Owning your own home

Fuck, I'd have saved close to £4,000.

How the fuck can we afford to bend over the unemployed, mentally ill, public service, low paid private sector workers etc., and then give these kind of breaks to people in a position to buy a house?

This government.

I can't believe George Osborne is going to be the reason

Because it means you might end up voting the evil self-serving cunt back into power in the next election?

no amount of saving would make me do that.

#GreensFTW

I'll take his stamp duty cut, but voting for the Tories?! I'd rather eat shit out of the Bullingdon Club toilets.

I don't understand how he thinks a decently off professional London couple need a tax break in a time when we're constantly told we need austerity. So I'm giving the few grand we're saving to Class War*.

*I am doing no such thing.

I think the idea is that it's revenue-neutral, given that he's raising more at the top end. It's a fair point though.

eat shit out of the Bullingdon Club toilets

It's been rolled in glitter to make it more palatable for the lumpen proletariat.

What a shitter, handed over near 10k last month

Not for me, will double my SD

Ignore me, its 2% on the portion from £125k up to our buy price.

Saves me £450

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha, My first job out of university was for a housebuilder. It was a real eye opener.

Where in plumstead?

But it will affect the interest rate and most will expect you to enfranchise.

Fuck it. I'm currently buying a house at £2.5m* and I've now got to find £215k tax instead of £175k.

Last straw Gideon, I'm definitely voting Green now*.

*I am doing no such thing.

Just off the High Road,

and going on I'm a Celebrity.. next year

I don't understand how he thinks a decently off professional London couple need a tax break in a time when we're constantly told we need austerity. So I'm giving the few grand we're saving to Class War*.

*I am doing no such thing.

^This, in spades - for fucks sake, stop giving me (and people like me) tax breaks that we don't fucking need whilst starving the poor and butt-fucking the NHS because there's no fucking money to pay for it!

Total, utter, unredeemable cunts.

I raise you childcare tax breaks for couples earning less than £300k per year. Presumably because those on £295k per year need all the help they can get.

It's staggering, my work place recently started a contributory pension scheme where they match your sum up to a certain percentage of your salary.

So far so good - but then the financial adviser guy said that I, as a higher rate tax payer, got additional tax relief that those on lower incomes didn't get, and wasn't that nice.

I sat there thinking "hang on, this is, surely, the wrong way round".

Anyway, my £140/month turns into more than £400 via magic - and the front page of the Indy this morning said that the Tories were probably going to have to start seriously cutting into the NHS now - as what they've done so far has been just a bit of a trim.

Fuck it. I'm currently buying a house at £2.5m* and I've now got to find £215k tax instead of £175k.

Not the case (if you were). Those currently buying a house get to choose which set of rules they wish to work under, provided you have exchanged by today (4 Dec 2014) but not yet completed.

See the chart and text in section 1.208 here:

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/382327/44695_Accessible.pdf

going by the chart, the old rules are only really better once you get to around the £1m mark.

Why will the new SDLT push up prices in the low end? I don't get it.

Will sellers add £2k on to the price to make up the difference?

Like any tax, the reduction will effectively be shared between buyers and sellers.

Double post

I'm pumping mine to the max as I fully expect state benefits will be means-tested or non-existent by the time retirement comes around, and I'll need to afford to emigrate to a country with a better health system.