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Are you trying to say that tax on cigarettes once equated to 20% of the governments total revenue?
I find that a real struggle to comprehend.
can you please tell me where i said that?
'Rude' police punishing middle classes to hit Home Office targets
can you please tell me where i said that?
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another sarcastic jibe
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tobacco duty calculated as a percentage as opposed to duty from other forms of taxation? related to how much it actually costs to buy tobacco.
How much is a packet of cigarettes?. how much of it is tax, and how much of it goes to the government compared with the percentage of other forms of taxation e.g your wages, fuel, house sales e.t.c
How much is a packet of cigarettes?. how much of it is tax, and how much of it goes to the government compared with the percentage of other forms of taxation e.g your wages, fuel, house sales e.t.c
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Crikey recycled, you need to lighten up a bit.
It was a JOKE....
Not like you to take things too literally.
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nothing like that there. i am sure the wording is clear
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i know that. i was just saying what it was
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Sorry, i don't understand.
The percentage of a packet of cigarettes that is tax is over 80% per my first reply on this. You then said that wasn't what you meant.
now I'm confused..
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before i complicate anything what i am saying or trying to say is the government went as far as to lie about the effects of smoking as they were concerned with how much they were making in taxation. now that it is not so significant, they are now trying to ban it.
Ps a non smoker.
So chase cash where it is never mind who gets hurt or crushed. same as modern policing
Ps a non smoker.
So chase cash where it is never mind who gets hurt or crushed. same as modern policing
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still confused...
The government make more revenue on cigarettes now than ever.
The government make more revenue on cigarettes now than ever.
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Just to show how bad it has become under this brainless Government, they have managed this triumph:
Top police boycott official paperwork
The country’s most successful police force is leading a revolt against Home Office targets that it says stifle officers with form-filling bureaucracy.
Surrey Police will be joined this weekend by the Staffordshire, Leicestershire and West Midlands forces in returning to what they call “commonsense policing”.
The forces will abandon government performance measurements that require them to record playground fights as criminal offences. Instead, their chiefs have told The Times, they will give the bobby on the beat the discretion to treat minor offences as minor offences.
A child who accidentally damages a neighbour’s greenhouse with his football is now more likely to be given a telling-off than a conviction for criminal damage.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article4036339.ece
However, cynics may also note the the fact that, despite being at the top of the pack in terms of idiotic performance targets, Surrey Police have for years been vastly short changed by the Government in terms of funding because Surrey is seen as a green leafy place full of rich Tory voters. Right now in the middle of a huge punch up over their ever decreasing funding with the Policing Minister, Tony McNulty. So no incentive to toe the idiotic Gobmint line!
Chief Constable Mark Rowley said:
"The escalating problem of criminals targeting Surrey has been raised with the Government many times, and it continues to cause myself and my police authority colleagues’ grave concern. Around half of the criminal threat facing Surrey is from London and other neighbouring high crime areas, and we are now hitting the critical tipping point where the majority of our criminal threat comes from outside the county.
The previous Chief Constable Bob Quick, now in charge of Counter-Terrorism at the Metropolitan Police Service, wrote to the policing minister in January setting out the real risks facing the county if the funding formula was not urgently addressed. In spite of the metropolitan-type threats facing the county, Surrey Police remains funded like a rural force. In fact, Surrey Police’s central grant allocation has decreased in real terms by approximately 25 per cent over the past ten years. However, our appeal for an interim special grant of £18m per year for the next three years, to take Surrey to the South East average of funding, was refused. The Authority had no option but to go to local people for financial help in addressing the risks we face.
The Authority and I are also asking the Government for pilot "foundation force" status to allow additional management flexibilities from current barriers in order to further increase our long-term efficiency and effectiveness.
Surrey was graded as the "top Force" following the most recent HMIC and Government performance assessments last autumn, gaining five excellent gradings out of the seven areas assessed. Our three year budget is challenging anyway, but any reduction from capping by Government will impact on frontline policing. If the Government goes ahead with capping, the consequences are likely to be potential reductions in neighbourhood policing and delayed and reduced implementation of new teams planned to combat cross-border crime and terrorist threats."
http://www.surreypolice.org.uk/news_item.asp?area=12&itemID=9771&division=
Top police boycott official paperwork
The country’s most successful police force is leading a revolt against Home Office targets that it says stifle officers with form-filling bureaucracy.
Surrey Police will be joined this weekend by the Staffordshire, Leicestershire and West Midlands forces in returning to what they call “commonsense policing”.
The forces will abandon government performance measurements that require them to record playground fights as criminal offences. Instead, their chiefs have told The Times, they will give the bobby on the beat the discretion to treat minor offences as minor offences.
A child who accidentally damages a neighbour’s greenhouse with his football is now more likely to be given a telling-off than a conviction for criminal damage.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article4036339.ece
However, cynics may also note the the fact that, despite being at the top of the pack in terms of idiotic performance targets, Surrey Police have for years been vastly short changed by the Government in terms of funding because Surrey is seen as a green leafy place full of rich Tory voters. Right now in the middle of a huge punch up over their ever decreasing funding with the Policing Minister, Tony McNulty. So no incentive to toe the idiotic Gobmint line!
Chief Constable Mark Rowley said:
"The escalating problem of criminals targeting Surrey has been raised with the Government many times, and it continues to cause myself and my police authority colleagues’ grave concern. Around half of the criminal threat facing Surrey is from London and other neighbouring high crime areas, and we are now hitting the critical tipping point where the majority of our criminal threat comes from outside the county.
The previous Chief Constable Bob Quick, now in charge of Counter-Terrorism at the Metropolitan Police Service, wrote to the policing minister in January setting out the real risks facing the county if the funding formula was not urgently addressed. In spite of the metropolitan-type threats facing the county, Surrey Police remains funded like a rural force. In fact, Surrey Police’s central grant allocation has decreased in real terms by approximately 25 per cent over the past ten years. However, our appeal for an interim special grant of £18m per year for the next three years, to take Surrey to the South East average of funding, was refused. The Authority had no option but to go to local people for financial help in addressing the risks we face.
The Authority and I are also asking the Government for pilot "foundation force" status to allow additional management flexibilities from current barriers in order to further increase our long-term efficiency and effectiveness.
Surrey was graded as the "top Force" following the most recent HMIC and Government performance assessments last autumn, gaining five excellent gradings out of the seven areas assessed. Our three year budget is challenging anyway, but any reduction from capping by Government will impact on frontline policing. If the Government goes ahead with capping, the consequences are likely to be potential reductions in neighbourhood policing and delayed and reduced implementation of new teams planned to combat cross-border crime and terrorist threats."
http://www.surreypolice.org.uk/news_item.asp?area=12&itemID=9771&division=
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