Sentences with phrase «pasty taxes»

Pasty taxes, granny taxes and the reduction of the top rate of income tax have also hurt the government.

George Osborne was almost brought down by the pasty tax — I doubt he saw that coming.

The bad news is it sounds like a pasty tax waiting to happen.

Added to this was the perennial non-stories of a «granny tax», a «pasty tax» and a «caravan tax».

Budgets have turned into raffles when major U-turns on everything from tax credits and pension relief, disability payments and police cuts, and of course the crumbling of the notorious pasty tax, mean a group of angry MPs, led by disrespectful rebels in the Tory ranks, will pick big ticket items and batter a once unassailable Chancellor into another humiliating change of direction.

[69] The «pasty tax» proposal was later withdrawn in what was seen as a political «U-turn», [70] as were proposals to cut tax relief on charitable donations and to tax static caravans.

Suddenly, the pasty tax was a class issue.

The government is staging a humiliating U-turn on the pasty tax after encountering widespread opposition to the plan.

The Conservatives lost 405 councillors in local elections across England, Wales and Scotland last Thursday, following weeks of negative headlines for the government about the «pasty tax», the «granny tax» and the 50p tax cut for Britain's richest.

Lloyd's equivalent of the pasty tax had been the introduction of a tax on sweets and confectionery, which the opposition and press had painted as a raid on children's pocket money.

That was the year of the «omnishambles» Budget, when he was forced into U-turns on the charity tax, pasty tax and caravan tax.

On the pasty tax, 14 coalition MPs - nine Tories and five Liberal Democrats — rebelled.

Could this be a deliberate evocation of the chancellor's botched «pasty tax» budget of 2012?

At the time I thought Mann was just engaging in rather empty grandstanding, but he managed to get Osborne branded as a modern - day Marie Antoinette in a tabloid splash and he contributed to establishing the pasty tax as one of the coalition's worst policy disasters, and so he was clearly onto something.

After the disasters of Mr Osborne's earlier «pasty tax» Budget, this was a genuine attempt to be more in tune with ordinary voters.

«These U-turns, a few weeks after ministers were defending the pasty tax and caravan tax, show just how ill thought - through it was and how out of touch David Cameron and George Osborne are.

It is the latest climbdown for the Government after a series of proposals in the Budget, including a pasty tax, were also abandoned.

Not exact matches

Being a Brit, I love my pasties, but between paleo eating and our Chancellor taxing the heck out of cooked food, I'm left over here with no pasties and feeling pretty glum about not having one.

I am still waiting for someone, anyone, to explain why taxing pasties in the way other hot foods are taxed is a bad thing, which seems to be the level of debate which politicians think the public understand.»

Cameron and his top team have now been through the heat of a Budget firestorm, with rows over VAT on pasties, the «granny tax», a political funding scandal and, most recently, a war over email snooping.

The report from the influential group of MPs comes after weeks of negative headlines, including rows over the 50p top rate of income tax and new financial burdens on pasties, grannies and philanthropy.

Twitter loves controversy, and this week there was no shortage (pardon the pun) of things to complain about — tax on pasties, a panic about fuel, and George Galloway.

Even more important than the oggie (pasty) tax U-turn.

Think pasties, grannies and the 50p top rate of tax.

... But that didn't stop us giving them a kicking when they tried to tax working people's pasties.

The rows over the «granny» and «pasty» taxes have been damaging precisely because they convey the impression that the Government has lost its grip.

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And in 2012 Mr Osborne had to rewrite large parts of his Budget amid furious opposition to a raft of new taxes on everything from pasties to caravans.