Should payment towards the Royal Family be made voluntary?.

Have to fess up , it me , thing of it is I was not around when first mooted , only just read it .

However, I am not the first to resurrect a topic and taking a stab in the dark here, will probably not be the last .

Lilygran

You said ''I'd rather my taxes (and my mother's) went to support the head of state than the various elderly people whose relatives Frank supports in avoiding making any contribution towards their care''.

I do not support relatives who want to avoid making any contribution to their care.

I am sopporting people who are entitled to full NHS funding who are denied it until you start getting stern with the officials involved.

It is certainly way out of order to tell a son / daughter to sell the house they are living in if they are joint owner occupiers.

Frank

Or we could just talk songs.

Eleanor Rigby anyone? Yellow submarine?

Even I am looking at my comments and thinking "WTF"!

#letitgo

It just risks degenerating into another same old same old. I'm with j08 on this one!

I cannot tell a lie. It was nonu. So?

Who the flip brought this one back?!

#getoriginal

I'd rather my taxes (and my mother's) went to support the head of state than the various elderly people whose relatives Frank supports in avoiding making any contribution towards their care.

Kali loved the song 2nd Feb .

Very apt .

Hi JessM

I think a person should get his penny tax refund if he wants it.

Frank

You know, jingl you are sometimes SO sensible! Not always, but then, who is?

I wonder what they will do with it, the penny.
Then there is the taxpayers money that is wasted sending people tiny refunds. and sending out letters reminding about small amounts. I'd be quite happy if they just rounded up to the nearest tenner or so, in favour of the NHS etc.

absent A penny well spent!

Thank you vampirequeen. I think the figures about the royal accounts are quite deliberately obscured so it is extremely difficult for Brit cits/tax payers to make fair comments.

As a self-assessed person, I have had bills from Revenue and Customs telling me I owe another penny after they have received the cheque for several thousands. Where are we going with this? (They say that you can send a cheque; I just Sellotaped a penny to the bill and posted it back.)

Why should absent back off? I've looked back and can't see anything offensive or agressive. Have I missed a post? All I can see is her pointing out the inequality of the tax system regarding the Royal Family and suggesting that the 62p is inaccurate because it doesn't take into account the cost of security.

Well you don't have to. respond Kali.

Why don't you just back off and drop it Absent enough is enough?

I think the government calculates the cost of the royal family in an "interesting" and off-the-books kind of way.

In addition, both the Queen and the Prince of Wales decide how much tax they will pay, having been forced to pay something. Inheritance tax was not payable on the Queen Mother's estate and, presumably, won't be on the Queen's, so how much tax do they not pay simply by right of birth?

Oh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I get it!

Nah! Nothing like!

merlotgran If that were the case, why would anyone go through such a purposeless and pointless pantomime as to ask who cheelu is – not once, but at least twice?

Should have said "some more" there. Actually, I thought I did, must be a gremlin in the keyboard.

Some for stuff here but no conclusions. I suspect the debate about financing the head of state could go on ad infinitum with no-one changing their opinions.

Don't know about security. here

Does 62p each include security? I suspect not.