Newsgroup: it.politica
Titolo: Budget 2002

La finanziaria inglese del 2002...
presentata oggi.
The main points of Chancellor Gordon Brown's 2002 Budget
Tax 
*    1p in the pound increase in National Insurance contributions on
earnings above £4,615
*    Freeze on road tax
*    Freeze on petrol duty
*    6p on a packet of 20 cigarettes
*    Freeze on beer, spirits and wine duty
*    Duty halved for small brewers - equivalent of 14p off a pint in time
for this summer's World Cup
*    Increase in tax on alcopops to the same rate as spirits
*    Bingo exempted from tax
Health spending 
*    43% rise in NHS spending over next five years - equivalent of £40bn
*    Health spending to increase by 7.4% a year
*    Extra £1bn in 2002/3 for NHS through cash savings elsewhere
*    Commitment to continue funding NHS out of general taxation
*    Social insurance and other alternative methods of funding ruled out
NHS reform 
*    Annual report to parliament by independent NHS auditor, for the first
time
*    Local reports showing how health money has been spent
*    More choice for patients
*    New financial incentives for hospitals to improve performance
Education 
*    Direct payments to secondary schools to go up to £114,000 this year
*    Direct payments to primary schools to go up to £39,300 this year
Crime 
*    £280m extra for fight against crime
Families 
*    £2.5bn extra for working families
*    New Child Tax Credit will be available right up the income scale
*    It will come into effect in 2003
*    Families with annual incomes of £58,000 or below will receive help
*    For the first year of a child's life families earning up to £66,000
will also receive help
*    Child credit will increase in line with earnings for rest of parliament
*    Parents will receive £54.25 a week for the first child and £92.75 for
two child family
*    Families with two children earning up to £35,000 to get up to £50 a
week to help with childcare costs
Single working people and the disabled
*    Working Families Tax Credit extended to single people
*    This means tax credits for couples without children
*    Working single parents to be guaranteed £179 a week and extra help with
childcare
*    Minimum income for working families of £237 a week
*    Working disabled single people guaranteed £194 a week
Pensions 
*    Basic state pension increased by £3 a week for single OAPs and £4.80
for couples
Five million pensioners to gain from Pension Credit of about £400 a year
*    Elderly taxpayers will be able to set the first £6,010 of income
against tax, and £6,740 if 75 or over
Other measures 
*    Tax breaks for amateur sports clubs
*    Review of tax rules for foreign domiciled individuals living in the UK
*    Tax avoidance loopholes on stamp duty closed
*    Tax royalty on North Sea Oil to be abolished
*    Better capital allowances for oil industry accompanied by a 10%
increase in tax on profits to 40%
The unemployed 
*    New measures to help long-term unemployed
*    Extending "step up" scheme for unemployed
The environment 
*    Road tax cut for least polluting cars and motorbikes
*    Cut of £55 in licence fee for least polluting vans
*    Green power stations exempted from climate change levy
Business 
*    Small companies tax rate cut from 20p to 19p with immediate effect
*    Corporation tax starting rate cut for small firms with profits of less
than £10,000 from 10p to zero
*    From April Capital Gains Tax to be cut from 20% to 10% for business
assets held for one year or more and to 10% for assets held for more than
two years 
*    Extra £30m for small firms' training needs
*    New cash to help small firms get online
*    Automatic relief for VAT on bad debts, for small firms
*    Automatic fines for late VAT payment abolished for 700,000 small firms
*    Plan to extend flat rate VAT to more small firms from next April
*    
*    New R&D tax credit for large firms set at 25% - £400m a year
*    The economy 
*    Extra £4bn for public spending next year
*    Debt interest will fall to £21bn this year, 2% of national income
*    GDP growth in 2004 predicted to be between 2.5% to 3%
*    GDP growth in 2003 predicted to be between 3% and 3.5%
*    GDP growth predicted to be between 2 and 2.5% this year
*    UK economy grew by 2.2% in 2001, slightly below the chancellor's
forecast

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B8E3A5F2.EF7F%maxy...@tiscali.co.uk
, Switters at
maxy...@tiscali.co.uk
 wrote on 17/4/02 10:21 pm:
Ha detto che il sistema medico opsedaliero l'assistenza e la struttura tuuta
della previdenza sociale e` per la famiglia e va dal bambino ai pensionati
ed e` testualmente da lui detto: La Migliore del Mondo
Io conoscendo il programma di AdoremusComputerLuceInTeraStellare non sapendo
come stiano inguaiati gli altri paesi, gli credo e gli faccio le mie
congratulazioni.
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Face & Bene
rimuda:SirePope
da: Dialogo con Assurdo - gli Eserciti nella Polvere
Prima del dopoguera gli individui marciavano stando in fila, talvolta
lunghe e serrate, taluni stanchi giocoforza si trovavano in coda,
dallo sbriciolamento d'essa una divisa smessa, venne espulsa in panchina.

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B8E3B658.F45A%maxy...@tiscali.co.uk
, Switters at
maxy...@tiscali.co.uk
 wrote on 17/4/02 11:31 pm:
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Io fui sorpreso all'inizio
anche se lo standard e` elevato prima lo era di piu`
tu sei ricco di entusiasmo perche` sei appena da due anni e finora sei stato
molto preso dall'impostare la tua attivita` e faresti bene ad ingrandirla
perche` qua si puo` lavorare serenamente! - Ora che e` pianificata ti stai
guardando meglio in giro e scopri sempre piu` fatti positivi
io invece, zoccolone vecchio, pure qua vedo che il passaggio ad
AdoremusComputerLuceInTeraStellare al servizio di Sua Maesta La Regina
sarebbe perfetto!
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:)))
Sai che ho trovato un biglietto per l'Arsenal per domenica? senza lacun
sovraprezzo... solo un signore che domenica deve andare fuori citta' e non
puo' andarci lui... saro' solo...ma con altri 40.000 fantastici tifosi.
Tanto allo stadio e' perfetto, i trasporti pure, L'Inghilterra funziona...
Ciao
Massimo

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B8E43E25.F68E%maxy...@tiscali.co.uk
, Switters at
maxy...@tiscali.co.uk
 wrote on 18/4/02 9:11 am:
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Proprio stamane ho ricevuto la nuova bolletta
2 pounds in piu` per telefono e 2 per internet ...
la sentiro` per telefono
buon divertimento!
e vinca il migliore
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 Tanto allo stadio e' perfetto, i trasporti pure, L'Inghilterra funziona...
Non credevo che esistesse un altro Paese chiamato Inghilterra - eppure tu 
evidentemente vivi in una nazione diversa da quella in cui vivo io, in cui 
la sanita' e i treni sono al disastro...
Anch'io sono contento della finanziaria di Brown, ma solo perche' spero che 
riesca a risollevare la situazione di un paio di settori che al momento 
paiono al disastro.
Eugenio
-- 
A Puritan is someone who is deathly afraid that someone, somewhere, is
having fun.