Budget 2017 Wish List

Jezza99

Getting a bit off topic, but developers will always do everything they can to minimise the number of "affordable" units within a development. Why wouldn't they, there's less profit per unit.

Plus the people spending big bucks don't want the tone of the area bringing down.

nheather

Not off topic at all - Hammond has announced 300,000 new houses per year as part of the budget.

These houses will be built by developers.

As you point out developers will maximise their profits and take every advantage they can over the councils' inexperierienced commercial and legal teams.

If left to their own devices this will be 250,000 houses that the needy cannot afford and a crippled infrastructure.

Cheers,

Nigel

Bl4ckGryph0n

So people like me who have lived here for more than twenty years and paid more taxes in the U.K. than all of those 13M British citizens who do not reside in the U.K. combined, should not be eligible?

Pacifico

No taxation without representation..

Ruperts slippers

A strategy for the young, rather than 'just' university, there needs to be room for apprenticeships, technical colleges and then uni, a progressive ladder of education and attainment structure which will benefit both parties, employer and employee, with obvious benefits to society. Not everyone has the motivation or ability to take on a university education, which at the moment is over funded when compared with other educational, training routes for the young.

A focus on the family structure, the benefits system acts as a wealth redistribution tool while also compensating families that breakdown. A fully transferable tax allowance for couples with children would act as an economic incentive to encourage stability as well as decreasing the tax burden on families, may well have an effect on the benefits system too.
http://mothersathomematter.co.uk/wpmahm/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/The_Case_for_Transferable_Allowances_-_The_Fiscal_Fairness_Perspective_14_March.pdf

EarthRod

There are a few ways of applying for citizenship, I think naturalisation is the most popular if permitted to live in the UK permanently.

If it's your choice not to apply for British citizenship after all those years living in the UK then so be it - we make choices and live by them.

Bl4ckGryph0n

So that is a no then. For you it’s about being British and you happily provide that to 13M people who don’t live here, don’t pay in a penny, but because they are a citizen they should get it for free. And you are happy to pay for that?

I just find it fascinating as it is a “policy” suggested by yourself, and I wonder why you would think it is reasonable to offer that to so many people whilst you are paying for it.

I don’t think that is reasonable at all.

EarthRod

If all 13 million expats living overseas suddenly decide to apply for higher education in the UK then I agree there might be a problem (sorry - a challenge).

Strange that never happened before fees were introduced in the 1990s, they were free before then.

domtheone

Anybody watching/listening?

Just reading the BBC feed.   Zzz so far, unless i've missed something.

Philly112

I'm sure the 2018/19 and 2019/20 tax free allowances were planned to rise to £12000 and £12500 respectively (from previous George Osbourne budgets). So announcing 2018 as increasing to £11850 is actually a cut on what was planned. I'm not sure if anything was said about the following year, I just got this from the BBC website.