Good news for us Caravan luggers totally the reverse of what we thought . Fuel Duty Frozen yet again. Just a case of getting the petroleum companys to freeze their prices .or reduce them .
Sir Roger
Sir Roger
SirRogerFFS said:Good news for us Caravan luggers totally the reverse of what we thought . Fuel Duty Frozen yet again. Just a case of getting the petroleum companys to freeze their prices .
Sir Roger
PHOENIXFLIER said:Not so good for us in the "Gig" economy!
camel said:I don't think the Conservatives have done themselves any favours with the rise in NIC for the self-employed, if I was still running my own little one man band business I would just pass it on to the customer,
WoodlandsCamper said:camel said:I don't think the Conservatives have done themselves any favours with the rise in NIC for the self-employed, if I was still running my own little one man band business I would just pass it on to the customer,
Reading up on it self-employed pay 9% where employed pay 12% (in the same NI class) so they are slowly equalizing it and at the same time removing an odd-ball NI class that self employed also pay. Sounds fair to me. At one time I was self employed for 3 years.
ProfJohnL said:I am neither condoning or condemning the change to NI for the self employed.
The fact is that no party, politician or prime minister can make such sweeping statement such as "No Tax Increase" in an election manifesto and be held to it.
There is no such thing as fiscal stability, the state of the economy (domestic, national or international) is in constant flux and as a consequence you cannot make a definitive statement now, about how that economy will look in 6 to 9 months time. You can budget which is a plan, but invariably something unforeseen comes along and you have to change the budget.
I believe Mr Cameron was pretty certain the Brexit vote would be to 'remain', and his planning would have been based with that in mind. It would have had the advantage of the fiscal relationship with particularly Europe being fundamentally unchanged. This could have given him some greater confidence when he made the "no increase" statement.
When the vote narrowly went to Leave; this I suspect was a situation Mr Cameron had not fully prepared for, and also being against his stated preference, made his role as PM untenable, precipitating his resignation.
Until the leave vote had actually occurred, I honestly don't think anybody had really understood the complexity of how to actually leave the EU. I think that was demonstrated when the leading leave politicians all suddenly backed away from taking on the task of negotiating the UKs divorce.
The referendum outcome is going to have consequences for all of us. The landscape has changed dramatically and it's bound to mean fiscular promises made before Brexit are all up for debate and change.