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Our creaking tax system is crying out for reform

NOW that the Chancellor Alistair Darling has publicly acknowledged that he is considering a stamp duty “holiday” he will have to go ahead with the measure very soon.

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PETER PAN AT THE TREASURY AND MR. DARLING AT NO TEN

06.08.08, 5:27pm

Oh what a tragic comedy we have come to.
Genuine mortgage holders, priced out of their homes because of inflation and the ever rising cost of living. And yet, this is August the 6th. Just eight months after Christmas 2007. When the City of London paid out some Eight Billion £Pounds in Bonuses (I seem to remember.) to the Merchant Bankers of the City of London, at the very beginning of the credit meltdown, the collapse of the Private Pensions Industry and next will be the Unemployment of the honest working Taxpayers.
This cannot be avoided now. But much of it can be mitigated if you do as I have been suggesting
for a year or two now. Abandon Westminster and Whitehall, and start your own system of Taxation, based on the Parish, Town and County Council. You, the poor Bl***** Taxpayer, take control of Direct Taxation and ignore London. The only Tax that can be Legally be Enforced, is the Local Council Tax. Westminster has no more power than that. Then my beauties, County by **** County, put together your own system of Public Service Funding, and you, you the poor b*** Taxpayer, say what you are prepared to support in the way of Services. And more to the point, what you will pay for and who you will pay for. It is your Bl*** Money.
Regards, ATFlynn, "Norfolk's Mutineer"

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