Coronavirus - Overall
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@pakman said in Coronavirus - Overall:
But given the size of the Tory majority I can't see the top arte of tax rising more than 5%.
When you add on Employers & Employee NI, UK tax rates are really high. I don't think there's any alternative but to raise taxes, regardless of parliamentary majority.
The tax structure is just too complicated and tax rates way too high (with the exception of Corporation tax). Start scrapping fiddly allowances and cut rates or scrap certain taxes completely.
Around a month ago entrepeneural CGT review got a big change. Think anyone making less than £1m unaffected, but the 'fat cats' on more standard CGT rates above that.
A million quid seems a lot - It will buy you an indexed-linked pension for one junior Civil servant retiring at 60...
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@Victor-Meldrew and VAT, vehicle excise duty, additional duty on tobacco, alcohol, fuel, Inheritance Tax, loss of personal allowance additional tax on your pension scheme doing well.
The system needs simplifying, giving people less incentive to evade or avoid payment. It’s not worth the hassle to avoid 35% (say) tax but 60% is a whole other ball game.
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@Victor-Meldrew said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@pakman said in Coronavirus - Overall:
But given the size of the Tory majority I can't see the top arte of tax rising more than 5%.
When you add on Employers & Employee NI, UK tax rates are really high. I don't think there's any alternative but to raise taxes, regardless of parliamentary majority.
The tax structure is just too complicated and tax rates way too high (with the exception of Corporation tax). Start scrapping fiddly allowances and cut rates or scrap certain taxes completely.
Around a month ago entrepeneural CGT review got a big change. Think anyone making less than £1m unaffected, but the 'fat cats' on more standard CGT rates above that.
A million quid seems a lot - It will buy you an indexed-linked pension for one junior Civil servant retiring at 60...
I'd guess about GBP30k a year for life.
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I wouldn't expect anything less.
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@Toddy said in Coronavirus - Overall:
How is Greece not completely fu*ked? Ton of smokers, old population, generational living arrangements, poor public health system etc. Is it purely a case of covid19 not getting a hold there yet and the worst is to come? Or is there some other reason for low infection rate?
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@Toddy said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@Toddy said in Coronavirus - Overall:
How is Greece not completely fu*ked? Ton of smokers, old population, generational living arrangements, poor public health system etc. Is it purely a case of covid19 not getting a hold there yet and the worst is to come? Or is there some other reason for low infection rate?
Olive oil.
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@dogmeat said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@Frank where'd they find the extra virgin?
a horse farm in the Waikato
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While we thought high smoking rates might have been a factor in the Italian spread, it seems smoking might actually reduce your risk of the disease!
French researchers are planning to test nicotine patches on coronavirus patients and frontline health workers after a study suggested smokers may be much less at risk of contracting the virus.
The study at a major Paris hospital suggests a substance in tobacco – possibly nicotine – may be stopping patients who smoke from catching Covid-19. Clinical trials of nicotine patches are awaiting the approval of the country’s health authorities.
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@barbarian said in Coronavirus - Overall:
While we thought high smoking rates might have been a factor in the Italian spread, it seems smoking might actually reduce your risk of the disease!
French researchers are planning to test nicotine patches on coronavirus patients and frontline health workers after a study suggested smokers may be much less at risk of contracting the virus.
The study at a major Paris hospital suggests a substance in tobacco – possibly nicotine – may be stopping patients who smoke from catching Covid-19. Clinical trials of nicotine patches are awaiting the approval of the country’s health authorities.
pffft the French think smoking cures everything
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@mariner4life said in Coronavirus - Overall:
pffft the French think smoking cures everything
And butter.
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@barbarian said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@mariner4life said in Coronavirus - Overall:
pffft the French think smoking cures everything
And butter.
in this case, they may be right
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@mariner4life said in Coronavirus - Overall:
pffft the French think smoking cures everything
Their '99 & '07 RWC Teams were notoriously heavy smokers..
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@Victor-Meldrew said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@mariner4life said in Coronavirus - Overall:
pffft the French think smoking cures everything
Their '99 & '07 RWC Teams were notoriously heavy smokers..
I saw Roger Federer having a crafty one after a curry at the Wimbledon tandoori when Tony Roche was his coach!
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@pakman said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@Victor-Meldrew said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@mariner4life said in Coronavirus - Overall:
pffft the French think smoking cures everything
Their '99 & '07 RWC Teams were notoriously heavy smokers..
I saw Roger Federer having a crafty one after a curry at the Wimbledon tandoori when Tony Roche was his coach!
Worst @jegga imitation ever.
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Karma is a bitch
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@Victor-Meldrew said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@Bones
Rid simweer BoJo his N Zild fimly.Prolly not from Inverrrrrcarrrrrgill though eh!