The Budget - how will it affect you

[the_lone_wolf]

So, the half man half badger has announced what he's going to do with our money this year, and how much he wants off us, as the org is probably a representative sample if you want to find out just how the changes will affect you you can use this page from BBC news:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/629/629/7290230.stm

Vote for how much you've lost/saved - I'm in luck, i'm supposedly up ?108 next year...

Poll is on it's way...

[mister c]

I think I'll be a lot better off.
1, Packed up smoking when I had my accident.
2, Don't really drink (Maybe 3 pints) if & when i go out (about once every 3 weeks)
3, Sold my car.
So I can live with the old budget.


Anyone want to buy some plastic bags cheap :-D:-D:-D:-D:-D:-D

[timwilky]

Surprisingly, that calculator says I will be about £213 better off.

[wyrdness]

About £280 better off. I'll be paying less tax, but a lot more NI.

[Biker Biggles]

Im £300 better off too,but when you allow for inflation we are all a lot worse off.

[TEC]

Find a calculator that has bikes instead of cages and it may be able to tell the truth ;)

[the white rabbit]

Its all going from tax to NI.

[timwilky]

I find it strange that the government fail to acknowledge the windfall they have had from increasing oil prices. All that extra VAT on petrol, gas, electricity etc.

[ethariel]

Close to £300 better off, however i would love to see which of the so called 'stealth taxes' have come in, increased, doubled, changed scope and overall come home to bite!

Colin

[Girth]

I'll be ?47 worse off

[DoubleD]

I'm £77 worse off

[Flamin_Squirrel]

£100 better off, through 'tax creidts'. I don't claim for any of those, does that mean I'm missing out? :?

[Miss Alpinestarhero]

It won't affect me really, apart from having to pay more NI.

I don't drink alcohol at all so no worries there
I don't smoke
I have no intention of owning a so called "gas guzzler"

To be honest, I find this whole budget thing complicated and no matter how hard I try and stay interested (because it is our money they are on about) I just get bored to tears... :-s

Oh, and apparently i'll be ?179 better off :D

I do, however, have one idea (which isnt new) of how the government can "save money". Sort out the benefit system. Too many people are claiming when they shouldn't be.

Maria

[tigersaw]

£290 better off according to the link, but it doesn't take the hike in fuel duty into account that has been postponed

[simesb]

Apparently I'll be over £700 better off, but I somehow doubt it.......

[the white rabbit]

Woooooooooohoooooooooo.....we are all better off. Praise the lovely Labour government, Mr Gordon Brown and especially the fantastically eyebrowed Mr Alistair Darling...isnt he?


I'm gonna catch me a 'Squirrel...

[Jester666]

I'll be worse off but then I was expecting it as I;

1 Use petrol
2 Smoke
3 Drink

I just can't be bothered to watch or read about the budget anymoe as each time I get shafted by whatever government is in power at the time.

All those who said they will be better off, have you taken the 3.9% council tax increase into account as well as the 2p on fuel duty coming in October?

[metalmonkey]

Its says for about ?300, but I some how doubt that. As it doesn't take into my bike, or just how much everything will go up by.

Plus my student is a bitch, it takes alot of my pay. As others have said I can see my self being taxed on something else, I don't drink a great deal either, don't smoke. But when you look at the rate at which food is going up by and everything else, I'm sure I will have less and less free cash.

Oh how do these tax credit things work? If earn over so much I take it you don't get anything?

[Jester666]

Woooooooooohoooooooooo.....we are all better off. Praise the lovely Labour government, Mr Gordon Brown and especially the fantastically eyebrowed Mr Alistair Darling...isnt he?


I'm gonna catch me a 'Squirrel...

Do I detect a teeny weeny bit of sarcasm in that reply!! :lol:

[the white rabbit]

Do I detect a teeny weeny bit of sarcasm in that reply!! :lol:

Maybe, but I quite like the Labour government in an they are all as bad as one another way, but less bad than Lamont and that lot from the 80's, kids.

[Tim in Belgium]

Enough money for another Trackday :)

[Stingo]

£431.60 a month...better off? :cheers::cheers::smt030:smt030[-o<[-o<


:D:D

That can't be right...shurely shum mishtake mishter...:smt102

[amnesia]

Over £600 better off apparently.

But its all crap because our utility bills have all gone up, council tax has gone up (by 4% or so) and we pay more for a loaf of bread now than we did 6 months ago

We loose on NI, but gain much more than we loose on the reduction in income tax.


Swings and roundabouts...

[Tiger 55]

A tickle over 300 quid better off?

My ****.

[Tim in Belgium]

Tickle and your ar$€ almost in one sentence? No thanks...

[Ed]

Worse off as we like whiskey in our house:D

[dizzyblonde]

oh apparently I'll be 800 quid better off, like hell I will

[rick0361]

About ?300 better off but whats the use of that when every other b^gger has hiked the prices of everything else - it would seem I am just about at a standstill
:nomore:

[rick0361]

Also just got council tax and water bills today so thats stuffed the better off bit as well !!!

Really pi$$ed off now:mad:

[Gazza77]

?168 better off, from the budget..... other things will soon eat into that though!

[Marshall]

well depending how i fill it in depends on what results i get. if i fill in just me im going to be £45 worse off, if i fill in im cohabiting i should be able to get £750 worth of tax credits whatever they are. god knows

all i know is stella is getting more expensive

[Ed]

all i know is stella is getting more expensive

Not in the Co-op it isn't. They have an offer - 4X568ml (1 pint) cans for £5:cool: - and if you're a member you get the divi too:cool::cool:

[Marshall]

Not in the Co-op it isn't. They have an offer - 4X568ml (1 pint) cans for £5:cool: - and if you're a member you get the divi too:cool::cool:

not too bad, my random booze supplier does 6x500ml for £5:cool:

[the_lone_wolf]

all i know is stella is getting more expensive

at least labour is doing something right then...

;)

[G]

£169 better off apparently.

Funnily enoughI'm pretty sure I wont feel the benefit of it or even know it existed.

[plowsie]

£27 Worse off.

£40 on income tax worse off. Nice one.

[Tara]

nearly ?1000 worse off how does that work:rolleyes:

[plowsie]

nearly ?1000 worse off how does that work:rolleyes:
Your an alcoholic, chain smoker?

[Tara]

Your an alcoholic, chain smoker?

er No :rolleyes:

[kitkat]

woohoo £975 better off

[ASM-Forever]

I voted over £500 worse off, but having made no calculations my vote was based on pessimism.