The Budget

[panther]

I see car tax is £300 for big cars!! going up to £400 by 2008
and normal tax for older cars has cone up to £99 for 6 month £180 for 12...daylight robbery!

[entwisi]

I find it frustrating that people talk about 'Big cars' when its actually nowt to do with thesize of thecar, its about the emmisions it produces that count. Some 'big' cars are actually very friendly to the environment.

Panther, I'm missing your logic on the second statement, surely 99x2 =198 so 180 for 12 months is a £20 drop

[panther]

yeh i know but its still a rip off

[jambutty]

Now that the Budget dust has settled and the ‘experts’ have dissected Brown’s budget proposals, Brown should have free entry to the Magic Circle as the top magician.

The Budget has been a brilliant piece of sleight of hand but fortunately the ‘experts’ have seen through it.

No doubt there are a few winners but there are far more losers.

According to http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/bsp/h...calculator.stm I will be about £2 per week worse off.

Just one question – does anyone want such a devious person as a future PM?

It has been bad enough with Blair spinning away for all he’s worth but now we have the prospect of more to come with Brown.

Fortunately his time is limited, always assuming that he does become PM, but the alternative after that does nothing for me.

[Neil]

Next year, the indications are that you will be £711.91 better off.

I will believe it when I see it

[Ianto.W.]

The annual rise in my incapaciy allowance will not buy me a pint of beer, but craftily keeps me a pound over being able to claim pension credit, If the good Lord spares me and I reach my 65th birthday in December, I only hope there are no other pitfalls awaiting me. It is my dearest wish to be able to draw 1 weeks pension paid for by by a lifetime of work, and just maybe this elusive Pension Credit also as my income will reduce.
How do you budget £1.30 Mr. Brown?

[Kisser]

According to that calculator I will be £71.83 worse off Mainly due to the fuel increase.