Government wins 10p tax vote

Meg

Mandy again. I suppose threats of repayment of tax = IMMEDIATE ELECTION = COLLECT P45, 11 months earlier than planned.

Jim

Labour MP's must be the last people in the country who still believe the government. Rope anyone?

Meg

To be less flippant (although I believe to be accurate) than my earlier comment, this country has soldiers who fight and die for this country and it's democracy. However, we appear to have MPs who weigh up the status of their P45 before voting for what is the right thing for this same country. They should be ashamed, and so should a country who allows them to do so.

mat

GB and Treasury claimed that no-one would be worse off after some adjustments were made to 10%. Now he's bragging that the poorest ARE poorer despite the changes, but "only by less than a pound a week" - so that's alright then :)

Ray

"If the amendment passed all income taxes collected this tax year would have to be repaid".

Please, please, Jacqui, Hazel and Elliott; we'd have let you keep all your second home allowances, capital gains tax dodges and phantom mortgages if you had only voted for this one!

Flemingcrag

Just goes to show you, this bunch of Labour MPs must be the thickest on record. Such bewildering blind trust, when the rest of the Country has tumbled to the fact that Brown and his Cabinet are habitual liars they still believe them.
With champions like these bunch of wimps the poor can only get poorer.
Vote Labour to stay poor whilst Bankers use every tax dodge in the book to become ever richer...Anyone for a bonus???

Paul

...and lots of the poorest people are still screwed.

Treasury Financial Secretary Stephen Timms warned the move would plunge the government's finances into "chaos" by preventing it from collecting income tax this year and having to repay that already collected.

Aren't the country's finances f***ed anyway?

TrevorsDen

Its good to see the poorest in the country are paying the bonuses of the richest bankers.

A lovely stick to beat the labour heartlands with at the election. Brown has deliberately made the poorEST poorER.

Come on Frank - its not far, cross the floor.

Chris lancashire

Absolute rubbish, this govt is now well versed in retrospective legislation - so even if the treat on income tax were true it could easily be overcome by a quick retro amendment to the Finance Bill.

Funny thing politics eh? Leftie Labour votes to take money off the poor; rightie Tories and nowhere Libs vote to give it back.

Roy

This is a despicable "two fingers" from Labour MPs to their poorest taxpayers. Most of them weren't even in the house to hear the arguments. Frank Field must despair at them.