Scooby Do
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Post by Scooby Do on Jan 24, 2009 9:03:36 GMT
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ricklinc
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Nostalgia
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Post by ricklinc on Jan 24, 2009 10:33:39 GMT
Gordon Brown needs the money. Fewer jobs so fewer people paying income tax and he's got an ID card scheme to fund, NGOs to pay, aid for Gaza and the traditional birthday presents for African dictators. Tax and waste, tax and waste. It's all he knows.
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Post by tarrant on Jan 24, 2009 11:32:59 GMT
More Tory spin.
The small claims system is an absolute joke. It's sole purpose is to apply CCJs against a debtor to make life difficult for them in future.
Sadly, during the credit boom, banks decided to lend money to those with CCJs at a price.
Debts remain unpaid. Creditors become de facto public prosecutors and nothing more. The system is little more than a system of revenge. The Judiciary hates it. Businesses hate it.
It needs drastic reform.
Labour's instinct is intensive regulation, huge government departments headed by worthies and making everything as bureaucratic as possible.
The Tory instinct is to let the market sort it out. Business' will need to put aside some capital to write off bad debt. The problem here is that bad debts have spiralled out of control.
At best, these increases in fees are a means of forcing the issue back onto the agenda. At worse they are an attempt to stop people using the courts system.
But stealth tax???
Pure Tory Spin.
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grizzley
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It'll work sooner or later
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Post by grizzley on Jan 24, 2009 16:10:49 GMT
I am starting to see why guns have been banned in the UK
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sushimo
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Post by sushimo on Jan 24, 2009 16:17:32 GMT
The people in the UK right now making a killing financially are Pawnbrokers and Moneylenders. It's like we are back in the dark ages...
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Post by tarrant on Jan 24, 2009 17:41:10 GMT
The people in the UK right now making a killing financially are Pawnbrokers and Moneylenders. It's like we are back in the dark ages... That's a silly thing to say. What's the sense in it? |
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Post by Libby on Jan 24, 2009 23:26:09 GMT
The increases are vast too!   The cost of committal proceedings, which allow authorities to take residents who owe council tax to court, would increase 178%, from £90 to £250. |
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Post by tarrant on Jan 25, 2009 0:23:55 GMT
So, hopefully, Local Authorities will start to think twice before embarking on that route
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Woolf
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Post by Woolf on Jan 25, 2009 17:59:28 GMT
Why would they, the defaulter owes the tax.
They get the court charges on top of the amount owed, as well as any fines given.
The only people councils might hold back on are the chavs.
They will claim poverty and then be able to pay the fines back at £5 a month.
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