Giving anyone £38k a year in benefits is obscene, never mind giving that to someone earning earning £42k. Why should I, currently bringing up two kids on a fraction of that, be forking out a huge wed… (View Post)

Isn't the other option to deduct tax at source? Let's say the state pension is £15000, and the tax free allowance is £13000 (for the sake of round numbers). £2000 of the pension is thus tax… (View Post)

Isn't a fuel duty increase "next year" something chancellors have been doing for the last 20 years - just somehow next year never comes? (something to do with it being a stupid tax to … (View Post)

The problem is that the whole EV thing is rather built on sand. For a lot of users, their real cost is more than running an ICE car, but this is hidden in the tax arbitrage, with the UK taxpayer taki… (View Post)

Surely it wouldn't be beyond the whit of man to find a standardised measurement of what we think people should be able to afford to achieve a basic standard of living, and then link it to the ON… (View Post)