Does Anyone Really Give A Monkey's About The Budget?

[sp1814]

Serious question. Do you study details of the budget?

I myself vaguely look at some of the headline figures, but really - does it make any material difference to your day to day lives?

[Gromit]

Yep. I do.

An attack on the Self Employed is shameful.
They don't have anyone to top up their pensions (at the tax payers expense.) p, unlike Corporate and local Authority employees.
Many workers have been forced onto self employed Contracts, against their netter wishes, and now to the Tories (the Party for business, and self enterprise) are punishing them.
Curse on all their houses.

[anneasquith]

Curse on all their houses, and a bugged TV.!!!!!

[Gromit]

Anna
I am the above, and miffed, but my TV goes goes through a VPN :-)

[jno]

breaking of manifesto promises to the self-employed is a poor show (imagine the righteous fury if a Labour chancellor did it); but the only things that affect me personally are my pension is going up a little and my tax-free dividend allowance going down a lot.

[mikey4444]

In the 2015 Tory Party Manifesto, it was promised that NICs wouldn't be increased :::::

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-39208859

And yet, in yesterdays Budget, NICs for self-employed people DID go up. So, was a pre-Election promise broken or not ?

[Samjenko]

On a slight tangent. The last clown (Osborne) is earning £650,000pa for a 4 day w̶e̶e̶k̶ month.

[Samjenko]

^Meant to add. Nice work if you can get it.

Perhaps Trump could drain our swamp when he's finished with the Washington crooks.

[youngmafbog]

For once I agree with Gromit. It was shameful he made a rather pointless attack on the self employed. Self employed to not have the same benefits as employed and in most cases are taking a massive risk where failure will bring ruination to their family. But then what wold someone like Hammond know about that?

I think the shame is also on May, she must have known but allowed it to go ahead despite it breaking an election promise.

I for one hope the backbenchers flex their muscle, just a pity Corbyn missed an open goal in his after budget speech. That too is shameful, an opposition should be holding the Government to account not just ranting at them.

[Maydup]

The budgets are often wash over us as individuals, but its a bit different if you're running a business. national Living wages, pensions contributions, employers NI etc

[murraymints]

only stuff like fuel prices ..petrol..interest me...we don't smoke or buy spirits so they can double that for all I care....but people who do will continue to buy no matter what happens...

[mikey4444]

YMB....I think that if enough Tory back-benchers kick up a fuss, we may see a U-turn over the attack of the self employed.

[lindapalmara]

At least we have a Chancellor who knows about monitory matters instead of an old Etonian wannabe PM who slaps taxes on pasties!

[murraymints]

if they have broken a manifesto promise then that is bad form and rightly so there should be a kerfuffle

[ToraToraTora]

"Does Anyone Really Give A Monkey's About The Budget?" - you are quite right sp most people only looks at fags, booze and petrol!

[mikey4444]

And NICs TTT !

[hereIam]

It affected me last year, I am now no longer a UK taxpayer !

[Peter Pedant]

// Many workers have been forced onto self employed Contracts, against their netter wishes,//

examples please - the law is pretty strict on this ( on the side of the employee) - Ready Mix concrete case I think a document labelled this is not an employment contract was found to be - - an employment contract

the self employed pay 2% of the total tax take ( mainly income and corporation tax and VAT ) - that is they dont pay 2% tax on their taking but if the total tax take is £ 100 bn ( it isnt it is more like half a trill ) the the self employed share is 2 bn and 98 comes from elsewhere

pensions - they get tax relief on conts as the employed do.

[Peter Pedant]

// It affected me last year, I am now no longer a UK taxpayer !//

and where do we pay tax and at what rate ?

( mine is 25% which is what the govt aim at with all their compllicated tax rules )