Long Overdue, Don't You Think?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/immigration/11028013/Osbornes-plan-to-make-250000-migrant-workers-pay-tax.html

[ToraToraTora]

good idea, it also includes expats who also take advantage of the tax free allowance and don't even live here!

[Zacs-Master]

Note the words 'could' and 'plan'. carrot dangling voting device?

[SeaJayPea]

Is there an election due soon?

There is no way they'll be allowed to do this. All EU citizens have to be treated the same in each member state. What's the betting that we hear in a few months time something to the effect of "well we tried to do it, but those sods in Brussels wouldn't let us".

[SeaJayPea]

They'd make far more money going after the likes of Amazon, Starbucks and Google.

[Mamyalynne]

Struggling to read a lot of small print today - does the article also explain where they are going to conjure up the fruit pickers, chamber maids and other low paid seasonal workers when the migrants don't come?

[Peter Pedant]

One of your more cr*p ideas, AOG

as ever if you are gonna make money from tax ( er you may not wish to ) then it necessary to tot up how much it costs to administer.

The 7/6 dog licence was abandoned when it cost more to administer ....

against that, you balance the tax take. - what you expect to collect.

Then you look at the number of people who will pay it - this is called the tax base 250 000 - compared to 31 million income tax payers

Peanuts - what are you expecting to get ?
compared to 1p on income tax absolute peanuts.

even if you say each immigrant is instantly taxed £1000,
that is still £250m - peanuts - half a hospital at todays prices....

The student loan company says that half its income from the revolting students is spent administering itself.

If that is true here, it is a quarter of a hospital....

[Gromit]

A bit of mixed messages coming from the Tories on immigration. They need to get there act together before May or they are toast.

[New Judge]

This proposal will fall foul of EU equality laws. You cannot treat people from anywhere in the EU differently regardless of their status as "non-domiciled for tax purposes". In short, anyone employed in the UK must enjoy the benefits enjoyed by all workers.

Stand by for a small item in the newspapers in a week or so which says that this proposal has been quietly ditched.

[youngmafbog]

It's the correct thing to do, but as pointed out our EU and not doubt the ECHR friends will scupper it.

We are no longer masters of our own land.

[Peter Pedant]

On a point of order new judge - you could make it subject to Equality and free passage laws - just by saying they get taxed like the rest of us

BUT - it wouldnt bring in much as the expectation of the tax bill of a migrant is not gonna be that much.

If it is chocolate coloured and dont talk English then tax it...
yet another winner from the AB think-tank

Quite a good discussion on, will the tax raise money and how much does it cost ? on the Tx disc thread.

[Peter Pedant]

Noppe YMB this effect - tax laws and and its effect on migration,
is being felt in the Land of the Free

That Muslim president they have - what-s-name - is railing about US companies leaving the land of the free and going else where where the tax regime is easier ( tax inversion ) - there is thus a pressure toward tax harmonisation in a global economy.

sorry to raise the level of discussion out of the trough it is in

[Svejk]

^cheek. oink,oink!

[anotheoldgit]

Peter Pedant

/// Sorry to raise the level of discussion out of the trough it is in ///

To raise the level of discussion others need to be able to decipher what the H*ll you are going on about.

[Peter Pedant]

then I have raised it.... only for some.

[TWR]

How long before one of these people take it to the Euro Courts for Discrimination? but I will give this Gov their credit, THEY ARE QUICK.

[New Judge]

Er... I think that's what I suggested just after 10pm last night, TWR.

[TWR]

Not long seen it N.J.