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Income tax for pensioners should not exceed £4,000 per year.

(218 Posts)
HUNTERF Tue 12-Mar-13 21:51:42

As people who are receiving higher occupational pensions have often paid a lot of income tax during their working lives should they put a limit of £4,000 a year on the amount of income tax to be paid by any one pensioner per year.

Frank

gillybob Thu 14-Mar-13 09:36:09

Are you suggesting Frank is an imposter annsixty ?

Surely not. shock

Nonu Thu 14-Mar-13 09:42:43

Frank post 13/3 , 8.30 like it [sunshine

HUNTERF Thu 14-Mar-13 12:01:15

gillybob

You have not told me where the shop is which has the notice ''Go home Frank and take your pension with you''

I can not find it.

Frank

Nonu Thu 14-Mar-13 12:15:27

You will have to be more diligent , Frank !

smile

Ana Thu 14-Mar-13 12:20:38

You mean you actually went out and looked for it, Frank? confused wink

HUNTERF Thu 14-Mar-13 12:27:02

Ana

I only use a few shops in the West Midlands on a regular basis and only about 6 know my name.
Oddly enough several members of staff know my name in my local Sainsburys because I worked with one of their staff in the past and they serve me ok.

Frank

Frank

Nonu Thu 14-Mar-13 12:27:04

Of course he did . Frank would leave no stone unturned !

smile

Ana Thu 14-Mar-13 12:30:39

Perhaps someone from Sainsbury's took the notice down, because they didn't want to lose your custom? Yes, that'll be it.....

gillybob Thu 14-Mar-13 12:32:34

Oh Frank (if indeed you are Frank) what are we to do with you? smile

I am very happy to say that I regularly use about 5-6 shops in my town and I delighted that none of them know my name !

Oddly enough though someone did refer to me by name in a local (famous brand) coffee shop recently confused

Oh silly me, yes I remember now it was my daughter.

Ana Thu 14-Mar-13 12:43:27

If you pay by bank card, they only have to read the name on it....
Although sometimes I use DH's, and I don't think I'd pass for a man, even on a very bad hair day! grin

gillybob Thu 14-Mar-13 14:13:17

I can't remember the last time I did hand a card over to an assistant though
Ana in the shops I use they always have a machine and you just pop the card into it. smile

I know Frank is such a popular (and well off) guy that the shops probably radio each other to say Breaking news, Frank's in town grin

Orca Thu 14-Mar-13 14:17:01

Gillybob why are you writing in the style of Frank?
Bejesus Ana has just converted too....

Ana Thu 14-Mar-13 14:37:36

Come over to the dark side, Orca! You know you want to....wink

gillybob Thu 14-Mar-13 15:04:26

OMG Orca I think it must be catching.

I know a happy place far far away
where children grannies eat jam and bread 5 times a day
Ham and eggs they never see
dirty water for their tea
now they are magically...............fading away, away, away, away.

Someone help me, help me help me pleeeeeeeease.

grin

Orca Thu 14-Mar-13 19:08:15

I wish I was a little grub,
With whiskers round my tummy.
I'd crawl into the honey huney pot
And make my tummy gummy.

gillybo I'm joining you at Ana's suggestion

granjura Thu 14-Mar-13 21:27:39

Just told my friend over the phone - and she loves you Frank. She has a 7 bedrooms, 5 bathroom mansion in Surrey - she'll now be able to buy another holiday home in Dordogneshire or Tuscanyshire with the savings on tax. Hurrah. And when her OH goes into a home, she will sit in her 15m x 5m kitchen, by the Aga, watching her many acres being tended by the gardener, whilst the housekeeper polishes the oak floors - whilst the State (hmmm other peoples' taxes) pay for his luxury OAP pad. She loves you, honest.

Anne58 Thu 14-Mar-13 21:39:02

"Somewhere, over the rainbow, bluebirds crap fly, ..........

Galen Thu 14-Mar-13 21:47:46

Money, money, money
Franks got his money
In a poor mans world

Money, money, money
Why should Frank worry?
In his selfish world!

Ana Thu 14-Mar-13 22:26:11

I like Frank. At least he's honest, even if he appears to have no sense of humour...hmm

annodomini Thu 14-Mar-13 22:45:42

Frankly, do I care? wink

Anne58 Thu 14-Mar-13 22:45:58

Ana I would agree on some points, honest, yes, naïve, sometimes, yes. However, I still stick to my point on another thread that often he doesn't show consideration, compassion or sympathy for others.

Ana Thu 14-Mar-13 23:04:32

True - but at least he's honest about it! Or rather, he doesn't feel he has to pretend to feel something he doesn't, which I find rather refreshing.

annodomini Thu 14-Mar-13 23:09:17

Oh, Ana, I think most of us are quite frank about our beliefs and opinions. grin

Ana Thu 14-Mar-13 23:13:05

anno, I certainly wasn't implying that we are not - but Frank is a man, after all.....

gillybob Thu 14-Mar-13 23:38:33

Is "he" really Ana? I am no longer so sure?????????

Speaking Frankly of course . grin