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Usagi @usagi3939.bsky.social · 20h

Also has an impact upon their use in HMG and CNI supply chains by using standardised cyber security tools provided by NCSC. Works well in conjunction with NPSA's Secure Innovation and Trusted Research initiatives. www.ncsc.gov.uk/news/small-b...

Small businesses to receive cyber security boost with new toolkit from experts

NCSC CEO unveils a new Cyber Action Toolkit at the NCSC’s Annual Review launch with clear message to small businesses that ‘it is time to act’.

www.ncsc.gov.uk

Usagi @usagi3939.bsky.social · 1d

Should read 2035, sorry

Usagi @usagi3939.bsky.social · 1d

Radical tax overhaul, definitely - but there seems to be plenty of think tanks out there with an idea of how to implement it.

Usagi @usagi3939.bsky.social · 1d

all with the general consensus that a pay-per-mile scheme is required to facilitate the full transition to a practical form of motoring taxation for EVs and remaining ICE vehicles beyond the 2025 cutoff for new hybrid sales, complementing EV inclusion in VED payments from April this year.

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Usagi @usagi3939.bsky.social · 1d

Plus, Christ knows how many articles in between,
www.thetimes.com/article/654f...

Road tax by the mile is a route we can’t avoid

The average motorist would pay no more in total motoring taxes but politically the switch-over will not be easy

www.thetimes.com

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Usagi @usagi3939.bsky.social · 1d

And the TBI report from 2021, Avoiding Gridlock Britain. bsky.app/profile/usag...

Usagi @usagi3939.bsky.social · May 31

In its report "Avoiding Gridlock Britain", the TBI put the revenue loss on fuel duty at over £30bn, "requiring tax rises equivalent to up to 2p on income tax by the end of the next Parliament and up to 6p by 2040." institute.global/insights/cli...

Avoiding Gridlock Britain

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Usagi @usagi3939.bsky.social · 1d

An SMF report from last year. www.smf.co.uk/commentary_p...

Upcoming fuel duty freeze will cost government over £20 billion and do nothing to alleviate poverty - Social Market Foundation.

It is all but announced that the Chancellor will continue to freeze fuel duty rates in the Spring Budget. But as the cost of the move to the Exchequer ticks up to nearly £130 billion - it's a shame th...

www.smf.co.uk

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Usagi @usagi3939.bsky.social · 1d

This complements an OBR report published March this year covering the same topics of risk in lost revenue. obr.uk/forecasts-in...

Fuel duties - Office for Budget Responsibility

Fuel duties are levied on purchases of petrol, diesel and a variety of other fuels. They represent a significant source of revenue for government. In 2025-26, we expect fuel duties to raise £24.4 billion. That would represent 2.0 per cent of all receipts and is equivalent to £850 per household and 0.8 per cent of national...

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Usagi @usagi3939.bsky.social · 1d

Haven't seen any sign of planning or even consideration for change yet by this government, which is hardly surprising because it calls for a radical tax overhaul.

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Usagi @usagi3939.bsky.social · 1d

Nice reminder in here from the IFS about the need for government to have a bit of longer-term planning to replace lost fuel duty revenue due to increased use of EVs over petrol and diesel vehicles, and of VAT revenue from domestic charging, rather than continuing the ongoing can-kicking exercise.

Ben Zaranko @benzaranko.bsky.social · 1d

Finally, it's not too late to sign up to our Green Budget launch event this Thursday where we'll be talking about the UK's macroeconomic outlook, bond market challenges, the state of the public finances, tax options, the fiscal rules, etc. Come along!

bsky.app/profile/benz...

Ben Zaranko @benzaranko.bsky.social · 11d

On 16 October we're launching this year's IFS Green Budget, looking at the major challenges & choices facing the Chancellor this autumn.

Sign up for our event! Analysis from IFS & Barclays, plus reflections from Jonathan Haskel & Andy King. It'll be great. ifs.org.uk/events/ifs-g...

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 3d

When I was involved in uni Cons stuff, the BBC were sniffing around for what became a documentary "Young, Bright and on the Right". The only people who had the self-awareness to not come off terribly also had the awareness to know they would get stitched up, so only the weirdest got involved.

Dave Bagpuss Forsey 🍺 @bagpuss.org · 6d

The photography in this article really feels like The Times are deliberately setting these people up for ridicule. (You can read it without visiting The Times here archive.ph/KZZC1)

An article from The Times: "Meet the young Tories dreaming of a bright blue future". Featuring bizarre portraits of Charles Amos, Rhys Benjamin and Daniel Campbell.

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Usagi @usagi3939.bsky.social · 2d

Although ironically, it might be the thing that finally causes property values in London to fall without the required chargepoint made available for on-street parking.

Usagi @usagi3939.bsky.social · 2d

Whether London councils like it or not, ICE vehicles are being phased out. Consigning residents to higher charge rates or no option for owning and charging an EV at all isn't exactly progressive.

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Usagi @usagi3939.bsky.social · 2d

And this is what it comes down to, practicalities of ensuring a charge for your EV aside - the domestic VAT rate on a charge stands at 5%. For public charging, it is still 20%.

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Usagi @usagi3939.bsky.social · 2d

And as an aside, the state of council-maintained pavements are already something to behold for trip hazards, rendering this a moot point. www.thetimes.co.uk/article/ev-d...

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Usagi @usagi3939.bsky.social · 2d

In which maintenance of said charging infrastructure in street furniture is a prerequisite.

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Usagi @usagi3939.bsky.social · 2d

- given they've been content to utilise capital from the Local Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (LEVI) fund to implement planning and installation of on-street charging infrastructure using existing street furniture. www.volkerhighways.co.uk/en/news/levi...

LEVI funding – what does this mean for your local authority? | VolkerHighways

On 30 March 2023, the Department for Transport (DfT) announced they were launching a further £380.8m for the Local Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (LEVI) fund.

www.volkerhighways.co.uk

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Usagi @usagi3939.bsky.social · 2d

I find the reticence of some councils to adopt kerbside charging mystifing - www.thetimes.com/article/15a0...

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Usagi @usagi3939.bsky.social · 3d

A woman's agency in business doesn't suddenly end when her actions cross over into illegality. The mens rea isn't subject to masculinity.

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Usagi @usagi3939.bsky.social · 3d

Stop trying to force a false dichotomy. Someone can be a woman, a successful businesswoman at that, and still engage in economic crime and be expected by law to take responsibility for her actions.

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Usagi @usagi3939.bsky.social · 3d

Slightly frustrated by the Times and other publications giving Mone a relatively easy ride on the basis of the attacks by Reeves being aimed at a successful businesswoman.
www.thetimes.com/article/d2df...

Usagi @usagi3939.bsky.social · 14d

But Baroness Mone specifically manoeuvred herself into a position optimal to exploitation of desperate times when normal circumstances and procedures had been suspended, from which she and her husband benefited at the expense of taxpayers. To deny that either of them benefited from this is absurd.

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Usagi @usagi3939.bsky.social · 3d

If only it didn't come with those associated, slightly sinister tendencies undoing all the frivolous fun.

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Usagi @usagi3939.bsky.social · 3d

We really ought to use "cad" more often. www.thetimes.com/article/a364...

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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 5d

I realise, with discomfort, that my own style is very similar.

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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 5d

Reading a book by someone I admire on a subject that fascinates me, but their style grates. Every noun has at least one adjective, every verb its adverb. Paris, for example, is a “seething melting pot of boundless ideas”.

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