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Do we really need these letters?
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OneFootInTheGrave | Report | 3 Nov 2014 15:41 |
This week will see the start of taxpayers receiving letters from HMRC which will detail where their money is spent, these were the promised in an announcement by the Chancellor George Osborne in 2012. |
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Dermot | Report | 3 Nov 2014 15:50 |
I suppose the alternative would allow us to remain in sublime ignorance. |
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OneFootInTheGrave | Report | 3 Nov 2014 16:06 |
Details of the breakdown of government spending is readily available from various sources, and let's not forget, that over recent years, governments have shifted more and more of the tax burden to VAT, custom duties, and other taxes - so where is the breakdown for those taxes we pay ;-) |
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RolloTheRed | Report | 3 Nov 2014 17:14 |
The greater part of govt social expenditure is the old age pension and other payments for people of pensionable age eg pension allowance, housing benefit, bus pass, free TV (75?) |
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OneFootInTheGrave | Report | 4 Nov 2014 09:39 |
Four of the areas of government spending that are regularly in the spotlight are - Welfare Benefits, the NHS, Overseas Aid, and the amount the UK contributes to the EU Budget. |
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Shirley~I,m getting the hang of it | Report | 4 Nov 2014 09:48 |
I am sceptical anyway how are we to know how the statistics have been complied . |
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TheBlackKnight | Report | 4 Nov 2014 09:55 |
This a waste of taxpayers money and HMRC resources. It does not show how much is spent on each department that make up the welfare payments. They keep banging on about unemployment but it's cost them very little against other department says the BBC news reporter. |
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OneFootInTheGrave | Report | 4 Nov 2014 10:22 |
TheBlackKnight - the House of Commons authorities are sayin they were obliged to destroy the records after "three years" of being created for data protection reasons, under the provisions of th Data Protection Act, however IPSA, which was set up to administer the reformed expenses system, are saying that it had been advised by the Information Commissioner’s Office to hold all records created under the new regime for at least "seven years" :-S |
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TheBlackKnight | Report | 4 Nov 2014 10:27 |
I don't trust a gov that does that. |
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OneFootInTheGrave | Report | 4 Nov 2014 10:51 |
Surely we now have to trust this government as the Chancellor says they are embarking on a revolution in transparency :-0 |
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BrianW | Report | 4 Nov 2014 14:22 |
The Statute of Limitations requires significant documents to be retained for six years. |
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Annx | Report | 4 Nov 2014 16:33 |
I think it's a good idea. People are just focussing on where the money is spent, but the statements relate expenditure to tax that you have paid as an individual. Too many folk forget that someone 'pays' for these things and it isn't the govt's own bottomless pit. Too often those on the receiving end of what is paid and that don't pay anything in forget who really pays their money. |
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TheBlackKnight | Report | 4 Nov 2014 20:20 |
Well then if the 3 years are up lets let all the politicians get away with it. Let's tell the judges in the courts to let people go on the same reasons if a person is before them for fraud, it will make so much more room in our jails. |
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OneFootInTheGrave | Report | 5 Nov 2014 10:11 |
A couple of extracts from an article in the Guardian, and if the information in the article is is true, I for one, think that the Electoral Commission should take a close look at, what could possibly be, the misuse of taxpayers money to fund political propaganda, by the Conservative Government, to persuade voters to vote for them in the run up to a general election - the article is very interesting, see the link below. |
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