Decisions Have Consequences Part 2

[Hymie]

To all Brexiteers on AB, as a leave voter would you object to receiving the letter below from HMRC, and if so why?

Letter from HMRC - Brexit benefit tax

 

Dear Leave Voter,

As you are probably aware, as a direct result of Brexit, the UK economy has shrunk by around 4%, our trade with the EU down by over 25%, and UK exchequer tax receipts down by around £40 billion annually.

 

This amount of £40 billion was used by the UK government to pay for public services such as the NHS, education, defence, welfare, roads etc – the loss of such a large amount of tax has impacted the government’s ability to provide these services at a level it would like (and the British public expect).

 

In order to address this tax shortfall, HMRC and the UK government has decided that all those who voted leave in the 2016 referendum will be subject to an additional annual ‘Brexit benefit tax’.  This tax amount has been calculated based on the annual tax revenue loss (£40 billion) equally divided by the remaining leave voters.

 

As a leave voter, this calculated individual tax figure for this year of £2,500 per leave voter ‘Brexit benefit tax’ will be reclaimed by adjustment to your tax code for the following tax year.  I trust you appreciate the reason for this tax, having voted for this loss in tax revenue – it is only fair that you make up for the loss.

 

Going forward, this ‘Brexit benefit tax’ (payable by you) will be recalculated each year as indicated above, and is likely to increase with the passing of leave voters.

Yours

The Boss - HMRC

[davebro3]

get psychological help....🙄

[naomi24]

What absolute tripe. 

[davebro3]

and if you're looking to apportion "blame" include those Remain supporters who were too complacent to get out & register their vote.

[vulcan42]

All this would prove is that the government know who voted for and against on a supposedly secret ballot.

[SlackAlice]

Hymie,

do you live on "Fantasy Island"?

[Hymie]

All UK ballot papers (whether for local/national/referenda) are marking with a unique identifier traceable to the voter, if the authorities wish to know how you voted, it would be a simple matter for them to determine.

[Hymie]

If the UK government/HMRC had implemented plans as per the ‘Brexit benefit tax letter’ since 2016, leave voters would by now have paid a total additional tax of over £20,000 – at least they wouldn’t be posting on here, saying that they saw no negative effects of Brexit.

[ToraToraTora]

Hymie why were you and the other remoaners not this active before the vote in 2016?

[ToraToraTora]

https://fullfact.org/economy/tax-revenue-Brexit/

[ToraToraTora]

from the link:

"In actual fact, the UK’s tax revenue has increased since the EU referendum.

In the 2015/16 financial year—the last full tax year before the referendum—HMRC’s total tax revenues were £536.8 billion.

By comparison, in the most recent financial year, total tax revenues were £731.1 billion.

UK tax revenues in 2022/23 were also higher than 2019/20—the last full tax year before the UK formally left the EU—and 2020/21."

Poor Hymie, get some help me old china. It's no fun for us seeing you make a plonker of yourself everyday.

[davebro3]

It would not surprise me in the slightest if Hymie is a Remoaner who DIDN'T bother to vote & his repeated castigation on this site is a form of self-flagellation!

[Rosetta]

The OP is pure mischief making. Does this then bring it into the category of trolling

[ToraToraTora]

09:54 It's beyond that, I think he's got a mental illness. He keeps trawling round remoaner sites to the extent he now lives and breathes their deluded ramblings. 

[mushroom25]

if voters are to be penalised for their alleged actions, where would the line be drawn, Hymie?

would you approve the public execution of Reform voters (or anyone else whose views you don't approve of), Hymie?

[New Judge]

First he practicalities:

"All UK ballot papers (whether for local/national/referenda) are marking with a unique identifier traceable to the voter, if the authorities wish to know how you voted, it would be a simple matter for them to determine."

As far as I know, the record of the identity marker, which is recorded on the electoral roll, is not held on computer. So, to obtain a schedule of those who voted to leave, 17,410,742 slips of paper would have to be examined and the ID marker compared to the electoral register so as to obtain the details of the voter. So do you believe this would be a “simple matter”?

Next, he principles involved. Voting in the UK is by secret ballot. It is not “secret unless someone wants to know what way you voted”. Your idea would breach that principle and is sure  be successfully challenged – especially if the result was differential taxation.

Finally, your reasoning. As I said in Part One of this nonsense, the electorate did not implement Brexit - the government did. They had ample opportunity to kick it into touch and chose not to.

Other than hat, I don’t see any problems with your idea.

[ladybirder]

What would we do without you NJ;-))

[Deskdiary]

Watching NJ always dismantle Hymie's posts for the nonsense they are reminds me of the recent England pulverising of Wales. That was men vs boys.

[ToraToraTora]

stop it DD I didn't enjoy that at all😁🏉

[tommy39]

cuckoo,cuckoo

[Old_Geezer]

Being as polite as possible, this is another ridiculous hypothetical scenario, just designed to attempt to troll any intelligent individual who reads it.  Is there a point when these finally get shelved ?