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Topic: Re:Re:Petrol prices
Posted by: Thomas Barry
Date/Time: 18/02/15 15:31:00

"I think the only case where a tax is levied on a tax"

If you call duty a tax, there's 20% VAT on both fags and booze, which already carry substantial levels of duty.

https://www.gov.uk/tax-on-shopping/alcohol-tobacco

"If not, how can you be sure they haven't ?"

It's anecdata anyway.  The real picture is mixed:

"We also have data on full-time wages by occupation. These show that wages of professionals have fallen in nominal terms in the last 12 months, by 2.1%. Wages of skilled trades, though, have risen 5.1%; given that employment of them has risen 6.1% this could be evidence that skill shortages are raising some wages. Wages of sales staff have gone up by 6.2%, although the numbers of them have fallen slightly. Since the Q1 2010 trough in employment, though, managers' pay has outstripped others, rising by 14.6% compared to an average of 6.6%.   "

http://stumblingandmumbling.typepad.com/stumbling_and_mumbling/2015/02/worker-flows-occupations.html

So it depends in the area your friends work in.  Manager or plumber, doing OK. Working professional, probably not so OK.


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Petrol prices18/02/15 13:11:00 Vanessa Smith
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            Re:Re:Re:Re:Petrol prices19/02/15 10:40:00 Vanessa Smith
         Re:Re:Re:Petrol prices23/02/15 15:44:00 Lou Valdini
            Re:Re:Re:Re:Petrol prices24/02/15 08:12:00 Vanessa Smith
   Re:Petrol prices18/02/15 15:14:00 Richard Greenhough
      Re:Re:Petrol prices18/02/15 15:31:00 Thomas Barry
         Re:Re:Re:Petrol prices18/02/15 15:36:00 Nigel Brooks
            Re:Re:Re:Re:Petrol prices18/02/15 15:55:00 Huw Burford-Taylor
               Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Petrol prices18/02/15 16:01:00 Will Watson
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