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A significant proportion of benefits are paid to those in work, because their employers pay the minimum wage and know the government will top it up.

A way of reducing the benefits bill would be to insist that all businesses bidding for public contracts pay the living wage which is

Diesel dropped by 2p last week, still needs the price to be brought in line with petrol. Off to France on holiday later this year where diesel is the cheaper fuel at around

Not forgetting the Hearth Tax and the Brick Tax which was in force from 1784 until 1850, the Wallpaper Tax from 1712.

On the Window Tax, people just bricked up windows. The brick tax was based on number of bricks used, so brick makers started to make bigger bricks to get round it and Wallpaper Tax was on papers that were painted or stained to be hung on walls, decorators got round that by hanging plain paper and stencilling the pattern on afterwards.

Governments have often introduced idiotic taxes for which people have always found a way round.

Saw a quote on Twitter the other day on avoiding the bedroom tax, "Turn your spare room into a Starbucks, you pay no tax and neither do they!"

Have had them call at least 3 times in the last 12 months always from an overseas call centre as CLI comes up International/Unavailable or withheld, so I always wary when I get these calls.

As I had already heard of the scam and it was a quiet day, decided to play along, but not actually doing anything and asking all sorts of idiotic questions, after around 10 mins, they cottoned on that I was taking the mick and hung up.

The second time I answered the phone in Spanish, they hung up.

The third time a few short blasts from my ACME whistle ended the call, no call from them since!

I have found that if you like other pages and comment on and like their posts, or write on their wall you will see other people visiting your page. You need to make the page interesting and update at regular intervals otherwise people won't hang around for long.

Are you on Twitter, if so there are some "networking hours" for small & local businesses which gives the opportunity to sell you business to others, and will also help drive up facebook visits, but as I said before make sure you page is interesting and not static if you want to engage others.

Originally introduced as an environmental measure, but has become another way of government taxing peoples leisure activities.

Fuel is taxed in a similar way in so much that almost 2/3 of the cost of a litre of fuel in UK is duty or tax.

It's a good job the Irish Food Standards Agency was doing its job otherwise we would still be eating the stuff. Seems our FSA & Trading Standards no longer have the resources to undertake regular tests following cuts in funding!!

The question is what else don't we know about!!!

Yes 27 missed calls over a 2 week period, they must have been desperate!!

Until I had an email from them I had never heard of HIBU (thought it was a character from some Disney film!!!) and I guess ask anyone in the street what it is and would suggest no one would know.

Could be the final nail in the coffin for Yell/Yellow Pages, don't think we ever removed the plastic vacuum seal of last years copy and trying to replace a well known name with something as odd a HIBU hardly makes sense.

Given the number of times they rang me one week when I was on holiday (27 missed calls) they must have one hell of a phone bill, perhaps that explains the debt!!

When they did get to speak to me they did not fill me with confidence that they could do anything for me, they gave an impression all they were interested in was getting me signed up for a premium service.