Cycle to work: Budget clampdown

[Dadam]

which basically just penalises people who don't work

In what weird universe does it "penalise" anybody? What a strange comment.

People who don't work don't receive a salary therefore can't do a salary sacrifice. I'm a high rate taxpayer who is married, but my wife doesn't work. Am I being "penalised" because I can't claim the married person's tax allowance?

 

[PaulSB]

Not before time. I know many people who have spent thousands on bikes under this scheme. Not one of them commutes.

The biggest p*** take I've personally seen is someone who works from home, bought a £7k bike on C2W and uses it to pop out and do hill repeats while on lunch break!!!!

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[N0bodyOfTheGoat]

Whole salary sacrifice benefits needs looking at, not just C2W.

 

[Dadam]

Not before time. I know many people who have spent thousands on bikes under this scheme. Not one of them commutes.

The biggest p*** take I've personally seen is someone who works from home, bought a £7k bike on C2W and uses it to pop out and do hill repeats while on lunch break!!!!

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I believe the phrase "so chuffin what?" leaps to mind. The whole scheme only costs £130m. At the risk of NCAP territory, I'd far rather Ms Reeves take a long hard look at the massive corporations taking orders of magnitude more p*** (e.g Starbucks, Amazon etc)

 

[Psamathe]

Just make cycles, cycle parts & cycle maintenance zero rated for VAT. Encourage people to get and to use bikes and recognise the obvious short term cost would be offset by lower emissions, lower pollution, lower NHS demands, etc. (everybody here knows the benefits to society from cycling so I won't re-list them).

And so what if some wealthy person uses that to buy some expensive lycra shirt or some ludicrous carbon frame - they'll still use it, still make lower demands on the NHS, etc.

 

[a.twiddler]

It's all just froth and speculation, and someone's opinion though, isn't it. There was time when chancellors remained tight lipped in the run up to a budget. Even now, nobody will really know anything until the day whatever might be said beforehand.

 

[Moderators]

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