Stamp Duty, Sporting Rates, and now Income Tax - when's the SNP going to stop

[willie_gunn]

I really can't see them targeting folk with a holiday house or a couple of let properties as a pension plan, or at least i'd hope not but u never know with that lot() but more so the big boys who own tens or hundreds.

Sadly I find that too much of a gamble.

I'd love to buy a small cottage in Scotland, but at the moment feel the SNP would like nothing more than to penalise absentee English second-home owners.

Instead I'll perhaps looks across the Irish Sea, as being an equal amount Irish as Scots they seem to a have a far more favourable attitude towards "foreign" interlopers, at least to a half-breed mongrel like me

 

[caorach]

As an aside, but it is connected to this in a lot of ways, if there was to be a UK wide independence referendum do you think (say 7 million in Scotland, about 60 million in the rest of the UK) the vote would be to "expel" Scotland from the UK? Do you think such a referendum would excite any interest in England and would there be a big turnout other than in Scotland?

I should add, as this is a theoretical question and so I can set the rules, that if it was decided Scotland would go then all money to Scotland would stop immediately and Scotland would be required to pay for the use of infrastructure (roads, hospitals etc.) which were deemed not to have been completely paid for by the Scottish tax payer when built - i.e. say the new Queen Elizabeth University Hospital was deemed to have been 75% funded by money raised from outwith Scotland then Scotland would have to pay to buy 75% of the hospital from the UK tax payer, or lease it.

 

[McKenzie]

Can you point me in the direction of any information about renting out your home & tenants being able to purchase (seize) it? Surely that threat would just completely undermine the rental market?

Considering our options just now & renting out our home whilst working elsewhere was one of the options. As house prices in scotland are so depressed at present (apart from Edinburgh) selling would be a painful option.

So the SNP has chosen not to raise tax rates, but it's not raising the Tax thresholds by any more than the rate of inflation so any body in Scotland earning more than £43,430 will be paying more tax than their English counterparts whose threshold will be £45,000. Now £43,430 is not exactly a high income these days and suspect many on the SD are there or there abouts, and certainly many that are amateurs stalkers or enjoy game shooting.

So we are now getting hammered not only when we try to move house - anything more than a £325,000 property now attracts stamp duty of 10% in the peoples republic and anything over £750,000 is 12% - and no you don't get very much for £325,000 in Scotland any more.

Our shooting is about to get another 20 or 30% added onto it - if you are a sporting tenant, which us what most of us are or will be.

If you want to sink a mooring for a boat, or rent one the Crown Estate - which in Scotland is now part of the Scottish Government will charge an extra £80 per annum for the privilege.

Because the SNP have put a torpedo through the Scottish economy - and yes a lot of oil jobs have gone because of the low oil price, but most oil companies have chosen to makes the cuts in Aberdeen rather than elsewhere (I wonder why) - most of us spend most of time earning money elsewhere and now those of us who are actually contributing something are just getting squeezed even more.

And it has just put another obstacle in the way of attracting and keeping good talent in the country.

Oh and because of the land reform act - if you choose to rent out your property your tenants can take it off you.

England will have a major immigrant problem as yet more of the working class - plenty earning more than £40,000 hitch up the ox wagons and head southwards permanently.

When will people wake up and realise the damage that is being caused.

 

[Wingy]

Well I love Scotland and it was always my retirement plan, but watching how things are going at the minute I can't see it happening for a couple of reasons.
Being a public sector worker the government (England) have screwed over my pension &
The government (Scotland) are screwing over the country.
Well I have 7 years to decide
Wingy

 

[Druid]

Well I love Scotland and it was always my retirement plan, but watching how things are going at the minute I can't see it happening for a couple of reasons.
Being a public sector worker the government (England) have screwed over my pension &
The government (Scotland) are screwing over the country.
Well I have 7 years to decide
Wingy

Trust me they have screwed up private pensions royally! There has been a lot of pulling up the drawbridge behind themselves when you look how future pensions for those that are still currently working, have been treated by those in power.

 

[willie_gunn]

Being a public sector worker the government (England) have screwed over my pension &
The government (Scotland) are screwing over the country.

As Druid says, pensions have been royally screwed for everyone.

According to independent analysis, at just shy of £1.5 trillion the public sector pension liability is the biggest single liability on the government's balance sheet, equivalent to 81% of our GDP or roughly £55,000 per household. It is hard to see how this can be sustained, given our population demographics.

When it comes to private pensions, from Gordon Brown's raid in 1997 to George Osborne's so called reforms, successive governments now view pension contributions as "the gift that keeps on giving" when it comes to raising money.

So whilst on the one hand MP's - who, of course, enjoy a very generous final-salary pension scheme of their own - can carp on about how we have to save for the future, on the other they seem to do everything within their power to dis-incentivise people from saving for old age.

Is it any wonder that many are now of the opinion that they should "hang saving for retirement, spend it all today and let the future become the State's problem".

 

[old man]

We maybe need to appreciate that Countries are just mere playgrounds with benefits to most Politicians?

Being totally insulated from reality as they are and mostly devoid of common sense, why do we continue to wonder at the utter contempt they feel for us?

I surmise another inflation busting pay rise will give them lots of New year cheer?

Hey Ho, they're all we've got.

 

[enfieldspares]

Can you point me in the direction of any information about renting out your home & tenants being able to purchase (seize) it?

Thatcher did it with "Right To Buy" of council houses. It would take only a re-visiting of that legislation to amend it to give a right to buy of ALL rented accomodation including private rented. The law already exists. It needs only to have its remit extended.

 

[Druid]

Thatcher did it with "Right To Buy" of council houses. It would take only a re-visiting of that legislation to amend it to give a right to buy of ALL rented accomodation including private rented. The law already exists. It needs only to have its remit extended.

nope,the right to buy scheme was scrapped in scotland this year

The right to buy in Scotland ended on 1 August 2016. If you had the right to buy your home, you could exercise your right to buy if the application was made before 1 August 2016. The purchase does not need to be completed before this date.

so it looks like they wish to make private property into property of the state and stop property of the state becoming private property.
its going like communist russia! what the hell do the scottish people think they are actually voting for electing this mob???

 

[slider]

nope,the right to buy scheme was scrapped in scotland this year

its going like communist russia! what the hell do the scottish people think they are actually voting for electing this mob???

Brainwashed by Braveheart and Bullsh!t

and, unfortunately, lack of any credible opposition. Scotland has been traditionally Labour, with a smattering of Lib dems. Both are currently unelectable.