Thursday, May 29, 2008

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These days I am suffering from what, for most of the English and tucked himself into his work life is no more than a nuisance annual already used to, but for me it's a new torture: preparing the statement of income.

Indeed, when I moved to England have not won enough to have to submit it, so this is the first time I have to do in Spain. I must admit that the tax office makes a great effort to make things easy for the citizen: you prepare drafts of the declaration, you send tax information, even lets you ask for an official appointment will make the statement for you. All this is fine if you settle your tax information put on the agenda FATHER, give the crank and get the amount of money you must pay. If you dare to scratch the surface a bit, making the daring to understand how to calculate those numbers, and dare you to browse the manual 2007 income among its 770 pages contain paragraphs as tight as this:
To ensure the same reduction of the tax burden for all taxpayers with equal status family, whatever their income level, the amount corresponding to the minimum personal and family income does not reduce the tax period to determine the tax base, but becomes part of the base to be taxed at zero rate.
As an Englishman would say, clear as mud . After spending a couple of hours I have been able to understand generally how the tax is calculated, experiencing one of my frequent moments of longing for the United Kingdom, where all of the paperwork was vastly simpler than in Spain.
In the UK, for starters, the statement of income (known as tax assesment or, more commonly, tax return) is required to submit far fewer people: unless you win a respectable amount of money, Be independent, or have income or expenses exotic that are outside the withholding system, it is more likely that you free. In the six and a half years I lived in the UK, I did not submit even once.

This is possible because to PAYE withholding system , whereby each month when you retain the full amount of the tranche of income tax you for and if for any reason (some extra income, perhaps) you pay more or less the following month retention is adjusted to compensate.

The tax itself has similarities with English. In the UK there are fewer sections and the top tax rate is lower (40% instead of 43%). One of the English income tax deductions star, home buying, does not exist in the UK (where, however, stamp duty equivalent to excise tax, is much more benign.)

income tax, incidentally, was recently the star of one of the worst political crisis that Gordon Brown is having to weather. A recent reform rearranged segments, harming millions of people with low incomes. The danger of a Labour internal revolt forced the finance minister Alasdair Darling to step back and make changes to soften.

Wednesday, May 21, 2008

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Old Bailey is the name of the building that houses the Central Criminal Court in London, the most important of the courts that make up the Crown Court, one of the pillars of the justice system in England and Wales (which is separately from Scotland and Northern Ireland). Its jurisdiction is limited to the capital, although in rare cases also deal with cases from other parts of England.

Old Bailey is one of the leading British regular newscasts, but recently made headlines nicest grounds of serious crimes are tried in it. From April to Query Internet summary file educated from 1674-1913. I had a look at random with a few search terms and the result has been very interesting and even sympathetic to the everyday nature of a lot of recorded crime, some of them quite minor. The language is fairly flat so it's not that hard to understand as one might imagine.

Link: Proceedings of the Old Bailey 1674-1913

Tuesday, April 29, 2008

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In early April, Royal Mint, the Mint UK, unveiled the new designs soon decorate the backs of the coins circulation in the country and were chosen through public tender . I have not yet had in my hands, but seeing the images that are available on the internet my opinion is that new designs are great, elegant and very contemporary look. Much more beautiful that the euro coins, whose face is vulgar and tasteless common and national sides which generally do not show great aesthetic ambition (of course, not Spain).

New British coin designs have raised some controversy. Many Welsh people have been annoyed at not finding any symbol of your country in them. This is because the new coins are decorated exclusively with the British coat, which is not present any evidence of Wales itself. Previously, two-pence coins bore the Prince of Wales feathers and some pound coins were decorated with the dragon.

Others have lamented the disappearance Britannia, the country's female allegory whose presence in the English coins dating from the seventeenth century, and until now decorated the coins of 50 pence.

More information: Coins of the pound sterling (Wikipedia)

Tuesday, April 15, 2008

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Next twentieth day of this month will be twenty years that the Conservative politician Enoch Powell uttered in a hotel in Birmingham, with activists Tories, his famous speech known as "Rivers of Blood , one of the most important in recent British history.

In the speech, with clear racist overtones, Powell denounced the generous British immigration policy in those years, which placed few obstacles to the arrival of citizens of Commonwealth countries . Predicted a catastrophic future where "in twenty years the black man will take under his whip the white man", and quoted a line from Virgil's Aeneid, "Wars, horrid wars, and the Tiber foaming with much blood I watch the " would end up giving names to his address.

The speech was very controversial, and fulminant Powell was sacked from his post as defense minister in the shadow by Conservative leader Edward Heath. However, a large proportion of the population sympathized with their ideas, and received numerous expressions of support, including a dock strike, 1000 of which went to London to express their disagreement with his dismissal. Over the years, British political culture, Powell became the paradigm of xenophobic dark side of the country. Today, the figure only openly claimed by the extreme right.

Enoch Powell was a peculiar character. He had a great learning and prodigious intellectual capacity, which helped him to become professor of Greek at the University of Sydney with just 25 years. In World War II rose to the rank of lieutenant colonel. After his discourse again hold high position in the Conservative party. I finally abandoned in the mid-seventies, to protest the entry of the United Kingdom in the European Economic Community. He ended his political life in Northern Ireland Unionist MP.

More :
Enoch Powell's "Rivers of Blood" speech (Telegraph) , Obituary of Enoch Powell (The Guardian) , Rivers of Blood speech (Wikipedia)