Tax, Who makes these up?
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Pre-budget report 2009
10 December 2009
The Chancellor delivered the 2009 Pre-Budget Report yesterday (9 December). The following is a summary of the main tax points of interest:
Private Client
Landline Duty - a duty of 50p per month for each telephone land-line will be introduced in the 2010/11 tax year.
So now you are taxed for having a land line, just after BT have been spending all that money on getting you to call on the land line since you are always too busy when using the mobile. It's a joke.
10 December 2009
The Chancellor delivered the 2009 Pre-Budget Report yesterday (9 December). The following is a summary of the main tax points of interest:
Private Client
Landline Duty - a duty of 50p per month for each telephone land-line will be introduced in the 2010/11 tax year.
So now you are taxed for having a land line, just after BT have been spending all that money on getting you to call on the land line since you are always too busy when using the mobile. It's a joke.
Edited by softtop on Friday 11th December 10:00
DrTre said:
Broadband tax innit? Help roll out BB to rural communities...alledgedly...
Exactly why should the state subsidize rural communities? If you want to enjoy living in the country side fine, but I can't see why you should expect the same level of services as those that live in major conurbations. Since when to BB become a public service anyway?Can we impose a bucolic tax on people who leave in the country side?
MX-Si said:
Someone please correct me if I'm wrong but I believe this 50p 'tax' is to help BT improve the comms infrastructure of the UK. It's been lumped on us so BT can replace all the old telephone cables with nice shiny new fibre ones (I'll believe it when I see it!).
No, it's so that those of us with jobs pay for lazy f
king aholes to have free access to boradband and jizz movies.How else are they going to bribe scum to vote for them?
There's also going to be Dominos tax. Whenever you buy a nice pizza, there will be a £2 levy added so that those "less fortunate" than you get a tasty 12" Meat Feast twice a week, delivered free.
Edited by Soovy on Friday 11th December 10:08
softtop said:
Pre-budget report 2009
10 December 2009
The Chancellor delivered the 2009 Pre-Budget Report yesterday (9 December). The following is a summary of the main tax points of interest:
Private Client
Landline Duty - a duty of 50p per month for each telephone land-line will be introduced in the 2010/11 tax year.
So now you are taxed for having a land line, just after BT have been spending all that money on getting you to call on the land line since you are always too busy when using the mobile. It's a joke.
I dont have a landline 10 December 2009
The Chancellor delivered the 2009 Pre-Budget Report yesterday (9 December). The following is a summary of the main tax points of interest:
Private Client
Landline Duty - a duty of 50p per month for each telephone land-line will be introduced in the 2010/11 tax year.
So now you are taxed for having a land line, just after BT have been spending all that money on getting you to call on the land line since you are always too busy when using the mobile. It's a joke.
Edited by softtop on Friday 11th December 10:00
I use virgin fibreoptic for my interweb.Whats the betting they try and tax me anyway the s
ts.Fittster said:
Since when to BB become a public service anyway?
Effectively, since the egovernement initiatives, direct gov etc. Personally I'm not against improving network structure in the UK, it improves productivity and output (people will laugh, all I know is that I work from home more often than I used to be able to, to the benefit of my company in terms of my output) and I'm not averse to the idea of encouraging people away from cities either.
50p from me to do that? I really couldn't care less. It's really not worth the aggravation in raising my blood pressure over it, and I'm not blind to the irony in me "wasting my time" writing on this thread about it.
DrTre said:
Fittster said:
Since when to BB become a public service anyway?
Effectively, since the egovernement initiatives, direct gov etc. Personally I'm not against improving network structure in the UK, it improves productivity and output (people will laugh, all I know is that I work from home more often than I used to be able to, to the benefit of my company in terms of my output) and I'm not averse to the idea of encouraging people away from cities either.
Fittster said:
If it really improves people's productivity they would be willing to pay for it out of their own pocket.
Er...Why should they have to? If it's to the direct benefit of my company and, through company taxes/personal taxes on my salary/bonus/whatever, the state then why shouldn't there be impetus from the state to encourage uptake? Personally I think its a work of genius, 50p a month who is really going to give a st about that.
There are something like 30 million phone lines in this country. so thats about £15 million pounds a month every year from now on, Plus VAT.
This is a very very sneaky way of collecting a lot of money every month for the rest of time, 50p no one cares about it but it all adds up.
t about that.There are something like 30 million phone lines in this country. so thats about £15 million pounds a month every year from now on, Plus VAT.
This is a very very sneaky way of collecting a lot of money every month for the rest of time, 50p no one cares about it but it all adds up.
Jgtv said:
Personally I think its a work of genius, 50p a month who is really going to give a st about that.
There are something like 30 million phone lines in this country. so thats about £15 million pounds a month every year from now on, Plus VAT.
This is a very very sneaky way of collecting a lot of money every month for the rest of time, 50p no one cares about it but it all adds up.
Less genius, more bare faced ways of taking money, as the good Dr says a lot can afford it and not a big issue but it comes along with no concessions. Just greater payments each month. You try letting the government know you are knocking off 50p a month from your tax, they won't agree and the cell awaits if you rob them, funny it is not the other way round.t about that.There are something like 30 million phone lines in this country. so thats about £15 million pounds a month every year from now on, Plus VAT.
This is a very very sneaky way of collecting a lot of money every month for the rest of time, 50p no one cares about it but it all adds up.
Must admit, don't get me wrong, I'm not in favour of more tax but I can vaguely see the rationale behind it and would lean toward agreeing with it...provided it were ring fenced/spent wisely....at which point I really get depressed at my naivety...
Edited by DrTre on Friday 11th December 10:47
BigJonMcQuimm said:
So... if I stop my virgin telephone line and just take BB and TV ... I can save my 50p...
Sweet :-)
Surely virgin will unbundle their telephone to assist their customers?
Not as if people need a landline with skype and mobiles these days.
I had this idea also as I only use my landline to call America (which is approx once a month) so thought I would take the call charge on my mobile, I pay £11 per month for Virgin landline but I can't remove the phoneline from the package I have.Sweet :-)
Surely virgin will unbundle their telephone to assist their customers?
Not as if people need a landline with skype and mobiles these days.
saleen836 said:
BigJonMcQuimm said:
So... if I stop my virgin telephone line and just take BB and TV ... I can save my 50p...
Sweet :-)
Surely virgin will unbundle their telephone to assist their customers?
Not as if people need a landline with skype and mobiles these days.
I had this idea also as I only use my landline to call America (which is approx once a month) so thought I would take the call charge on my mobile, I pay £11 per month for Virgin landline but I can't remove the phoneline from the package I have.Sweet :-)
Surely virgin will unbundle their telephone to assist their customers?
Not as if people need a landline with skype and mobiles these days.
We on virgin do not use the BT Infrastructure.
We have made our choice to go with a commerical, scaleable and superior product.
Lol
It was mine. I guess coming from France, where people are serviced by a single large fibre optic pipe into the house.
I was aware about the limitations of a copper network... oh and would never give a cent willingly to BT!
Virgin could role out 100MBs - but are not permitted due to desimating competition!
It was mine. I guess coming from France, where people are serviced by a single large fibre optic pipe into the house.
I was aware about the limitations of a copper network... oh and would never give a cent willingly to BT!
Virgin could role out 100MBs - but are not permitted due to desimating competition!
Hang on a mo ... is this the same BT that was privatised all those years ago?
The same company that was held up as a shining example of the inherent efficiency of private enterprise, a beacon of hope to all those who believed the government should have no place in running public utilities.
Yet now they can't even fund the capital expenditure required to upgrade their own network.
What happened to all the money they made over the last 20 years? And why the hell is the government bailing out their incompetent management?
k
klootzak said:
Hang on a mo ... is this the same BT that was privatised all those years ago?
The same company that was held up as a shining example of the inherent efficiency of private enterprise, a beacon of hope to all those who believed the government should have no place in running public utilities.
Yet now they can't even fund the capital expenditure required to upgrade their own network.
What happened to all the money they made over the last 20 years? And why the hell is the government bailing out their incompetent management?
k
BT pensionsThe same company that was held up as a shining example of the inherent efficiency of private enterprise, a beacon of hope to all those who believed the government should have no place in running public utilities.
Yet now they can't even fund the capital expenditure required to upgrade their own network.
What happened to all the money they made over the last 20 years? And why the hell is the government bailing out their incompetent management?
k
Edited by softtop on Friday 11th December 11:38
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