Dawson Park Boy Posted January 27, 2021 Share Posted January 27, 2021 17 minutes ago, SandyCromarty said: Not if you're on PAYE as the vast majority of the working population are, surely if you are a working adult you know that? Paying into a pension for example can help but being taxed at salary source doesn't leave much room for tax relief. Yes PAYE is a great system. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baxter Parp Posted January 27, 2021 Share Posted January 27, 2021 I’m not sure if doubling under 65’s NI contributions so boomers can get an extra £100 a week on their state pension would go down too well.Bit of a reductive view of taxation at a time when the top earners are amassing wealth at a record rate. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baxter Parp Posted January 27, 2021 Share Posted January 27, 2021 Yes, I know what you mean. Im just straightforward self- employed, no offshore trusts, etc. However, it’s easy to talk about these things but harder to legislate. Labour and Conservative have tried but it’s not as easy as you make out and I wonder if it’s maybe overdone? There has been no serious attempt to reform the tax code since the eighties. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dawson Park Boy Posted January 27, 2021 Share Posted January 27, 2021 1 hour ago, Baxter Parp said: 2 hours ago, Dawson Park Boy said: Yes, I know what you mean. Im just straightforward self- employed, no offshore trusts, etc. However, it’s easy to talk about these things but harder to legislate. Labour and Conservative have tried but it’s not as easy as you make out and I wonder if it’s maybe overdone? There has been no serious attempt to reform the tax code since the eighties. Yep. One of the biggest abuses was highlighted by the Rangers case where they were bypassing the PAYE system and paying their players by means of payments to offshore trusts and the players taking money back and calling them loans. I don’t think this was just Rangers. I think other clubs were doing the same. It took HMRC god knows how many appeals to win the case but thankfully, they won. Just shows how rotten football is at the top level! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baxter Parp Posted January 27, 2021 Share Posted January 27, 2021 https://www.thenational.scot/news/19043910.scottish-independence-tories-lose-holyrood-vote-indyref2/?ref=twtrec Scottish independence: Tories lose Holyrood vote on indyref2 MSPs have rejected a Tory motion calling for indyref2 to be scrapped. Instead, an SNP amendment stating "there can be no justification whatsoever to deny people in Scotland their democratic rights" if there is a pro-independence majority after May's Holyrood election passed by 65 votes to 56. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ICTJohnboy Posted January 27, 2021 Share Posted January 27, 2021 How much of an increase in support for Indy will result from BJ's presidential style visit tomorrow? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Lambies Doos Posted January 27, 2021 Share Posted January 27, 2021 How much of an increase in support for Indy will result from BJ's presidential style visit tomorrow?Unnecessary journey imo 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonS Posted January 27, 2021 Share Posted January 27, 2021 33 minutes ago, ICTJohnboy said: How much of an increase in support for Indy will result from BJ's presidential style visit tomorrow? I think most Scots will think it's a pretty inappropriate thing for the PM to do at this time. I wonder how many staff he's bringing up with him, from an area with very high levels of coronavirus. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeartsOfficialMoaner Posted January 27, 2021 Share Posted January 27, 2021 32 minutes ago, John Lambies Doos said: 1 hour ago, ICTJohnboy said: How much of an increase in support for Indy will result from BJ's presidential style visit tomorrow? Unnecessary journey imo It's stupid. IMO. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFTD Posted January 28, 2021 Share Posted January 28, 2021 6 hours ago, GordonS said: I think most Scots will think it's a pretty inappropriate thing for the PM to do at this time. I wonder how many staff he's bringing up with him, from an area with very high levels of coronavirus. With tragicomic inevitability, there's bound to be a Covid outbreak at one of the places he visits. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
O'Kelly Isley III Posted January 28, 2021 Share Posted January 28, 2021 How much of an increase in support for Indy will result from BJ's presidential style visit tomorrow?I've just been listening to Adam Fleming on BBC Breakfast outlining the message Johnson will bring. It's all about British this and British that, as if the Scottish electorate is mendicant supplicants who make no contribution to the British Exchequer. This really is desperate, juvenile stuff and rather than ignoring it, the Scottish Government should be vigorously debunking it. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elric Posted January 28, 2021 Share Posted January 28, 2021 (edited) Can't see it happening as the people he meets will probably be hand chosen but would love to see some give it to him with both barrels and tell him what an incompetent F*ckwit he is. Pity he has not published his schedule. Edited January 28, 2021 by Elric addition 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Academically Deficient Posted January 28, 2021 Share Posted January 28, 2021 I enjoy the arguments of Labour Unionists. This guy joined Labour because he hated the Tories' economic policies. Now he thinks we should be subjected to them forever because....well something to do with WW2 , flags and er, reasons. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Lambies Doos Posted January 28, 2021 Share Posted January 28, 2021 See when the referendum arrives, can someone please gag Jim Sillers. He must have added at least 2% to the No vote based in his 'Day of Reckoning' speech. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonS Posted January 28, 2021 Share Posted January 28, 2021 8 hours ago, BFTD said: With tragicomic inevitability, there's bound to be a Covid outbreak at one of the places he visits. At least he's already had it so the chances of him killing someone are greatly reduced. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted January 28, 2021 Share Posted January 28, 2021 Essential photo op imo. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Highland Capital Posted January 28, 2021 Share Posted January 28, 2021 18 hours ago, GordonS said: I think most Scots will think it's a pretty inappropriate thing for the PM to do at this time. I wonder how many staff he's bringing up with him, from an area with very high levels of coronavirus. Michael Gove on TV earlier saying how he's visiting test centres and the like. I wonder if he'd be having an essential visit to these centres if polling showed a lead for No... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SandyCromarty Posted January 29, 2021 Share Posted January 29, 2021 20 hours ago, John Lambies Doos said: See when the referendum arrives, can someone please gag Jim Sillers. He must have added at least 2% to the No vote based in his 'Day of Reckoning' speech. Jim who????????????????????????????? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Steele Posted January 29, 2021 Share Posted January 29, 2021 Well, I'm beginning to think that celebrity endorsed "don't leave, we love you" might not happen this time. Time to cast Scotland adrift, says Captain Corelli author Louis de Bernières 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stellaboz Posted January 29, 2021 Share Posted January 29, 2021 That's exactly the sort of attitude that gets to those of us with some self respect. It's not up to anyone to "cast Scotland adrift". Fucking stuck up c**t. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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