Yesterday it was this...
ATO could take fines from wages
News Interactive, Australia - 29
Mar 2003
By David Wilson. HUNDREDS of millions of dollars in unpaid fines
would
be lifted from pay packets under a radical plan being considered
...
Today...
The Treasury is braced for a 'male
backlash' against the Budget over changes which will transfer tax credit
money from husbands to their wives.
Sources close to Downing Street have admitted to concerns over working
men opening their pay packets in April to find they appear to have 'lost'
hundreds of pounds.
The family payment will have shifted to their wives' bank accounts, under
changes reflecting that women are considered more likely to spend the
cash on children. But fears that up to 200,000 working men will resent
the loss of control - or confuse it with the national insurance rise due
on 6 April - have prompted a national advertising campaign to explain the
change.
"The worry is that a lot of men are not going to like this, even
though their families are still getting the money," said one senior
Labour source.
http://www.observer.co.uk/politics/story/0,6903,925787,00.html
