you're the chancellor

[stez]

what would you do?

i would scrap all tax on already taxed income.

[lookwhaticando]

Simplify the tax regime.

Too much complexity makes the whole system tedious and expensive.

Simplify it and a lot of the other issues will sort themselves out to some degree. Then you can play around with the taxation rates themselves.

[Daggers]

I would develop an alcohol problem, impregnate my secretary and then resign after a photo is published in the News of the World showing me snorting cocaine of the pert breasts of a 15 year old from Carlisle.

[Bryn]

I'd make it so people kept more of the money they earned and lessen benefits for those who don't really need them.

That, or just copy DD's idea above me, sounds good.

[Fez of Mahrez]

I would develop an alcohol problem, impregnate my secretary and then resign after a photo is published in the News of the World showing me snorting cocaine of the pert breasts of a 15 year old from Carlisle.

You mean there's a stage after the one you're currently on??

[Daggers]

You mean there's a stage after the one you're currently on??

Shocking but true, according to my counsellor.

I've hit the ceiling on my substance abuse though.

[Leicfox]

Id make National Mininum wage £10 p/h for English born workers.

[billabob]

dance around the streets in the nude giving away money perhaps chocolate covered, why?, because i could!

[Stevosevic]

Id make National Mininum wage £10 p/h for English born workers.

crazy

[Thracian]

Id make National Mininum wage £10 p/h for English born workers.

Just to make the odds against them getting a job even more stacked against them, I presume.

[JoeyB]

I would shoot Tony Blair in the head!

Abolish Income Tax and make the average price of 10 fags £4 and 20 fags £7

[lcfcalan]

If I were Chancellor I would be Scottish, and therefor I would stop making an arse of myself by saying WE want the world cup to be staged at OUR home ground Wembley (after prelims in England) in YR 2014.

He is a Jock , no offence , it is a fact. My Dad was a Jock, but he was not ever about to say things like 'we' when refering to the England team or home venues in England.

[lookwhaticando]

Id make National Mininum wage £10 p/h for English born workers.

Thank god you have no power.

Why not just outlaw business instead... a much simpler way of dumping millions onto the dole!

Just to make the odds against them getting a job even more stacked against them, I presume.

Unintended consequences are just too funny sometimes.

[Nationwider]

I'd increase the resources and the powers of HMRC ten-fold in order to properly address the problems of tax avoidance, evasion, VAT fraud, gangmasters and NICs avoidance by greedy twats generally that costs the bog-standard taxpayer billions and billions and billions of pounds a years.

Then, I'd make myself Prime Minister in about 6 months, get the **** out of Iraq, and promise to leave the smokers, the drinkers and the drivers alone.

After I've single-handedly reduced the tax gap to nil, I'd open every pub 24 hours a day for a year and let the Treasury foot the bill for a free bar and cold buffet.

[Cobbo]

I would piss in the red briefcase and open it over Thatcher's head.