The three year bit is fine, but the appallingly incompetent and staggeringly untransparent Valuation Office Agency is very definitely how not to do things. It should just be done on market prices (ei… (View Post)

Business rates are a stupid idea - as are all turnover taxes. By far the best way to tax businesses is to tax un-reinvested profits at a fairly steep rate, and nothing else. Turnover taxes make busin… (View Post)

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)