Changes to Dividend taxation

[Guvernator]

RegMolehusband said:

Well the petition is almost at 30,000 now and at that rate should reach before 24th February the 1000,000 that's required for it to be "considered" for debate in Parliament.

I've shared the link on my business Twitter and Facebook feeds. It's all I can do - I can't go on strike unfortunately . . .

That is good going but as can be seen from the response I received above, it looks like it's pretty much a done deal.

[Digga]

I can see a lot of current or prospective small business owners simply deciding to "risk off"; that the risk vs. reward of entrepreneurship does not now justify other more stable and less stressful and time-consuming ways of earning profit from their capital.

I think this is one of the most anti-entrepreneurial and anti capitalist bits of recent business legislation.

[Sonic]

Digga said:

I think this is one of the most anti-entrepreneurial and anti capitalist bits of recent business legislation.

I'd absolutely agree with that, and find it quite surprising from a conservative government... but i suppose they pretty much are NuLabia.

[Digga]

Sonic said:

Digga said:

I think this is one of the most anti-entrepreneurial and anti capitalist bits of recent business legislation.

I'd absolutely agree with that, and find it quite surprising from a conservative government... but i suppose they pretty much are NuLabia.

They're all about BIG business and BIG politics; watch all these cabinet wkers slope off into the anti-fragile world of international ephemera once their time is served. They give not a jot and it will not make the slightest difference to them, even if it does wreck a big chunk of the UK economy.

[Guvernator]

Sonic said:

I'd absolutely agree with that, and find it quite surprising from a conservative government... but i suppose they pretty much are NuLabia.

Have to agree with that, there is very little difference between the two parties on a lot of policies now. Labour will spend a bit more on social services and the Tories will try to cut back as bit, often in the wrong places. As far as taxation goes, all the publicity from both parties seems to be focused on catching all the perceived "evil little tax dodgers" accept they willingly ignore all their big business\corporation mates and instead spend all their energy trying to screw the little guy in an attempt to plug that massive deficit hole.

The thing is who decides if we as a country should overspend? I don't remember voting for any government to get out the UK plc credit card? Surely even the staunchest Labour voters can't be too happy about the massive overspend for the last decade? What was the long term plan on how we were going to pay all the debt back? If there was a referendum on whether we should be running up a huge deficit year on year, how many would vote yes? Yet here we are, getting screwed over because the powers that be couldn't balance the chequebook.