cashinmattress Posted June 26, 2009 Share Posted June 26, 2009 (edited) No winners with new bingo tax Whichever way you look at it, it just doesn’t add up. While we’re handing out billions to failed banks and spending millions on MPs expenses, a scheme to raise taxes on bingo is set to be introduced next month.The Government plans to increase the “profit tax†on bingo businesses from 15 to 22 percent. The amount to be raised is a tiny amount in the grand scheme of national finances, but any increase is likely to have a crippling effect on the industry. Bingo is not a pastime that drives its gamers to drink, drugs or robbery. Despite ad campaigns to make bingo trendy and more appealing to a younger audience, most people who go are elderly. For them it is a social event, not a chance to make money. For many, it is their event of the week and the only time when they get to go out and meet other people, have a chat and a laugh. Actually winning any sort of prize is a second, third or fourth thought for the majority who go for the companionship, ‘the craic’. But the new tax increase is likely to force many small bingo halls out of business – leaving thousands of people without their nights out and a chance to socialise and the Government collecting no tax at all from them. Who’s the winner there? What a crock of shite. Let the pensioners have their bingo and their nights out FFS! Tax the bloody banks, tax the politicians, tax the bureaucrats, tax the corporations...why does it always have to be those with the least ability to fend for themselves? Meh! Edited June 26, 2009 by cashinmattress Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dunks Posted June 26, 2009 Share Posted June 26, 2009 I know a couple that have already closed due to the smoking ban..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RufflesTheGuineaPig Posted June 26, 2009 Share Posted June 26, 2009 It's a profit tax, there it will not push them out of business. The MD will just pay himself more so the company makes less profit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KingBingo Posted June 26, 2009 Share Posted June 26, 2009 Bingo Tax, oh no! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hedgefunded Posted June 26, 2009 Share Posted June 26, 2009 From 'Young and Keen' up to 'Two Little Ducks'. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest happy? Posted June 26, 2009 Share Posted June 26, 2009 (edited) No winners with new bingo taxWhat a crock of shite. Let the pensioners have their bingo and their nights out FFS! Tax the bloody banks, tax the politicians, tax the bureaucrats, tax the corporations...why does it always have to be those with the least ability to fend for themselves? Meh! Bingo in Carlisle - now there's a good night out. Do you live nearby, or trawl the internet for sad, local rags? They have a letters page too - pound to a penny it's all about dogsh1t and dumped cars. Edited June 26, 2009 by happy? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest happy? Posted June 26, 2009 Share Posted June 26, 2009 But what did he do? <h1 class="lead">Woman saw man committing sex act while driving on M6 in Cumbria</h1> Last updated 12:18, Monday, 22 June 2009 A female lorry driver had nightmares after seeing a motorist committing a sex act while driving on the M6, a court heard. Timothy Astall, 38, was ordered to sign the sex offenders’ register and undergo counselling by Eden magistrates, in Penrith. He was found guilty of committing the act while driving in the middle lane of the motorway on November 18 last year. Adrienne Harris, prosecuting, said the dad-of-two, from Crewe, in Cheshire, had continued even after being spotted. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Spart Posted June 26, 2009 Share Posted June 26, 2009 I was wondering what the link was to HPC specifically - then I realised : Aren't winners upposed to call out "House!". I guess though its a sign of the government softening up the public for the tax tsunami to come. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest tbatst2000 Posted June 26, 2009 Share Posted June 26, 2009 This government would send your grandparents down the saltmines if they thought it would buy them another day in power. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cogs Posted June 26, 2009 Share Posted June 26, 2009 I think he's on the sex offenders register for having a w^nk. Makes a mockery of the whole thing. What about that bloke who got busted for having a ***** in a hotel room. With the door closed. I think he'd somehow involved a bike in it (how?) but still, more a cycle of self-abuse than abuse of a cycle. He wound up on the sex offender's register as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eightiesgirly Posted June 26, 2009 Share Posted June 26, 2009 I think he's on the sex offenders register for having a w^nk. Makes a mockery of the whole thing. No mention of an umbrella in the article? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
athe Posted June 27, 2009 Share Posted June 27, 2009 I would definitely be in favour of a 'bingo wings' tax Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manterik Posted June 27, 2009 Share Posted June 27, 2009 What about that bloke who got busted for having a ***** in a hotel room. With the door closed.I think he'd somehow involved a bike in it (how?) but still, more a cycle of self-abuse than abuse of a cycle. He wound up on the sex offender's register as well. This chap. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/156...e-in-court.html Astonishing decision really. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiger Woods? Posted June 27, 2009 Share Posted June 27, 2009 This chap.http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/156...e-in-court.html Astonishing decision really. Nothing astonished me anymore...ffs, they guy was in HIS hotel room. The real issue here is whether the bike gave its consent. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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