with the house is worth a bit, then there's the lump sum they'd get from my pension, and that life insurance (that you HAD to get when you bought the house) payout would add up to quite a bit. Well over £300,000. Nice one for them. Oh, then again, with all those that puts me over the Inheritance Tax threshold. There's £120,000 off to the tax man straight away. You're dead and the tax man is still taking money off you!!!!

And you wonder why Louis Hamilton moved to Switzerland eh?
 
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