(10 Apr 2025, 7:00 pm)Hv Andreos1 wrote The irony being, that passenger numbers may be affected by the increase in ticket costs, routes get cancelled, fleets get smaller and ultimately, staff get made redundant or not replaced due to natural attrition.
They blame NICs but the employers rate 2022-23 was 15.05%. I guess at that time, SNE were soaking up the tax payers subsidies so didn’t notice the NICs . Anyway, with massive increases in NHS funding, people will get treated. Many hundreds of thousands of them will be bus users and fare paying passengers. Anyway, I suspect DWS are rerouting UK income to other shores. It happened when German UK owned energy companies took the profits back to Frankfurt.