Author: Michael James

I received an email overnight, as I mentioned in a previous blog posting, I had signed a petition to have the state pension, tax free. There was a meeting in the house of common regarding this earlier in the week and this link takes you to the meeting –

https://hansard.parliament.uk/HoC%20Debate/2024-01-16/debates/0972D88A-20DC-4229-B1A2-249B77610C62/web/

After reading the meeting, I don’t see any mention of stopping the tax on the state pension. So what was the point?

If you sign a petition and it reaches a certain total, you expect that to be action, don’t you?

Be interested to see what other people think, feel free to comment, but please keep it civil.

Well, not the day I was expecting that. Today I was meant to have been my bi-yearly eye test.

That didn’t happen, as what was meant to be a simple drive to Costa to get a coffee, ended in a nightmare.

I was parked opposite the Costa shop and got my coffee, after getting back in the car and pressing the button to start the engine, I went to turn the dial to reverse and nothing happened.

I tried various things over next 20 minutes, but nothing would respond and I was getting warning lights on the dashboard, that when I looked them up, said a malfunction, but not with what.

I rang my break down cover and they advised they would send a vehicle out to pick it up. I rang the KIA garage, which was only about a mile away, but they said they were booked for a month. So I rang the KIA where I purchased it from and they would take it in. The issue with this, was that it was about 30 miles away.

By now the car had lost all power, I was lucky as I parked on a slight slope, but I was last car, so it just rolled back into the kerb and not another car.

I was able to speak with one of my sisters and she was happy to come and pick me up from the garage once I had got there.

Just over an hour after I had called the break down service, the recovery vehicle turned up, but due to the issue with the car, he would have to park right in front of me, but there were two cars parked in front of me, one I knew was in the café, but the second car I had no idea. You could only park here for an hour, thankfully the recovery driver had no issues in waiting, which was good as it was about 35 minutes, before the other driver turned up. So he went and the driver of the other car allowed it to be moved. I had to stop another car trying to park in the spaces in front as the recovery vehicle was trying to move in front of my car.

Once the car was on the back of the recovery vehicle, we had a good journey to the garage and booked it in. I have to admit the recovery person was great.

My sister, came and got me and I finally got back home, mid-afternoon.

Now wait and see what they find.

This afternoon, I signed petition to stop state pension being taxed.

I mean you’re taxed when you’re working, plus taxed on the money going into your pension.

So why should we be taxed again on our pension. I mean the government have already taken enough tax from you over the years and your still be taxed on the other pensions that you have.

Let see what happens.