Labour to "TAX " bank transactions....

[thatone1967]

Nice.
http://news.scotsman.com/politics/Analysis-Transac...

Basicly they want to us to pay tax every time we write a cheque / make a payment...

The guy is totally mental.

[Marf]

thatone1967 said:

Nice.
http://news.scotsman.com/politics/Analysis-Transac...

Basicly they want to us to pay tax every time we write a cheque / make a payment...

The guy is totally mental.

Don't you see? By using a bank, you are a banker, and anything you want to do to a banker in this political climate is ok, innit.

[thatone1967]

Marf said:

thatone1967 said:

Nice.
http://news.scotsman.com/politics/Analysis-Transac...

Basicly they want to us to pay tax every time we write a cheque / make a payment...

The guy is totally mental.

Don't you see? By using a bank, you are a banker, and anything you want to do to a banker in this political climate is ok, innit.

Excellent..when is my bonus paid?

[Marf]

thatone1967 said:

Marf said:

thatone1967 said:

Nice.
http://news.scotsman.com/politics/Analysis-Transac...

Basicly they want to us to pay tax every time we write a cheque / make a payment...

The guy is totally mental.

Don't you see? By using a bank, you are a banker, and anything you want to do to a banker in this political climate is ok, innit.

Excellent..when is my bonus paid?

Its not, they've decided contract law is null and void. Court of public opinion, dontchaknow.

[RichardD]

thatone1967 said:

...Excellent..when is my bonus paid?

It will be in shares

In UK PLC

Unfortunately due to being hugely in debt UK PLC requires you to help bail it out

[Marf]

RichardD said:

thatone1967 said:

...Excellent..when is my bonus paid?

It will be in shares

In UK PLC

Unfortunately due to being hugely in debt UK PLC requires you to help bail it out

♫ Its the ciiiiirrrcle of debt ♫

[Alex]

Gordon's answer to everything is a new tax.

[chris watton]

Already in place in Italy - and we always told Italians we had no bank charges at all,in the UK, and they never believed us!

[fastfreddy]

I think you'll find this means inter-bank transfers, not the likes of you and me. Actually, it's not a completely mad idea at all.

[thatone1967]

fastfreddy said:

I think you'll find this means inter-bank transfers, not the likes of you and me. Actually, it's not a completely mad idea at all.

and you think that the banks will just swallow this from their profits? I think not...

[thatone1967]

just got this from a friend that works for a major Bank...


"In theory someone (banks) will have to pay a small 0.1% or 0.01% tax on each and every transaction. Ultimately the Government have to think through who would pay in the end"

[AshVX220]

Firstly, the government shouldn't have used our money to bail the banks out in the first place.

But, as they have, they should have made it clear from the outset, exactly how and when that money would be paid back.

The sooner these idiots are voted out the better, unfortunately, they'll only be replaced by other idiots, but wearing blue ties.

[MikeCR]

These guys are just jokers! we have already paid billions to help feed the greedy fat cat muppets now they tax us further to pay it back for them!? WTF how does that work

[AndrewW-G]

This is the same daft proposal that the US have already laughed at.

Yet more quality leadership from comrade winky

[ShadownINja]

This one's for you, Gordon the Gambler.



Nothing further need be written.

[fido]

MikeCR said:

These guys are just jokers! we have already paid billions to help feed the greedy fat cat muppets now they tax us further to pay it back for them!? WTF how does that work

Well i think the proposal is to tax the transactions that are made by the organisations run by the greedy fats cats, in which case the greedy fat cats will just relocate themselves (and the organisation) to somewhere without the tax regime thus causing further loss of tax revenues and a few jobs in the process.

Edited by fido on Tuesday 17th November 17:26

[thinfourth2]

fastfreddy said:

I think you'll find this means inter-bank transfers, not the likes of you and me. Actually, it's not a completely mad idea at all.

Yeah right

It will be sold as a tax to get those fat cat bds who have brought the country to this horrible crisis.

In reality it will be on every single transfer of money from one place to another

Think of it as an extra form of VAT

[glazbagun]

Strikes me as a sensible idea, but it'll be rendered completely useless if it's not adopted by all large banking countries, surely?

[tinman0]

thatone1967 said:

Nice.
http://news.scotsman.com/politics/Analysis-Transac...

Basicly they want to us to pay tax every time we write a cheque / make a payment...

The guy is totally mental.

Cmon, he went to the summit, proposed that idea, and got shot immediately by the rest of world.

The Ruskies derided it as "another Gordon Brown tax", the French said "don't be stupid", the Germans declined the offer, the Canadians publicly stated that they wanted low taxation - not higher, and the US thought it was such a stupid idea that they sent a Federal Reserve janitor to say it was a daft and unworkable idea because no other high ranking official could even be bothered to comment.

Edited by tinman0 on Tuesday 17th November 18:25

[thinfourth2]

tinman0 said:

thatone1967 said:

Nice.
http://news.scotsman.com/politics/Analysis-Transac...

Basicly they want to us to pay tax every time we write a cheque / make a payment...

The guy is totally mental.

Cmon, he went to the summit, proposed that idea, and got shot immediately by the rest of world.

The Ruskies derided it as "another Gordon Brown tax", the French said "don't be stupid", the Germans declined the offer, the Canadians publicly stated that they wanted low taxation - not higher, and the US thought it was such a stupid idea that they sent a Federal Reserve janitor to say it was a daft and unworkable idea because no other high ranking official could even be bothered to comment.

Edited by tinman0 on Tuesday 17th November 18:25

So we can be 100% certain it will happen before the election