Petem95

This is pretty shocking!

July 1997

01 • Mortgage Interest Tax Relief At Source (MIRAS) reduced from 15% to 10%
02 • Dividend Tax Credits for pension schemes abolished
03 • Income tax relief on health insurance abolished
04 • Insurance Premium Tax extended to some health insurance
05 • Road Fuel Tax escalator increased to 6%
06 • Vehicle Excise Duty increased
07 • Tobacco duty escalator increased to 5%
08 • Stamp Duty raised to 2%
09 • Carry back of Corporation Tax losses limited to 1 year
10 • Windfall tax on utilities

March 1998

11 • Tax relief for the married couple's allowance (MCA) cut to 10%
12 • Top rate of Insurance Premium Tax extended to travel insurance
13 • Exceptional increase in tobacco and alcohol duties
14 • Duties on casinos and gaming machines raised
15 • Road Fuel Tax escalator increase brought forward
16 • Tax on company cars increased
17 • Tax relief on foreign earnings abolished
18 • Tax concessions for certain professions abolished
19 • Capital gains tax imposed on certain non-residents
20 • Restriction of Capital Gains Tax relief on reinvestment
21 • Corporation tax payments on account brought forward
22 • Stamp duty increased again
23 • Certain hydrocarbon duties increased
24 • Additional diesel duties introduced
25 • Landfill Tax increased
26 • Double tax credits on certain dividends restricted

March 1999

27 • National Insurance Contributions earning limit raised
28 • NI Contributions for self-employed increased
29 • Tax relief of Married Couple's Allowance abolished
30 • MIRAS abolished
31 • Self-employed contractors to pay NI and income tax as if employees
32 • Company car business mileage discount limited
33 • Double escalator on tobacco duties
34 • Insurance Premium Tax increased to 5%
35 • Vocational training relief abolished
36 • Employer NI Contribution base broadened to include all benefits in kind
37 • VAT on some banking services increased
38 • Tax on reverse premiums paid to tenants by landlords introduced
39 • Duty on domestic fuel oils up
40 • Vehicle Excise Duty for lorries increased
41 • Landfill tax escalator introduced
42 • Stamp Duty rates raised again to 2.5/3.5%

March 2000

43 • Tobacco duties increased above inflation
44 • Stamp duty raised for 4th time, scope of duty extended
45 • Extra taxation of life assurance companies
46 • Rules on tax havens tightened up
47 • Company car taxes raised

2001

The Chancellor gives the exhausted nation a year off – no new stealth taxes!

April 2002

48 • Personal tax allowances frozen
49 • National Insurance threshold frozen
50 • NI Contributions for employers raised
51 • NI Contributions for employees raised [Class 1 up 1%]
52 • NI Contributions for self-employed raised
53 • North Sea taxation increased
54 • Duty on some alcoholic drinks raised
55 • Stamp duty thresholds frozen
56 • Tax relief on investment in film industy restricted
57 • Rules on corporate debt tightened
58 • Nil-rate threshold for inheritance tax raised by less than the rate of inflation

April 2003

59 • VAT imposed on electronically supplied services
60 • Domestic staff on £89/week to pay NI & income tax, employers to pay NI
61 • Betting duty increases
62 • Tax on red diesel and fuel oil increased
63 • Anti-tax haven rules tightened to cover more UK firms with Irish subsidiaries
64 • Vehicle excise duty raised
65 • Personal tax allowances frozen again

July, 2003

66 • £35 added to all fines and £3 added to the cost of a home insurance policy

September, 2003

67 • Price of petrol raised 7p per gallon (with the VAT)

October, 2003

68 • Up to 8 times increase in the stamp duty on leases for retail premises
69 • Airport Tax doubled

December, 2003

70 • 40% extra Council Tax on second homes was sneaked in while the Westminster Wonders were breaking up for their hols a whole week before Xmas.
Additional info : It has been pointed out that a number of councils gave an even bigger discount for second homes and the increase for some people can be 80%. Plus the usual 6-18% annual rise, depending on how bloated the council's operations have become.
Exemptions may be granted if the second home owner (1) has to live somewhere because of his/her employment, (2) the dwelling comes with the job, or (3) there are special threat/security reasons involved. All of which excuses apply to 10, Downing Street, the home of a certain Mr. Anthony B. Liar. (Thanks to M.K.)

January, 2004

71 • £60 per day fine for late submission of self-assessment income tax forms
72 • Traffic wardens to receive powers to impose fines for a whole bunch of offences to keep poor people off the roads. The offences will include parking more than 19 inches from the kerb (£100) and dithering by people who are lost over, and who don't know whether to make a turn or keep straight on
73 • A 'Victims Fund' surcharge fine on everyone who passes through the courts. £5 for speeding up to £30 for murder.
74 • Legal Aid for the middle classes abolished

February, 2004

75 • £40 per week charge to middle-class parents for formerly free nursery places
76 • £200 per year charge to middle-class parents for places on formerly free school buses
77 • £250 per hour charge from the fire brigade for non-fire-related call-outs, e.g. clearing up after road accidents and rescuing ***** cats from trees

March, 2004

78 • £550 tax rise (at standard rate) for people using a company van or people-carrier out of work time
79 • Council Tax will rise at least 7.4% next year (according to the Budget)
80 • The tax incentive for owner-operator small businesses to become companies abolished
81 • Tax on cross-border payments for goods and services between multi-divisional companies extended to transactions within the UK
82 • Tax on trusts up from 34% to 40%
83 • Duty on red diesel up 1p/litre above inflation (57% rise)
84 • Duty on liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) used as fuel up 1p/litre above inflation (45% rise)

85 • Personal allowances for taxpayers under 65 frozen

April 2004

86 • PEPs and ISAs containing shares lose their tax break on dividends and the annual ISA allowance cut by £2,000 to £5,000

87 • The 100% tax allowance for small businesses & self-employed on new computer/advanced telephone equipment cut to 50% for 2004/5 tax year

88 • Passports – in addition to costing twice as much as the present price of £42, the new 'biometric data' passports will be valid for half as long. They will have to be renewed every 5 years instead of every 10 years, which doubles the cost yet again.

89 • £100 per year 'lighthouse tax' on small boats over 8 metres long. Commerial shipping lines think they should pay £2.6million per year towards the annual £73million cost of maintaining lighthouses and navigational equipment.

May 2004

90 • Council Tax bills to rise a further £110 in the affected areas to pay for 'Two Jags' Prescott's regional assemblies


91 • Repeat prescriptions : They last only 56 days now. Previously, they lasted up to 112 days – so costs for some people have doubled. The logic, apparently, is that people often don't take all of their tablets; BUT it still means that those who do have doubled costs. And it means twice the work for hard-pressed GPs.

92 • Vehicle Insurance Premiums : In 1999, the law was changed to let NHS trusts reclaim treatment costs from motor insurance companies in cases where fault had been established and compensation paid. Insurance premiums have risen by at least £5 per year to pay for the charging regime.

Before 1999 hospitals could only recoup £21 from road accident victims towards the cost of their treatment. The 1999 act set fixed rates of more than £400 per day for patients who were not admitted, and more than £500 for those forced to stay in hospital.

In March 2004, the rates were raised, allowing hospitals to recover up to £34,800 per case. As a result some major hospitals are now claiming more than £500,000 a year from insurance companies. In effect, patients are now paying twice for the NHS – through both taxes and increased insurance premiums.

oilman

iTrader: (9)

WOW, that's a vote winner if ever I saw one

Cheers
Simon

Brendan Hughes

How about someone tries to do the same for 10 years of Tory govt through the 80s?

I don't expect much difference.

fast bloke

Brendan - The difference is that Labia promised not to raise taxes to get in in 1997.... wonder why they skipped 2001 - IIRC they promised not to raise income tax, and followed the election result with a rise in NI contributions which was basically an increase on tax on your income

Jap2Scrap

Besides Brendan, the 80's were then, this is now.. I broadly agree with what you're saying but these figures are more relevant. To me anyway.

Iain Young

All it shows is simply that during the period a government is in power, changes have to be made, (the cons made a similar number of changes during their reign. Anyone remember the poll tax fiasco?)

Anyone who pledges never to raise taxes is untrustworthy IMO, as it will continue happen in one form or another until the population at large stop sponging off the government for so much stuff (benefits etc). I can't see that happening any time soon...

pslewis

You're right there!!

Indeed, it would be WORSE!!!

Tory ScumBags

Pete

pslewis

What did Labour NOT do then .........

........................................ that the TORIES DID!!??


3 million++ unemployed
Black Wednesday
Highest Interest Rates in Living Memory
Boom and Bust
BSE
Escalating Violence in Northern Ireland
Highest Inflation Rates in Living Memory
Highest Interest Rates in Living Memory
More un-elected Tory Peers in the House of Lords
Poll Tax
Privatized Rail Network
Privatized Utilities
Highest Interest Rates in Living Memory
Record Businesses Failures
Record Home Repossessions
Record Levels of Industrial Strikes
Highest Interest Rates in Living Memory
Record Mortgage Arrears
Restrictions to Join a Union
Highest Interest Rates in Living Memory
Run Down Education Service
Run Down National Health Service
Highest Interest Rates in Living Memory
Run Down Police Services
Highest Interest Rates in Living Memory
Sleaze and Corruption (beyond belief)
Sweat Shop Wages
Did I say, Highest Interest Rates in Living Memory?
Etc…etc…etc.

It goes on and on and on and on .......................

Vote Tory and destroy the country!! History backs it all up!!

Pete

Spring Heeled Jack

2001 was an election year.

pslewis

So was the Falklands War year ...... well done Maggie!!

Labours Election year did NOT cost lives!!!

Pete

Petem95

And nor did the attack on Iraq in search of those WMD's....

You claim Labour have ended boom and bust?.. not been keeping an eye on house prices then have you

At least they gave us the true figure instead feeding us lies like Bliar - how many on incapacity now?.....

I could go on, but the fact that pslewis has to repeat things loads of times in his list of Tory bads just goes to show he has hardly anything negative to put forward compared to Bliars list of crimes.

unclebuck

Apart from the 1000s who die in our filthy hospitals needlessly, killed by the MRSA super bug.

But I guess Blairs real killing field is Iraq where tens of thousands of innocents were slaughtered, making the Falklands conflict look like a tea party in comparrison. At least Thatcher had a genuine cause to fight for.

unclebuck

As lewis is so keen on looking at the past:

Winston Churchill was named "the most popular Prime Minister of all time" in a an internet poll (www.xrefer.com), with 43% of the vote. Second was Lady Thatcher at 23%.

Blair was fifth....

Iain Young

And I'm sure that poll was entirely non-biased, asking only people who not only came from a wide sample of the population, but also knew in depth everything those respective prime ministers actually did for the country

You can make polls / statistics prove any point you want if you know how to interpret them....

Brendan Hughes

Yup - 18 different versions of the true figure, if I remember correctly.

Brendan Hughes

Entirely my point. I'm no fan of either side, but if you're going to make a choice, have a clear look at both sides first.

SJ_Skyline

Pete,

You talk a load of crap!

David Lloyd George's LIBERAL government too inflation to 25.2% in 1917 and Harold Wilson's LABOUR government took inflation to 24.2% in 1975, 6.2% higher than at ANY point in the 1980s.


HTH and correct your inaccuracies

OllyK

When PSL says "in living memory" he is no doubt referring to his selective memory rather than the historical record

SJ_Skyline

Olly,

I chose this "fact" because it can be verified. I couldn't find much accessible info on interest rates but seeing as Pete is so wealthy he ought to embrace high interest rates! Making the Tories responsible for BSE is like making Labour responsible for Foot and Mouth. The difference is the action or rather inaction Labour took. Record levels of industrial strikes is utter bull****, I am sure Pete was alive between 1973 and 1977.



As you rightly say - "selective memory"

TonyBurns

iTrader: (3)

Well considering that the tories covered up BSE for over 5 years there could be a point there.....
Plus you have to see what they did to everything else.....

Hospitals..... decimated by the tories....
Privatisation...... you wonder how they made money
High interest rates.... oh yes, the housing boom that just went BOOM! leaving people homeless as they couldnt afford the repayments at 14+%
Unemployment..... yup over 3 million, think it even made the 4 million mark, and what was this down to? well basically undermining our industry, engineering, mining etc.

There are lots of things any government does, at the moment the tories have nothing good to show us, if anything, most think they need to go back to school and do some more calculations as their sums definately dont add up.
Though im not taking sides (as it was a labour government that basically lost me my last job though greed) it could have well been the same if it were a Conservative or Liberal government also.

Tony

pslewis

Given a balanced mind, within a sensible person, taking all the facts as they are, no-one in their right mind would EVER put a TORY party in EVER again!

Luckily, the Tories will only gain power once more when THIS happens:-

Pete

SJ_Skyline

Pete,

Evidently that has already happened!

OllyK

You voting Tory this time round then Pete?

Angry

Eh? Sorry? I thought we had two right wing parties, one claiming to be right wing, the other being Labour?