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14 May 2008

Tax Simplification, Not Just Automation

What an easy answer to the 10p tax problem: Reduce taxation by simply adjusting our “personal allowances”: Minimum bureaucracy, minimum complexity, minimum administration cost.

Now, which politician will be brave enough to abolish the silly and grossly unfair TV ownership licence? (Currently 139.50 Pounds per household but equivalent to over 174 Pounds of gross annual income and especially harsh on low-income households.) The whole ghastly TV Licensing bureaucracy, online service and enforcement arm could then be abolished, making further significant savings.

Next, although the car ownership tax has so recently been increased and made even more complicated; which brave politician will abolish it - and the DVLA? The task of administering the safety & road-worthiness of vehicles could be handed to the insurance industry. Again, this would remove a large, expensive, unnecessary bureaucracy together with its unnecessary “enforcement” activities.

Wibbi: All politicians and all governments looked for ways to simplify matters, rather than ways to automate obsolete bureaucracies.

• Posted by Richard S on 14/05/08 at 10:34am
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