This is bang out of order

[STEED]

The last time I checked we were living in a democracy.

£1,000 fine for householders who refuse council tax 'snoopers' (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=412378&in_page_id=1770&ico=Homepage&icl=TabModule&icc=NEWS&ct=5)


This is wrong and is taking us away from democrasy, I am going to write to my Member of Parliment. :mad:

[goldorak]

Whats next ? Tax the amount of air we breath. :shifty:
Really scary/****ty stuff happening in the UK.
Uk = Total Control over your citiziens.

Edit : interesting thing this politically correct automatic censor program.
I'm glad we don't use these on italian forums. :)

[TteFAboB]

Bleh. How exactly are Brits ever going to get rid of this bureaucracy. Inflate, inflate, inflate, inflate, *POP*! The balloon can't expand forever, there's only so much money to be taxed.

By the way, Mr. goldorak, I see that you have posted 264 characters. That will cost you 208.5€ (0.75 per character plus 0.25 per word), plus two smilies, my-my what do you need two smileys for?! That will be 50€ each, so 100€ for the smileys. Also, it seems that you have wasted an empty paragraph. Bad idea, you'll have to pay a 150€ fine for wasting a paragraph. Finally there's an extra .50€ fee for using the edit feature.

In total: 459€. Cash please, thank you very much.

[HunterICX]

Meh, Money Money Money....

Taxes...are everywhere you cant stop it
I saw on TV about the explaination of how it works

and the outcome is that we have so much taxes on everything including...

here it comes ''TAXES OVER TAXES!!!'' :o What I hells name is that! So I pay my taxes and have to pay taxes over that?

doesnt the governement hasnt got something better to do then pissing us off with their TaXes!

[The Avon Lady]

Maybe Thatcher should come out of retirement. :D

[Winston]

I can see it now. Tom and Barbra Good hugging on the sofa in the front room when all of a sudden armed police smash down the door and push both of them to the floor while 10 yards down the street a gang of drunken youths brake in to a car while two police guard the door looking on…

“Erm, you think we should do something Bill?”
“We are doing something Jim, we’re coming down hard on society’s most reviled criminal group, tax dodgers. God I feel powerful”
“Yeah, take that criminal underworld…Doughnuts?”

[SkvyWvr]

Maybe Thatcher should come out of retirement. :D

Yes bring back the 'Iron Maiden":up:

[Captain Nemo]

Maybe Thatcher should come out of retirement. :D

I remember when good old Maggie was elected in 1979, one of the first things her government did was to lower the basic rate of income tax from 33% to 30%. Great I thought until I read on that they had increased value added tax from 7.5% to 15%. With any government in the UK what you get in one hand is taken back with the other.

Nemo

[The Avon Lady]

Time to play the Beatle's "Taxman"! :yep:

Maybe they can tax the pants off of Kylie Minogue (http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20061025/ennew_afp/afpentertainmentbritainaustraliamusicexhibitionpeo ple). :roll:

[jumpy]

Maybe I ought to order that crossbow I was looking at the other day, before the law changes so that the only sharp thing I can own is a plastic spoon :hmm:
Failing that any of these filth inspectors comes round to my place and the're gonna have to bring a tent because they'll be waiting for a goodly long time before I let these theives through the door.
I recon this governement will soon be running out of fingers to stick into pies. Only question is, what will they be 'dipping' with instead :o:-?

[SUBMAN1]

Maybe I ought to order that crossbow I was looking at the other day, before the law changes so that the only sharp thing I can own is a plastic spoon :hmm:
Failing that any of these filth inspectors comes round to my place and the're gonna have to bring a tent because they'll be waiting for a goodly long time before I let these theives through the door.
I recon this governement will soon be running out of fingers to stick into pies. Only question is, what will they be 'dipping' with instead :o:-?

Ouch! I saw kitchen knifes on the chopping block over there a little while back. THey allow you to even have a crossbow when they are complaining about that? I would never have guessed! No wonder the terrorists are after you over the US. Taking away your self protection will eventually make you the weakest and easiest to exploit target on the planet!

-S

[The Avon Lady]

Food for thought: employ all the tricks you see in Home Alone I/II/III. :p

[JSLTIGER]

Time to play the Beatle's "Taxman"! :yep:

Good song! :up:

[Yahoshua]

I seriously wonder if England will ban pointy sticks next......

[Kapitan]

Now is that £1000 fine then you dont pay the council tax or is it the fine + the tax?

Cause if its just the fine heck im cancelling my direct debit :D

Its a bit dumb though i got a penalty fare on the train cost £10 my entire journey would have come to £15.40 :D

[STEED]

If this comes law and I suspect it will, it's just another tax raiser thanks to this Labour Government putting this country in the red. :down:

[Captain Nemo]

If this comes law and I suspect it will, it's just another tax raiser thanks to this Labour Government putting this country in the red. :down:

The Conservatives are good at putting the UK in the red as well. Do you remember the "Black Wednesday" debacle in 1992 when the then Prime Minister John Major and Chancellor Norman Lamont raised interest rates during the day from 10% to 12% to 15% and authorised the spending of billions of pounds in a doomed effort to keep the pound within the range allowed by ERM. Us tax payers might even still be paying for this.

Nemo

[STEED]

The Conservatives are good at putting the UK in the red as well. Do you remember the "Black Wednesday" debacle in 1992 when the then Prime Minister John Major and Chancellor Norman Lamont raised interest rates during the day from 10% to 12% to 15% and authorised the spending of billions of pounds in a doomed effort to keep the pound within the range allowed by ERM. Us tax payers might even still be paying for this.

Nemo

When the Conservatives left office in 1997 this country was in the Black and thanks to Labour we are well in the red.

[Captain Nemo]

When the Conservatives left office in 1997 this country was in the Black and thanks to Labour we are well in the red.

You might be right Steed, but to do this the Conservatives raised VAT from 15% to 17.5% and slapped VAT on fuel bills. It was only due to the fact that there was major uproar in the UK that the Tories limited VAT on fuel bills to 5%. If they had had their way we would be paying 17.5% VAT on our gas and electric bills.

Nemo

[STEED]

The present Labour Government has hit us all with over 100 stealth taxes since 1997 and more are on the way.

[Captain Nemo]

The present Labour Government has hit us all with over 100 stealth taxes since 1997 and more are on the way.

Lets face it Steed, both Labour and Conservative are as bad as one another when it comes to tax. The only reason that indirect taxation has been used many times by both parties is because they have vowed not to increase income tax. Also they believe the public find it less painful when tax is paid without them having it taken from their pay packets.

Nemo

[STEED]

True. :yep:

The only deferents is the Conservatives had it up front and in your face and this present Labour lot try to hide it away and sooner or latter you read it in the newspaper. :huh: