`Perceptions' notes at foot

 "Poorest fifth of households pay the greater tax burden"

 'Flat tax' urged by Tory Osborne (September 2005)
 Tory shadow chancellor George Osborne is set to make the case for a "flat tax"
 where is there only one tax rate. 

 Mr Osborne says the Conservatives have failed to win public trust over pledges
 of tax cuts because they too often look like "election gimmicks". 

 Eastern European countries particularly have a "flat tax" where all income over
 a certain threshold is taxed at the same rate. 

 In a speech in London, Mr Osborne will say the Tories must examine the idea. 
 He is expected to appoint an independent commission to look at having "flatter"
 taxes and even a "pure flat tax" in the UK. 

 Election problem 
 Mr Osborne denies the system would be regressive, saying earnings up to about
 £10,000-12,000 a year would not be taxed at all. 
 All income or corporation tax over that level would be set at the same rate. 
 He will tell the Social Market Foundation that the Tories have offered tax cuts
 at the last three elections and lost all of them. 

 "More striking, our tax-cutting manifestos have not helped us gain a reputation
 for  economic competence or even won us the trust of the public on tax issues,"
 he will say. Figures for tax cuts have often been announced close to polling day,
 appearing as gimmicks, he says. 

 And his party has presented lower taxes as part of an ideological argument about
 the size of the state instead of being about boosting British competitiveness. 

 Fairness 
 Calling for a new approach, Mr Osborne will say: "We need to explain how lower
 taxes do not jeopardize economic stability or threaten public services, but are
 instead a vital component for enabling us to compete in the age of globalization. 
 "We need to make the case for lower, simpler and flatter taxes as a distinct
 alternative to the higher and more complex tax system foisted on us by Gordon
 Brown."

 The Tatton MP argues the Tories must stress the need for taxes to be fairer. 
 He highlights how the poorest fifth of households currently pay the greater tax
 burden. 

 'No loopholes' 
 "Flat tax" has grown in popularity since it was introduced in Estonia in 1994.
 It is mainly used in ex-Communist eastern European states but is being examined
 in Greece and even Germany. 

 Mr Osborne will boast the merits of having one single tax rate. "Compliance
 costs fall,  and the war of attrition between accountants searching for
 loopholes and taxmen trying to sew them up is ended: loopholes are abolished,"
 he will say. 

Last Updated: Tuesday, 6 September 2005, 22:59 GMT 23:59 UK
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4220838.stm

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 `Perceptions' note:

 That claim of `fairness' didn't last long. By 01 June 2006 the same political
 party (`Conservative') announced that a flat tax is "wrong for UK" - they said
 "it's too difficult". 

 This despite the fact that Eastern and Western Europe is considering flat tax
 because it's _cheaper_ and _easier_ than all alternatives.

 So somebody is lying.  In reality the idea of `flat tax' probably terrified
 the rich, who definitely _don't_ want fair taxes.

 They want the status quo - as now - where 8 out of 10 (the working `poor')
 pay much higher taxes than the richest. 

 Try www.perceptions.couk.com/cultques.html#flat - situation now, & links;
 and www.perceptions.couk.com/damned_lies.html - politicos lying statistics,
 as used above. 

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 note2: re article at top

 It doesn't take much research to find out that those people, in `lowest 20%
 of the income scale', are actually the working majority, being around 80% of
 the UK population.  Therefore they are the ONLY real net taxpayers in UK.

 Try www.perceptions.couk.com/damned_lies.html to see how that politician
 could `legally' lie about relative `wealth' or `poverty' groups.  He made
 it sound as if the `poor' were only 1/5 of population, whereas they are
 4/5 in reality.

 In reality - those who are richer, so escaping net taxation, are scroungers
 and cheats: parasites living off the State.

 Not too surprising, since those tax parasites - the bureaucrats, senior
 police, magistrates, judges, bishops, politicians, senior media - comprise
 majority of UK's bullies and frauds (and pedophiles).

 See "omphalos.txt" (Google) for situation; "psychos2.html" for the mechanics
 of their psychosis; << "to `non-humanise' us" >> in Google for real history
 behind that psychosis. 

 and -  

 www.perceptions.couk.com/confirm7.txt for a moving contrast - the generous
 behavior of poorer people;

 and last not least -

 www.perceptions.couk.com/tax.html to see how politicians - like the one
 above - always return to lying and stealing after they get power by promising
 "fairness" - as that member of the ruling parasites did above, and other
 prominent scum are still doing today. (2006)

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