Cost of living

Back to the cost of living. If they cant up the cost of living enough, then they lower you tax code.

The wife just retired as I told you, her tax code dropped from 570 L to 7 H. If she does any part time work she can only earn £1 a month before tax. That takes her below the basic rate for a single person. I myself had my tax code dropped when I was registered dissabled. I claimed my private pension, so as not too claim family income support. They now reduce my dissability living allowance by £15 per week. What is left, they add to my pension, and tax me on the lot. If I had not claimed my pension, but claimed family income support, I would have about £180 per week extra and no tax deducted. I dont need an increase in the cost of living to reduce my weekly income. The tax man does it for me. Bummer or what?

That's life I'm afraid if you're British born and bred and paid your way all the time you were working, paid your taxes and never got in debt Peter...very fair eh?

Petrol here is still going up by 2p every other day, £1.16 ltr yesterday, how can us who live in rural areas get anywhere without driving when there's NO public transport??? I HAVE to drive to get to work!

The tax on beer  and alcohol was originally a world war one TEMPORARY tax because munitions workers were supposedly getting drunk in their dinner break and making faulty ammunition.

The shortage of quality ammuntion was blamed particularly for failure in battles around 1915. Needless to say its still here .

Good old GB used to have a daylight or window tax where you got taxed according to how much daylight your windows let in.(I'm amazed they havent bought that one back, they tax everything else)

Basically in UK you have to work for about 8 years and save every penny of it to afford to buy an average house(based on average earnings and average house price).

The average earnings figure is about twice as high as real though because it takes into account EVERYONE paid a wage including bosses of banks on millions of pounds bonus per year, directors getting paid millions etc.

I get paid £11k a year  for a 40 hr week which is often 60 hours and your cheapest houses are around £100k.

£11,000 per year for a 40 hour week ( let alone working any additional hours) is working on an average hourly rate below the legal minimum wage as of the 1st Oct. 2008 for those aged aged 22 and over, which is £5.73 per hour.

http://www.berr.gov.uk/whatwedo/employment/pay/national-minimum-wage/index.html