Non-motoring > Budget calculator	Miscellaneous
Thread Author: Crankcase	Replies: 43

New Wed 20 Mar 13 15:54   Budget calculator - Crankcase

Usually a budget calculator pops up pretty well at the moment of the budget somewhere, but I can't find one this year. Anyone got a link to anything? Having said that, as best as can tell I will be a tiny bit better off this year and a bit worse off next and onwards. Which I suppose is par for the course in these apparently straitened times. Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 20 Mar 13 16:16   Budget calculator - Robin O'Reliant

Anyone know what's happening with the tax on health foods? I can barely afford to keep buying my life enhancing Virginia Tobacco as it is. Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 20 Mar 13 16:53   Budget calculator - Stuu

www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-17442946 Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 20 Mar 13 17:13   Budget calculator - R.P.

About 250 pounds a year better off... Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 20 Mar 13 17:21   Budget calculator - madf

Better off... by three jeroboams.. Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 20 Mar 13 17:23   Budget calculator - R.P.

Oh and possibly a pay rise to boot. New job a strong possibility... Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 20 Mar 13 20:52   Budget calculator - Bromptonaut

>> Oh and possibly a pay rise to boot. New job a strong possibility... CAB booming or moving on? Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 20 Mar 13 20:54   Budget calculator - Runfer D'Hills

I reckon he's had his scooter fixed and is going to get into the pizza game... :-) Reply to this message | Report message       3

New Wed 20 Mar 13 23:08   Budget calculator - bathtub tom

Nah, not pizza, Bara Lawr up there. ;>) Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 20 Mar 13 17:23   Budget calculator - DP

£340 better off. A total crock of course, given what is likely to happen to energy prices, food prices, and all the other things that matter, assuming they follow the same pattern as last year. Still, at least I got a 1.7% pay rise! :-) Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 20 Mar 13 17:42   Budget calculator - Dutchie

Of course prices will follow the same pattern,the only way is up. Not bad if you are a miljonair do, about 40 grand pay rise. Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 20 Mar 13 18:41   Budget calculator - Skip

£262 better off apparently. Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 20 Mar 13 18:47   Budget calculator - zookeeper

im about 400 drachma worse off Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 20 Mar 13 18:51   Budget calculator - Westpig

£247 better off......but....I owe the tax man £307 from last year apparently....so easy come easy go. Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 20 Mar 13 19:00   Budget calculator - Robin O'Reliant

£185 better off. Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 20 Mar 13 19:26   Budget calculator - -

£238 better off apparently. Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 20 Mar 13 19:58   Budget calculator - Kevin

Wow! I like that calculator. The more beer I drink the better off I am. Reply to this message | Report message

New Thu 21 Mar 13 10:01   Budget calculator - Crankcase

£452 better off, apparently. I'd be surprised. Reply to this message | Report message

New Thu 21 Mar 13 10:28   Budget calculator - VxFan

£263 better off. I'll beleive it when I see it. Reply to this message | Report message

New Thu 21 Mar 13 18:10   Budget calculator - mikeyb

>> Wow! I like that calculator. >> >> The more beer I drink the better off I am. >> Think of it as buy 350 pints, get one free! Reply to this message | Report message

New Thu 21 Mar 13 12:45   Budget calculator - L'escargot

£100 better off. How come everyone else will benefit more than me? Last edited by: L'escargot on Thu 21 Mar 13 at 12:47 Reply to this message | Report message

New Thu 21 Mar 13 12:54   Budget calculator - crocks

Not quite everyone. I'm going to be £11.27 worse off. They clearly don't want my vote. Reply to this message | Report message

New Thu 21 Mar 13 13:10   Budget calculator - No FM2R

How strange. I am sure that if the budget calculator had told people that they would be £200 worse off then they would have accepted it as gospel. Reply to this message | Report message

New Thu 21 Mar 13 13:25   Budget calculator - CGNorwich

Must be the five cases of wine you are consuming each week. :-) Reply to this message | Report message

New Thu 21 Mar 13 13:34   Budget calculator - RattleandSmoke

I am £8 a better off a yeah, most due to the savings in beer tax. Reply to this message | Report message

New Thu 21 Mar 13 13:40   Budget calculator - Cliff Pope

£278 better off. Then I remembered that the Triumph has no road tax, and redid the calculation. Now I am only £230 better off. How can saving £265 in road tax make me £48 worse off? Reply to this message | Report message

New Thu 21 Mar 13 13:43   Budget calculator - Crankcase

Mine is entirely due to income tax changes - nothing else on there is relevant to us. Reply to this message | Report message

New Thu 21 Mar 13 13:45   Budget calculator - madf

>> Mine is entirely due to income tax changes - nothing else on there is relevant >> to us. >> You drink no spirits? Reply to this message | Report message

New Thu 21 Mar 13 13:49   Budget calculator - Crankcase

Goodness me no. Reply to this message | Report message

New Thu 21 Mar 13 13:52   Budget calculator - Bromptonaut

About £600 better off between SWM and I but not sure I beleive it. Reply to this message | Report message

New Thu 21 Mar 13 13:55   Budget calculator - TheManWithNoName

Aaww crap! It's telling me I owe HM Government £527 ;-) Reply to this message | Report message

New Thu 21 Mar 13 13:55   Budget calculator - Crankcase

Yes, good point - lest it look like I'm some kind of plutocrat I should say mine was between two of us, not just me! Last edited by: Crankcase on Thu 21 Mar 13 at 13:55 Reply to this message | Report message

New Thu 21 Mar 13 14:03   Budget calculator - Dog

>>About £600 better off between SWM and I but not sure I beleive it. That's the 2nd time today I've seen believe spelt incorrectly, what's gorn wrong with edumacation I wonder! Reply to this message | Report message

New Thu 21 Mar 13 14:12   Budget calculator - Cliff Pope

Motoring-related: SORN to become continuous instead of annual renewal. Historic Vehicle status advanced one year to 1973. Reply to this message | Report message

New Thu 21 Mar 13 14:27   Budget calculator - bathtub tom

>>Historic Vehicle status advanced one year to 1973. The Kia's almost halfway there! ;>) Reply to this message | Report message

New Thu 21 Mar 13 14:14   Budget calculator - Bromptonaut

>> >>About £600 better off between SWM and I but not sure I beleive it. >> >> That's the 2nd time today I've seen believe spelt incorrectly, what's gorn wrong with edumacation >> I wonder! My spelling is OK, it's my typing that's giving trouble. Reply to this message | Report message

New Thu 21 Mar 13 14:42   Budget calculator - madf

>> >> My spelling is OK, it's my typing that's giving trouble. >> You and me both. "Teh" instead of "the" is commonplace. Reply to this message | Report message

New Thu 21 Mar 13 18:13   Budget calculator - mikeyb

Apparently me the the mrs will be £540 better off. looking forward to that extra tenner a week....... Reply to this message | Report message

New Fri 22 Mar 13 08:28   Budget calculator - Cliff Pope

Can someone explain the purpose of the reduction in beer tax? There has been a long debate about whether to increase the price of booze to curb binge drinking. So he compromises by making it cheaper. Reply to this message | Report message

New Fri 22 Mar 13 08:34   Budget calculator - Roger.

A penny a pint is - pardon the expression - a drop in the bucket! The duty on wine IS up though Is this reverse class warfare? (Only joking). Reply to this message | Report message

New Fri 22 Mar 13 08:39   Budget calculator - R.P.

Buy three hundred pints get one free. Reply to this message | Report message

New Fri 22 Mar 13 09:41   Budget calculator - VxFan

>> There has been a long debate about whether to increase the price of booze to curb binge drinking. Wasn't that just for supermarkets / off licences / corner shops, rather than pubs? Reply to this message | Report message

New Fri 22 Mar 13 10:25   Budget calculator - Bromptonaut

>> Wasn't that just for supermarkets / off licences / corner shops, rather than pubs? Ideally the tax would be lower for on sales and higher for stuff to be consumed off the premises. I suspect however that such a process is too difficult to administer, prone to dodging/unintended consequences and likley to put money in pockets of pubcos rather than either landlords or drinkers. Reply to this message | Report message

New Fri 22 Mar 13 12:05   Budget calculator - AshT

According to the calculator the Ash household should be £541 better off. Electric bill hit the doormat today though with an especially heavy thud.... Reply to this message | Report message