2011 Budget

[Bully]

All talk for the upcoming budget here. Hearing rumours about tax benifits for tradies for car allowances . Maybe the labor government is good for something after all...

[Bully]

good to see the upgrade of the pacific highway going ahead....oh i forgot to add


HERE HERE

[Bully]

maybe i heard wrong....watching sky news and they just said tax CUTS to benifits to tradies.....dont understand now

[Jim05]

Just announced cost of asylum seekers and detaining them is up from 260mill last year to 1.6billion this current year

[Bully]

yep...shafted again by a LABOR government. sorry...but F**K i hate wayne swann!!!!

[am Bays]

Yep we've gone back to 2005 when Howard and Costello turned their abck on the middle class battlers who delivered them governemnt four times running.

A freeze on eligibility to Family Tax benefit A and B

Flood levy

ignore the middle class at your peril.

[wycbloods]

yep...shafted again by a LABOR government. sorry...but F**K i hate wayne swann!!!!

How were you shafted by this budget?

[mighty_tiger_79]

anyone do the budget calculator

i got it down to a $10.4 billion deficit

[Bully]

yep...shafted again by a LABOR government. sorry...but F**K i hate wayne swann!!!!

How were you shafted by this budget?

i am a tradesman that drives more then 25,000kms a year. wayne swann annouced cuts to the benefits i get for using my own car. i get less tax back at end of financial year now.....thats how im shafted

[mick]

Are people less than happy withour champions of the working class?

[The Sleeping Giant]

I'm happy with the budget. Has no effect on me at all.

[bulldogproud2]

yep...shafted again by a LABOR government. sorry...but F**K i hate wayne swann!!!!

How were you shafted by this budget?

i am a tradesman that drives more then 25,000kms a year. wayne swann annouced cuts to the benefits i get for using my own car. i get less tax back at end of financial year now.....thats how im shafted

However, don't forget that you can gain a lot through the depreciation changes. Additionally, it was crazy that people received a higher RATE for driving longer distances.

[Bully]

what is it with me and labor governments??? are they just out to get me are they..

[mighty_tiger_79]

my mrs is shafted by the low income scheme of distributing $300 per year into pay - used to get twice sometimes three times that amount at tax time

[Bully]

my mrs is shafted by the low income scheme of distributing $300 per year into pay - used to get twice sometimes three times that amount at tax time

HERE HERE

[mick]

yep...shafted again by a LABOR government. sorry...but F**K i hate wayne swann!!!!

How were you shafted by this budget?

i am a tradesman that drives more then 25,000kms a year. wayne swann annouced cuts to the benefits i get for using my own car. i get less tax back at end of financial year now.....thats how im shafted

However, don't forget that you can gain a lot through the depreciation changes. Additionally, it was crazy that people received a higher RATE for driving longer distances.

This policy may help the demise of our car industry, most cars sold are fleet cars often to employees taking advantage of the FBT concessions for cars on novated leases. I feel for people who have just entered into novated lease arrangements based upon the current FBT arrangements they will be burnt financially big time. It won't take much to push Ford over the edge and cost jobs,BUT pensionsers will get a $300 set top box, now that's a social conscience This budget has had virtually no effect on me personally and I'd never buy a Ford!

[The Sleeping Giant]

Television the drug of a nation.

[Bully]

i guess most arent liking the $900 we got from the government all that time ago now hey i said this would happen as i donated my money to charity at the time

[once_were_warriors]

Good

Mental health injection
Capping threshold for family benefits and private health rebate
Family trusts at company tax rate

Bad

Set top boxes

[Bully]

Good

Mental health injection
Capping threshold for family benefits and private health rebate
Family trusts at company tax rate

Bad

Set top boxes

HERE HERE

but also BAD - reducing tax benefits for tradies.