I love my surcharge

Following weeks of debate on the water and electricity surcharge, my wife and I dug out our utility bills for the past year. We discovered that over a year we had paid a total of Lm68 (€158.44) in surcharge. So if the Labour Party were to be in power,...

Following weeks of debate on the water and electricity surcharge, my wife and I dug out our utility bills for the past year.

We discovered that over a year we had paid a total of Lm68 (€158.44) in surcharge. So if the Labour Party were to be in power, we would have saved the grand sum of half that amount - €79.22 (Lm34), or €38.61 (Lm17) each!

In a frenzy of excitement on seeing this, we whipped out our FS3s for 2007 and, surprise, surprise, we calculated that a widening of the tax bands and a revision of the top rate of income tax would result in hundreds of euros in our pocket rather than in the taxman's coffers.

So please leave my surcharge alone.

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