Matt Gubba
@MattGubba
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Funder of startups & small businesses. Positive thinker. Freedom Fanatic. I love business ownership and hate state overreach 🏴🇬🇧🇺🇸
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Joined January 2010
Keir Starmer has done it 👏 He's successfully United the Kingdom... AGAINST HIM! Say NO to Digital ID ⛔️
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2025 official figures: 16,500 millionaires have already fled Britain. More than £2 billion in yearly tax revenue lost permanently. Where are they going? - UAE: net inflow of +9,800 wealthy newcomers - USA: +7,500 - Southern Europe (Portugal, Italy, Greece) seeing record
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One of the biggest tax hikes in Britain right now is the one nobody sees. It is not headline rates or new levies. It is fiscal drag; the quiet tax rise hitting every working person in the country. Income tax thresholds have been frozen for years. Wages rise with inflation,
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If you are an ambitious young to middle-aged person, leaving the UK is an obvious move. I don't say that with glee... I'm just a realist. I left in 2021 and it's been a life upgrade on multiple fronts.
Nobody wants to say it out loud, but here it is: Britain has no path to growth until the tax burden is reversed. 2026 is shaping up to be a lost year. Corporation tax at 25%. Dividend tax rising again. Frozen thresholds dragging millions into higher bands. Business rates
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Nobody wants to say it out loud, but here it is: Britain has no path to growth until the tax burden is reversed. 2026 is shaping up to be a lost year. Corporation tax at 25%. Dividend tax rising again. Frozen thresholds dragging millions into higher bands. Business rates
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Let’s be honest: the tax hikes in this Budget were never about “fixing the economy”. They were about advancing Labour’s ideology, not doing what is best for working people. Reeves claimed tax rises were “unavoidable” because of a fiscal black hole. The latest forecasts now
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Nobody in government seems to grasp what is coming for British hospitality in 2026. It will be a bloodbath. - Business rates are set to rocket. - Wage costs are rising again. - Energy prices remain brutal. - Alcohol duty has been hiked. And Labour has just stripped away the
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Labour keeps talking about “working people”, but look closely at what they mean. They are not talking about builders, founders, shop owners, freelancers or anyone who takes risks. They are talking about people who earn from the state or rely on it. If you create jobs, you are
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Reeves must resign. She has now been caught lying about the so-called “black hole” three separate times. The OBR has confirmed there was no black hole at all; she actually had billions in surplus headroom, yet she still pushed through the biggest tax raid in modern UK history.
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Britain is heading straight into a succession crisis; no one is talking about it. - Over 600,000 business owners are aged 55+. - Most will retire in the next decade. - Many have no succession plan. - Most don’t want to sell to competitors. - And thanks to Labour’s Budget,
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Britain has quietly become the land of taxes on taxes on taxes, and small business owners are getting rinsed from every angle. - Taxed when you earn it (corporation tax) - Taxed again when you take it (dividend tax) - Taxed when you hire (employer NI) - Taxed when you get
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The UK is sleepwalking into an entrepreneurship collapse, and nobody in government seems to care. - 40,000+ small businesses are vanishing every year. - New start-ups are at a decade low. - Taxes are at a post-WW2 high. And Labour just hit entrepreneurs with the biggest tax
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Brits are refusing to pay the BBC licensing fee. This fee is a ridiculous charge that the BBC tries to force citizens to pay even if they never watch BBC content. The BBC is losing money and desperately needs the revenue. So they are now increasing the fee that citizens are
🚨BREAKING: The BBC is set to raise the “licence fee” to £200 annually. This follows after millions of households have cancelled their licence fee. The British refuse to pay for fake news.
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Rachel Reeves told the country tax rises were “unavoidable” because of a £22bn black hole. The OBR has now confirmed that black hole never existed; she actually had over £4bn of headroom. Yet she still hit entrepreneurs, families and small businesses with the biggest tax raid
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Employee ownership was effectively killed off in Thursday’s Budget, and the people hurt most aren’t founders; they’re employees who dreamed of owning the business they helped build. Under the old rules, selling to an Employee Ownership Trust (EOT) was viable: A founder could
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So let’s get this straight. Rachel Reeves told the country tax rises were “unavoidable” because of a giant fiscal black hole. The OBR has now confirmed that black hole never existed. Meaning millions of people and small businesses are being hit with the biggest tax raid in
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Business rates are about to devastate the UK hospitality sector in 2026. Take The Squirrels Inn in Northampton: its rateable value jumps from £22k to £86k in one go. Under the current 40% hospitality relief, that pub pays roughly £6.5k a year. From 2026, the bill rises towards
Business rates just jumped from £22k to £86k at The Squirrels. That’s a 291% increase — in one hit. This is how pubs and small businesses fold. Quiet updates, massive impact. #NoDayWasted®
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Some people genuinely believe business owners shouldn’t get any tax incentives above PAYE employees. As if the person who takes zero risk, has no money invested, gets holiday pay, sick pay, a pension, protections, and guaranteed wages should be treated the same as the person who
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Ten years ago, a small business owner taking a £100k dividend could pay as little as £2,500 in personal tax if structured efficiently under the old dividend tax system. Today in 2025, they’re paying £21,250. Next year, under Labour’s new budget, they’ll pay over £23,000. And
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The real price of living in the UK isn't the: - Embarrassingly low wages - Awful public services - Painfully high taxes It's the constant drip of toxic, negative energy that British citizens get bombarded with from every angle. That's the real killer of dreams.
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Small business owners on average incomes are about to get hammered again next year. Labour is raising the basic-rate dividend tax from 8.75% to 10.75%. It sounds tiny on paper... just “2%”. In reality it’s a 23% increase in the tax bill for the average small business owner.
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