The Conservative Party

Len Rum said:
So I will answer simply and truthfully.
In principle I would support a mansion tax if introduced by the Tories ( some exemptions could be important like Granny on a state pension living in her house in London which she bought for 2s/6d in the fifties but which is now worth 2M).
I might support a 'raid on pension funds' but it depends on the details.
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But we all know whats going to happen don't we? Mansion Tax gets dropped and the raid on pensions happens.
 
Chippy_boy said:
I couldn't.

Fucking idiotic proposals. We have a pension time-bomb ticking and should be encouraging everyone to do whatever they can to save for their pensions. Doubtless you didn't even know that the maximum tax free pensions contributions for the very rich is only £10k a year anyway. Not the £40k you and I can put in. We clobber the rich left right and centre in this country already. Enough is enough.
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Ah, envying the poor again.
 
dave_blue12 said:
Oh please !

I believe you are a Financial Adviser, in which case you will know very well that there many ways for the wealthy to avoid getting clobbered.
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I am not a financial adviser. No idea where you got that from.

But anyway, regards your comment, what on earth is the point of bringing in tax changes targeting the very rich, only to see them being avoided by such people and then only fall on those less rich who were not the intended targets and who are unable to avoid them? Daft idea.

That said, unlike other forms of taxation - on income, capital gain, profits etc - taxes on property are more difficult to avoid.
 
BlueAnorak said:
Budget rule number 3 - if you want to bring in somthing slightly unpopular, float somthing totally unacceptable and ditch it at the last moment. Your voting fodder in the commons will be so happy they will vote the slightly unpopular measure through.
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Probably.

I am just interested/concerned in what the "slightly unpopular measure(s)" might be though.
 
Chippy_boy said:
I am not a financial adviser. No idea where you got that from.

But anyway, regards your comment, what on earth is the point of bringing in tax changes targeting the very rich, only to see them being avoided by such people and then only fall on those less rich who were not the intended targets and who are unable to avoid them? Daft idea.

That said, unlike other forms of taxation - on income, capital gain, profits etc - taxes on property are more difficult to avoid.
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Apologies for my mistake regarding occupation.

As for the tax system I’m afraid your pals in the Tory party are largely responsible given they are usually the Government
 
dave_blue12 said:
Apologies for my mistake regarding occupation.

As for the tax system I’m afraid your pals in the Tory party are largely responsible given they are usually the Government
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No apology needed but thank-you anyway.

And BTW, broadly speaking, I don't have a problem with the current tax system. It's the mooted changes I was objecting to.
 
Chippy_boy said:
I am not a financial adviser. No idea where you got that from.

But anyway, regards your comment, what on earth is the point of bringing in tax changes targeting the very rich, only to see them being avoided by such people and then only fall on those less rich who were not the intended targets and who are unable to avoid them? Daft idea.

That said, unlike other forms of taxation - on income, capital gain, profits etc - taxes on property are more difficult to avoid.
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Move money from castles into bouncy castles if they start taxing property - they can be moved around to evade tax lol
 
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