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@holmesy1975.bsky.social

🧑🎩COYH🎩🧑 Luton Town FC, anti-brexit, save the 🌍🌎🌏 Mid-market financial due diligence specialist Intelligent but some way off intellectual. I also enjoy a good giggle #LTFC #COYH #WALT #FDD #TaxDD

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Those who believe in climate change believe the science

Those who don’t believe it will cost too much and be damaging to the fossil fuel industry

Shouldn’t that tell you all you need to know?

23.03.2025 16:57 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Moses
Baptiste
and now …..
Christ

Who’s next for Luton Town?

#COYH #WALT #LTFC

13.12.2024 22:34 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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Sadly the reality is this.

Regardless of whether it is fair or not, pensioners did not save enough or reproduce enough to cover the costs of their own retirement

They are also most likely to vote against immigrants who might do the work needed to pay for the shortfall

12.12.2024 18:29 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

When they stop being scared of the flipping media

12.12.2024 17:56 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Majority of Brexit voters β€˜would accept free movement’ to access single market Europe-wide polling finds UK and EU leaders now out of step with public opinion and pursue β€˜ambitious reset’

New study shows majority of people who voted to leave EU would now accept return to free movement in exchange for access to the single market & similar support for a reciprocal youth mobility scheme.
So when will the government catch up? @europeanmovement.co.uk
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

12.12.2024 11:14 β€” πŸ‘ 811    πŸ” 287    πŸ’¬ 43    πŸ“Œ 13

For the past 10-15 years you’ve enjoyed an upwards trajectory and the first shit we tread in you’re ready to throw them out? Really?

10.12.2024 20:35 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

This isn’t an issue of trust. How can they have lost your trust? That would imply they did something devious or conniving to actively damage the club

Whatever about the results being less than ideal, it isn’t about trust

10.12.2024 17:23 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

🚨⚠️!!! ALERT !!!⚠️🚨

Under new laws passed today, British citizens promoting the UK leaving ECHR will be classified as political enemies of the state and immediately transferred to makeshift prison camps in the Orkney Islands for an indefinite period without trial or right of appeal.

10.12.2024 14:33 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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If true, this is slightly shocking from the UK perspective

Rapidly coming to the opinion that we can’t currently afford the public services we do have - yet the amount we spend on the NHS / Healthcare is so much lower than other advanced nations

And we still expect world leading care / outcomes?

10.12.2024 06:16 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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08.12.2024 15:30 β€” πŸ‘ 648    πŸ” 154    πŸ’¬ 12    πŸ“Œ 4

No I’m suggesting that the deductible is reduced by the tax credits your underpaid staff receive

08.12.2024 18:21 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Say this company was underpaying its staff by 20 the situation may change

PCTCT (as before). 60
Tax credit restriction 20
Revised PCTCT. 80
Tax at 25%. (20)
Profit. 40

Therefore the billionaire can withdraw Β£5 less due to the restriction

08.12.2024 18:02 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Sure, it’s the rate of corporation tax

Wages (including employers NIC) are β€œallowable” expenses which means they are deducted from profits chargeable to corporation tax

Therefore these costs reduce the amount of tax you pay eg

Sales 100
Wages (40)
PCTCT. 60
Tax. (15)
Profit. 45

08.12.2024 18:02 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

The best World Cup ever.

I will hear no arguments to the contrary.

08.12.2024 13:02 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Would obviously not apply to apprentices and trainees

But if you’re a billionaire who doesn’t pay your staff enough that the state / taxpayer is picking up the rest of the bill and you’ve been able to extract even more cash from your business due to these subsidies- then that needs addressing IMO

08.12.2024 11:22 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Staff receiving tax credits could easily be identified through personal tax codes

The level of corporation tax relief on wages could be restricted by value of credits given

Encourages fairer wages, reduces subsidies for profitable business & burden on the taxpayer.

08.12.2024 11:16 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Why should large employers receive tax relief at 25% on salaries / wages paid to staff that are so low the taxpayer has to top them up with tax credits? Esp. Someone like Amazon

It’s an obvious absurdity. A double dip. Second bite of the cherry.

At a time when benefits bill is higher than ever

08.12.2024 11:16 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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Amid the havoc, Storm Darragh brings some good news...

07.12.2024 16:53 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Hi πŸ‘‹

07.12.2024 16:05 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

As Nigel Farage wants to leave the ECHR why don’t we just lock him up in a labour camp for having views that the state disagrees with?

07.12.2024 10:43 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I think we’ll be ok. We have enough to keep mid-table

The more I think about it the more I think we are missing Locks on pitch and in the dressing room (which is in no way a criticism)

Carlton the de facto leader at the moment but is it only temporary in squad players minds?

07.12.2024 09:16 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

If she feels so bad about scroungers she could hand back her pension and go back to work?

06.12.2024 20:25 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Whilst it initially applied to Bontcho, I have been able to apply Guentchev’s Law in many other ways to scientifically prove Luton are better than anyone else in order to irritate the crap out of my mates

Does anyone else have other ridiculous / irritating Luton banter techniques from school?

04.12.2024 19:49 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

πŸ˜‚ I invented something called Guentchev’s Law at school

When he played for Bulgaria in the semi final of the World Cup I argued this placed him in the top 44 players in the world and thus Luton had the best player in Division One as it was then

It stumped my mates completely and utterly

04.12.2024 19:49 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I say there is no excuse not to vote these days. So if there is going to be PR, everyone has to vote - even if it is to say β€œI don’t care” - but everyone has to vote

04.12.2024 15:25 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Staff receiving tax credits could easily be identified through personal tax codes

The level of corporation tax relief on wages could be restricted by value of credits given

Encourages fairer wages, reduces subsidies for profitable business & burden on the taxpayer.

@libdems.org.uk

03.12.2024 20:45 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Why should large employers receive tax relief at 25% on salaries / wages paid to staff that are so low the taxpayer has to top them up with tax credits?

It’s an obvious absurdity. A double dip. Second bite of the cherry.

At a time when the benefits bill is higher than ever

How could we fix it?

03.12.2024 20:45 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

The Gregg Wallace affair illustrates that populism is not just a right wing phenomenon

02.12.2024 20:12 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Please add me πŸ‘πŸ»
Cheers

02.12.2024 19:52 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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