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you jest, Shirley? its almost de rigueur to have a u-turn, and this one is frankly tame compared to Osborne's list of row backs.

an interesting plan. if he had any minerals he'd tackle the anomaly of higher rate tax payer pension relief, recovering double figure billions and not really impacting anyone directly.

some people register as self employed to lower their tax, when they might otherwise be employed, pay full employee NIC. if you want to complain about tax avoidance, need to close all the loop holes, including this small one used by anyone self employed earning £5000-50000. im conflicted on...

if referring to what i posted, i never made any argument "employed = not flexible". said flexibility is a benefit for people going self employed, generally its more flexible than employed. you can pick and choose hours, days, even jobs you work. not always of course, but is the case for most...

as predicted, see that McDonnell is saying NI change is wrong, despite having previously called for end of tax avoidance.

thing is you had to look for anything in this budget, it was bereft of anything interesting. NIC was headline grabbing but affects a small number of people a small amount. dividend allowance change is actually a bigger deal, but seems less noticed. £2Bn for care is about the only other new...

as the budget managed to not mention Brexit, can we keep it out of the budget thread?

honestly dont know where Corbyn finds £70bn cuts from, i didnt see any explicit tax cuts though maybe they found some in the detail. does this include the increases in basic and higher rate tax allowances?

charge/earn more, flexible hours are the obvious answers.

think thats way too cynical, and illogical when most people are employed. your list previous page is mostly employer benefits, while NI contributes to state benefits which are broadly the same regardless of your employment.

i predict those complaining of anti-tax avoidance/evasion criticising any changes to NI and dividends, despite them having called for these changes for years, as they suddenly find out its not just high income individuals using these methods.