on the plus side WOOOHOOO pay day
on the massively minus side, i seem to be £400 down on last month - and it seems to have gone on something horrendous called "income tax". why has this happened to me? has there been some vile new tax change i have been oblivious to???
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 20 Jan 2011, 11:02, 3 replies, latest was 15 years ago)

I know someone who might be able to answer that for you.

( girlinthehole, Thu 20 Jan 2011, 11:04, Reply)

yeah
but where is he when you need him, eh? men!
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 20 Jan 2011, 11:17, Reply)

£400
Is probably enough to buy a Muslim a laptop with an Arabic keyboard.

It's all your fault.
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Thu 20 Jan 2011, 11:04, Reply)

Lol

( girlinthehole, Thu 20 Jan 2011, 11:05, Reply)

Yeah, I had a word with some close friends at the Treasury
had them introduce a special rswipe tax band just for you. Hope you like it, hugs and kisses x ;)
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Thu 20 Jan 2011, 11:08, Reply)

this is outrageous
humph.

and whoever does our payslips calls my pension contribution "pension sacrifice". it sure is.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 20 Jan 2011, 11:17, Reply)

Think of all those disabled black lesbians who can start interpretive theatre groups with your £400, though.
Doesn't it make you weep with happiness?

/Why don't you just not pay into your pension scheme, then? it must be voluntary after all.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Thu 20 Jan 2011, 11:19, Reply)

because my dad told me i should always take up the maximum pension thingy offered
so i just did as i was told.

i don't expect to get a state pension by our generation, i'm living in my pension, basically. done the light fittings, now i just need new carpets, new curtains and new white goods. sigh.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 20 Jan 2011, 11:38, Reply)

depends how much your company are contributing I guess.
Cos that's free money. plus pensions are more or less tax exempt.

But, yeah, I'm with you. I chuck all my spare cash at property.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Thu 20 Jan 2011, 11:40, Reply)

chucking someone else's cash at it is even better
where can i find an obscenely rich husband with no morals or standards?
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 20 Jan 2011, 11:46, Reply)

Wilmslow

( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Thu 20 Jan 2011, 11:53, Reply)

This.
Although the problem with someone else's cash is they generally want it back when they discover you're already married to some accountant off the internet.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Thu 20 Jan 2011, 12:08, Reply)

I don't have a pension
My work don't currently offer one. When I retire (aged 95 the way the government works) I'll spend whatever money I have left, rack up huge debts, have an almighty party then kill myself.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Thu 20 Jan 2011, 11:22, Reply)

I'm going to spend my whole life paying into a fairly generous USS pension scheme
only for the Government to change the rules and take it off me when I retire. I can see no flaws with this at all.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Thu 20 Jan 2011, 11:32, Reply)