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Coalition government ministers have agreed to back down on plans to introduce a bedroom tax in cases where a household can prove a spare room is necessary for essential needs such as making billions from flogging over-priced coffee to people on the high street or selling millions of books and electronic goods on-line.
The news of the exemption comes after the government’s reform of the tax system was widely branded unfair when it was revealed it would hit the most vulnerable households – such as international high street coffee chains and multibillion online retail companies – the hardest.
A spokesperson for the government explained the reasons for the change of heart:
We recognise that it would be wrong to penalise cases of real hardship where spare rooms are being used for essential things such as making billions from selling people rubbish coffee.
That’s why we’ve decided to let the hardest hit members of society – such as Starbucks and Amazon – get away with paying next to no tax at all while making sure families who insist on being poor and people who recklessly decide to care for a disabled relative at home finally start to pay their fair share of the tax burden.
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For slightly more serious and less sarcastic information about the bedroom tax – see here:
The Bedroom Tax: The Unkindest Cut of All?
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Dear tom you probably won’t read this but never mind . A thought occurred to me which is that since the media assume that disabled ppl are workshy ie the same thing then you wonder if atos will start visiting hospital wards and have patients kicked. Out of hospital in order to save money. These malingering so called patients will be forced to go private or get nhs money bunged to privates to treat them providing they pro vide proof they are actively seeking work
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By the way for PIP assessments Atos will have mobile assessment vans for those in rural places. I wonder if these vans will connect the exhaust pipe and funnel fumes into the vans to finish off the clients .
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I read all the comments Bob – I don’t always comment myself if I feel I don’t have anything useful to add. 🙂
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“and people who recklessly decide to care for a disabled relative at home finally start to pay their fair share of the tax burden.”
Not satire I am afraid for that clearly outlines their view,bereft of the spin.The reason I became concerned with the Government and its supposed reforms was when it was clear that it put in danger the option of doing so-we did AT VAST COSTS SAVINGS TO THE STATE.I have given up in arguing against such things in terms of morality,for they and their supporters have none.My argument is clear.It is not an attempt to gain/continue to receive more “free money” it is a plea for sanity as such policies will inevitably lead to an increase in State expenditure.My wife receives DLA ,she used to use it in lieu of far more expensive hospital transport;no more because of other reductions in income due to benefit changes it is no longer possible.At a time of a “crisis in Care” to lessen the option of actual caring at the most financially prudent manner is not just misanthropic it is financial stupidity-far from “cannot afford to” it is” cannot afford NOT to” regards.
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What if the spare bedroom isn’t used for flogging coffee, but instead used for flogging gimp mask wearing MP’s? I wonder if Elm house would have been eligible for bedroom tax?
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See this link
http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=7&ved=0CFcQFjAG&url=http%3A%2F%2Fazvsas.blogspot.com%2F2013%2F01%2Fhunting-benefit-scroungers.html&ei=Fd0KUZ-5DeHV0QWRkoGICA&usg=AFQjCNF62DKhE8PVCbqlJbZJ2pi8xazMug&sig2=armSvYpZmuRJv7J-VRbp7Q
Well I can’t access it as 3 says I need a driving licence to access it. Parental guidance to read political blogs need drivers licence as proof of age
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Here is a nice book to read its called policing the workshy benefit controls and the labour market .
I notice its constantly out of stock.
Maybe IDS and DWP have bought up all the copies
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@don actually after seeing the guest list at Elm guest house you maybe right . I am wondering about the fact that despite its history the still living regulars there are connectted to the psychopaths that are in control now. Eg brittan to name just one.
By the way I see why they hauled in Clifford its cos of a video where he claims to know where the bodies are buried. So to speak eg Clarke not the trumpet playing suede shoes one the shagger one.
Oh sense of irony here I see Richmond council are trying to set up a scheme for kids using business the lib dems are concerned about child protection . Now then the elm guest house has nothing to do with present administration just to make that clear. It’s just reading stuff to do with that area and the words child protection. Just ironic if that’s the right word. Ok?
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Six people arrested in the Andrew Mitchell pleb gate saga plus post code roulette on council tax benefit for the low paid. Gerrymandering enters common parlance again it would seem?
Meanwhile, how many MP’s or bankers have bitten the bullet? ________________________________
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Best keep quiet about flogging – you’ll be getting all those Bullingdon types in Parliament hot under the collar.
As for Elm House – expect arrests soon!
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