tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post3276394822755252426..comments2023-12-20T19:39:29.865+00:00Comments on Munguin's Republic: AMATEURS AT THE TAX OFFICE ...Munguinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16475165830302054002noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-81582025012428913862010-09-05T13:13:31.750+01:002010-09-05T13:13:31.750+01:00Independence - a HUGE bet on oil prices...not a se...Independence - a HUGE bet on oil prices...not a sensible basis for independence in my bookDean MacKinnon-Thomsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08221192592535723681noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-9715476756095461802010-09-04T23:09:33.939+01:002010-09-04T23:09:33.939+01:00Not yet he's on till one el vino might no last...Not yet he's on till one el vino might no last that long. Ed Balls was on a bigger speaker of untruths since Blair. Tax on now!<br /><br />One for Dean <br />http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1508553/North-Sea-oil-bonanza-played-down.htmlcynicalHighlanderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06034325908473006163noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-80295764601534466402010-09-04T22:35:06.738+01:002010-09-04T22:35:06.738+01:00Thanks CH.
I only just saw your comment, so clear...Thanks CH.<br /><br />I only just saw your comment, so clearly I missed Steve Nolan's piece. <br /><br />Did it make things any clearer?<br /><br />Newsnet Scotland is an excellent site.<br /><br />Thanks for reminding me about it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-90516600097799003562010-09-04T21:22:20.953+01:002010-09-04T21:22:20.953+01:00tris it wont be a tax demand it will be a request ...tris it wont be a tax demand it will be a request that you have underpaid so one can question their judgement. I am listening to 5live and a I? 18 or 19 clause comes into play so this could well backfire big time if it ends up costing the revenue. Steve Nolan is talking about it at 10pm. Pity we are not grown up enough to have a similar radio in Scotland.<br /><br />As an aside the real news in Scotland can be found here. http://newsnetscotland.com/cynicalHighlanderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06034325908473006163noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-51109449777909294802010-09-04T21:07:44.659+01:002010-09-04T21:07:44.659+01:00QM: It's an interesting concept this flat rate...QM: It's an interesting concept this flat rate thing. I should read more about it. I know it sounds terribly unfair at the outset but I have a feeling that some really progressive countries do it.<br /><br />And somehow it seems to work.<br /><br />I think that, unless Mr Osborne's been pulling our legs there are going to be some BIG reductions in the Civil Service. I suppose that we should brace ourselves for even more inefficiency; even longer waiting on the phone being told that our call is important to them and even more errors in whatever they send us...<br /><br /><br />Still, what governments say and what they do aren't always the same thing.<br /><br />How's your weekend at home going....?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-40467143312729922010-09-04T21:02:28.075+01:002010-09-04T21:02:28.075+01:00CH: If they come after me for £1500 in a year ther...CH: If they come after me for £1500 in a year there will be a personal revolution going on. I'm not sure how it will manifest itself though... seeing as we are pretty powerless over the PAYE system. I'll probably just moan a lot on here.... and cry....<br /><br />If, however, something is not done about reducing the tv licence, I will take the action of instructing my bank (a part of the government) to withhold the 12th payment in the year from the BBC (another de facto part of the government).<br /><br />They will probably refuse to do it.<br /><br />Hmmm. I'm a wee bitty pathetic here I'm thinking!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-86455138892707071812010-09-04T20:31:45.327+01:002010-09-04T20:31:45.327+01:00Makes those of us who call for a flat rate tax acr...Makes those of us who call for a flat rate tax across the board, seem eminently sensible. Of course that might put a good few civil servants out of a job which is why it will never happen.Quiet_Manhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09575652127079681825noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-80846905851926515242010-09-04T20:08:07.522+01:002010-09-04T20:08:07.522+01:00HM Treasury is like a poorly made wheel which is i...HM Treasury is like a poorly made wheel which is impossible to balance no matter how many weights are added. Time to start afresh but since we are dealing with a backward system of government which won't change as it thinks its the centre of the universe. Revolution anyone.cynicalHighlanderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06034325908473006163noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-62596034070861062902010-09-04T19:12:29.156+01:002010-09-04T19:12:29.156+01:00'wither' should, of course, be either....
...'wither' should, of course, be either....<br /><br />.. and I should check before I press the send button!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-4553028299478240152010-09-04T19:10:47.395+01:002010-09-04T19:10:47.395+01:00Dean
I just watched a money expert on BBC News sa...Dean<br /><br />I just watched a money expert on BBC News saying that the system dates back to 1946 and is totally inadequate for today's needs.<br /><br /><br />He said that had had become unnecessarily complicated over the last 15 years (so our mate Ken was involved).<br /><br />He also said that, as the same computer system (£360 million worth of it) would be making the new calculations, there was no real reason to suspect that they would be accurate wither.<br /><br />He advised that people who thought they had paid too much, should appeal. <br /><br />One of the features of the current situation that I find hard to take is that they have made the errors, and they have made them over two years, yet they seem to want to take the money back in one tax year.<br /><br />Are there any human beings in the Treasury? Do they realise how hard pressed ordinary people are, and how difficult it will be to find an extra £1500 in 12 months?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-12757673681162870272010-09-04T17:52:41.370+01:002010-09-04T17:52:41.370+01:00Our whole approach to taxation in this country is ...Our whole approach to taxation in this country is out of touch with the needs of today.<br /><br />Not only, as you point out Tris, is the current record with data protection completely incompetent. But our problems go deeper.<br /><br />We have the longest tax code in the world, one which punishes the poorest disproportionately than the richest. Additionally how many times has the tax office made mistakes with how much people owe? And the net result of the exchequers incompetence; well under the last 13 years we saw countless repayments needed - all of which naturally punished those who could least afford it.<br /><br />Naturally the sceptical side of me suspects that these are not new problems, but ones which have been around for donkey's years.Dean MacKinnon-Thomsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08221192592535723681noreply@blogger.com