observer Posted January 26, 2014 Report Share Posted January 26, 2014 Seems Labour are promising a return to a 50p super-tax, which in theory, should yield £100million pa. Problem is, unless you have legislation in place without loop-holes, advised by the very people who move on to advice the evaders/avoiders, and an inspectorate with the guts to gather it from the big fish; the Tories may be right in saying that the tax take will decrease. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dizzy Posted January 26, 2014 Report Share Posted January 26, 2014 How much does he get paid ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazj Posted January 27, 2014 Report Share Posted January 27, 2014 How much does he get paid ? When he was a government minister, Ed Balls had a salary of about £141,000 a year. His wife; Yvette Balls was also a government minister and also on £141,000 a year.... this was obviously not enough for them: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mps-expenses/5325590/Ed-Balls-and-Yvette-Cooper-flipped-homes-three-times-MPs-expenses.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazj Posted January 27, 2014 Report Share Posted January 27, 2014 He also gets quite a few sponsors and other freebies; paid for by various companies and individuals...these are a couple of the biggies: (full list link at the bottom) ( Name of donor: Pricewaterhouse Coopers ( Address of donor: 1 Embankment Place, London WC1N 6RM ( Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: the services of a research assistant/analyst to support me in my opposition front bench role, for 5 days a week on a 17 week secondment from 5 November 2012 to 1 March 2013, value £88,060 ( Date of receipt: 5 November 2012 to 1 March 2013 ( Date of acceptance: 5 November 2012 to 1 March 2013 ( Donor status: Limited Liability Partnership ( (Registered 3 December 2012) ( Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: the services of a research assistant/analyst to support me in my opposition front bench role, for 4 days a week on a 22 week secondment from 4 January 2012 to 1 June 2012, value £72,576 ( Date of receipt: 4 January to 1 June 2012 ( Date of acceptance: 4 January to 1 June 2012 ( (Registered 14 January 2012; updated 18 June 2012) ( Date of receipt: 6 June 2013 ( Date of acceptance: 6 June 2013 ( (Registered 21 June 2013) http://www.theyworkforyou.com/regmem/?p=11740 Not bad when someone else pays for your employees is it???? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davy51 Posted January 27, 2014 Report Share Posted January 27, 2014 Not exactly " Labour Values" in practise there Baz . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
observer Posted January 28, 2014 Author Report Share Posted January 28, 2014 Think the question is, the ability or otherwise, of Inland Revenue Services to gather in any increase in tax. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lt Kije Posted January 28, 2014 Report Share Posted January 28, 2014 I think if you started to do Tory Ministers you would get a bigger shock Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazj Posted January 28, 2014 Report Share Posted January 28, 2014 I think if you started to do Tory Ministers you would get a bigger shock Not really; I think most people expect Tory ministers to have a gifted background; that is generally where their parliamentary members come from.... it is the Labour lot who somehow see themselves as the champion of the working man whilst trousering hundreds of thousands of pounds of taxpayers money that is more of a surprise Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
observer Posted January 28, 2014 Author Report Share Posted January 28, 2014 Not really interested who or what they are, just as long as the taxman takes his 50%. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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