Gordon Brown’s New Still Tax

“FAMILIES’ £800 BILL JUST TO STAND STILL.”

The Mail’s front-page headline is grist to the mill of they who warned us against Gordon Brown’s love of stealth taxes.

The Queen’s guard at Buckingham Palace stand still. Are they exempt? Or is it one Still Tax for all?

And how still is still? Is the Government engaged in a giant game of Dead Lions, walking among us looking for signs of life to tax?

If you remain still, you must pay. If you remain too still you are most likely dead, which leads us to think that this new Still Tax is a likely replacement to Inheritance Tax. In which case, is the £800 a one-off payment, or is the Still Tax calculated each year, meaning that the longer you are dead the more you pay?

Reading on, the Mail says the Still Tax is brought on by the high cost of heating, petrol and mortgages. You might be better off dead.

But, then, they get you there as well…

Anorak

Posted: 10th, March 2008 | In: Gordon Brown, Labour Party, Money, Politicians, Tabloids Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed: RSS 2.0 | TrackBack | Permalink