RE: 400k trade14 Feb 2024 15:54
So much interesting discussion today :) Unlike a few of the other boards I occasionally pester where they are all just fighting about how rich they are going to be when, despite the fact that a few of them need to be 20 baggers just to get some of the people their money back! (Rather sums up the IQ problem Britain has with the electorate.)
Frankly, I have often thought that perhaps voting should be weighted towards those who actually are net contributors to the national coffers - after all you don't see many companies (at least not ones which last very long) listening to non-customers at the expense of their actual clients. But I digress.
I suspect there is very much truth that has been spoken on here, and a lot that I completely disagree with (it's always great, don't you think, to hear other opinions which generate such feelings, the polar opposite of the mealy mouthed nonsense which our politicos spout daily in a constant effort to be seen to be relevant but without saying anything which might possibly offend anyone whatsoever.)
Wealth taxes, yes you bet they're coming to the UK - just look at the O&G industry: Norway all the way (at least on the tax to the gvmt front, likely absolutely nothing like Norway when it comes to refunding losses in cash each fiscal year!) And Norway has wealth taxes - approximately 1% of anything over about 130k in net worth. Yeap, 130,000 GBP and anything above that and you pay a little over 1% of that excess amount every year to the gvmt for the privilege of having "formue". Includes everything - houses, cars, bank deposits, ISAs, stocks and shares (minus the mortgage and car loan.) Of course what is missing in this calculus is that Norwegian council tax is about half that of the UK, but you can bet that LIEbour will ignore that and just want 1%. Probably starting on things like investment property and second homes, then it will quickly become main residence, then ISAs, cars, etc.
I don't agree that Rachel Reeves gets it about economics, if she did they'd never have announced the 78% tax on O&G whilst disallowing the "loophole" (whoever heard of effectively R&D and infrastructure development in any industry being called a loophole when writing it off against tax?!) Where do they get these cret1n5? Does the national party just stop into Idiots'r'Us and pick up party leaders at the same time as future chancellors? Perhaps they get a multi-buy discount. (I hope so, because we're sure gonna pay for it in the end.) So it will start out as a tax on "millionaires" (which is basically any lower middle class person living in London, Bristol or the SE.) And quickly become a tax on the middle class, just as stamp duty has.
Yes, the Tories are DIRE and deserve electoral wipeout. What follows will be worse because the socialists are the people the Tories normally have to clean up after, and the Tories have left the country in such a mess because cleaning up would've involved hard choices and they didn't have the spin