They need the money. .to hand to their mates.

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Headline one:
‘People who pay tradesmen cash in hand are “diddling” the economy and diverting money from hospitals and schools’
Headline two:
‘Taxpayer-owned RBS hands CEO Stephen Hester £963,000’

11 thoughts on “They need the money. .to hand to their mates.”

    • My argument has always been that it stops the bastard government double-dipping. Taxing the income then taxing the income paid to the tradesman.
      The whole thing is a nonsense anyway–the buyer of the service has already paid tax on the money he uses to pay for the job and the tradesman promptly spends that money on other goods and services which are taxed in any case.
      What this is all about is government greed and the arrogant assumption that they’re entitled to a cut of people’s lives in order to be able to pay their crony friends exorbitant salaries and bonuses, and bribe their welfare constituents.
      Screw ’em.
      If the tax system worked the way they’d like it to, all free enterprise would grind to a halt.

      • The only fair tax is a sales tax,tax the money when it’s spent,not when it’s earned or invested.

        As for paying cash to Tradesmen,most Tradesmen I know need the cash under the table to survive since they get hammered for 16% of their gross earnings to fund all the socialists wet dream programs.

          • :shock: how can anyone survive in that? Imagine if you could sock that 30% away out of reach of greedy politicians and lawyers?

            So when I see jobs in Oz advertised as $90,000A then roughly $27,000 is going POOF!?

            • That’s why the avoidance industry is so huge, Darin. The tax code is insanely complicated, with levies for this (e.g. A ‘one-off’ levy for last year’s Queensland floods) and deductions for that. A surcharge if you don’t take out private medical insurance, and deductions for taking out Income Protection Insurance. The top rate is $0.47′ which kicks in at $180,000. And that’s why so many high earners avoid becoming salaried employees, but choose instead to corporatise so they can split the tax burden with their wife.

  2. I just love the “diverting money from hospitals and schools” bullshit.
    If they’re diverting money, it’s from fat-cat friends of the government, slimeball politicians and effing Somalis and Pakistanis being given million-dollar houses and thousands a month of taxpayer’s money.

  3. They just don’t get it and perhaps never will.What is needed is a drop in standards of living guaranteed to the useless by government on the back of the working tax payer.

    Less,not more government is the answer. People might then not resent all the taxes and bullshit they have to put up with. The non cuts at the MoD are probably a good example.

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