I am not sure that I entirely agree with leg-iron on the subject of tax:
Crank up taxes on the rich, and the rich move overseas and pay no tax at all here.
Is not the purpose of the immense pressure being placed by the UK and the USA upon those smallish countries which still offer old-fashioned [...]
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Completely dispossessed
Posted in tax, tagged tax havens on 17 August, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Computer tax: the Irish method
Posted in tax, tagged Computer tax on 7 May, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Irish, once again, showing the English how ’tis done. Slashdot reports that the Irish government has unleashed its Blarney-stone-kissing word-weasel on the problem of taxing computers, and that worthy has come up with the following definition of a TV set:
…an electronic apparatus able to receive TV signals or “any software or assembly comprising such [...]
Shut her down, Clancy; she’s pumpin’ mud!
Posted in tax, tagged motoring on 30 March, 2009 | 2 Comments »
It’s not often that I disagree with Ian Parker-Joseph, but in this case, on the subject of motoring costs:
There is a limit to what people can pay, indeed what people are willing to continue to pay, and these latest figures go some way to show, that for many, this limit has already been reached.
I would [...]
Fuel duty up again?
Posted in tax, tagged fuel duty on 19 March, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Sent in by a reader, petrolprices.com reports that
In just 2 weeks fuel duty will rise again, bringing the total tax paid at the pumps to 71 pence in every pound – despite Prime Minister Gordon Brown promising not to raise fuel duty.
Knowing little about this source, I can’t say whether or not this is true. [...]
Boring old mechanics trolleys
Posted in tax, tagged spin on 17 March, 2009 | 7 Comments »
Just for once I find I can bring myself to disagree with leg-iron, if only on a technicality:
…as an actual, real scientist with certificates and a publication record to prove it, I recommend that Sir Liam Donaldson be the recipient of a fifty kilogram mass delivered at a minimum fifty metres per second in the [...]
The low price elasticity of demand in the short term
Posted in tax, tagged principle of operation on 15 March, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I am very much obliged to mummylonglegs, at And there was me thinking…, for this complete, correct and concise summary of the principle of operation of taxation:
This is how it works
1. Find something a lot of people like to do, say, breathing.
2. Fund some shister to do a serious of tests/surveys/thoughts/lies that prove how bad [...]
Chocolate-poisoning
Posted in tax on 12 March, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Grumpy Old Sod protests the forthcoming tax on chocolate:
Oh here we go, the first step in medicalising “chocolate addiction”.
My understanding was that however one chooses to describe (as ‘addiction’, ‘dependency’, or whatever) the fondness that some people have for chcocolate, there seems to be some reason to believe that many of these people might [...]
Your new driving licence has now expired
Posted in tax, tagged driving licence on 9 February, 2009 | 3 Comments »
IF there is anyone out there reading this who doesn’t already read the excellent blog of Ian Parker-Joseph (who is the leader of the Libertarian Party of the UK), AND IF that person happens to be a driver, THEN I would really recommend their consulting the link above, which contains information which may be to [...]
Young people today
Posted in tax, tagged NI on 1 January, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Devil, ranting about the compulsory old-age insurance racket which I mentioned briefly earlier.
He demands:
Isn’t anyone else tired of the government lying to them about NICs? Isn’t anyone else tired of seeing what is ostensibly their old age insurance being spunked up the fucking wall on fucking NI databases and subsidised bars for MPs? Because [...]
Another tax
Posted in tax, tagged driver health on 30 December, 2008 | 2 Comments »
David Davis, at the Libertarian Alliance, is exercised by this item from the Telegraph:
Drivers will have to declare every 10 years whether they are medically able to get behind the wheel, according to proposals… Tests, costing up to £80, will be offered to drivers to check whether they are fit to drive. Anyone who chooses [...]
