The Government has finally bowed to pressure for a public holiday between August and Christmas by announcing one, that is, a new bank holiday.
Stealth Tax Monday will take place on the last Monday in October each year, with the usual bank holiday rules applying.
On this day, residents of the UK, except those who have paid the Government £30,000 to become official state tax-dodgers, will be available to avoid stealth taxes for the entire day.
Bill Madd, director of TaxCon, the official stealth tax watchdog, said:
"I am delighted with this initiative. Truly and really highly delighted. And excited. The public have been demanding this break between August and Christmas for years. In fact, I've been looking forward to this for years. Have I mentioned how delighted I am. And excited."
Some of the measures coming into force, apart from the Government alerting the greeting card manufacturers so they can produce tacky cards with peurile verses, include:
- the switching off of all roadside revenue cameras for the day
- any relatives of people dying on Stealth Tax Monday (the exception being those who expire through suicide or euthanasia) will be free of inheritance tax
- anyone flying on the day will not have to pay passenger stealth tax
- anyone renewing their insurance will be able to avoid the insurance policy stealth tax
- people overfilling their wheelie bin or putting it out on the wrong day will excape the prosecution, torture or death penalty some councils impose
- Jonathan Ross will work salary-free for the day, saving the licence payer a whacking £16,500, the equivalent of the annual salary of a much more useful and probably far less irritating bus-driver's salary
