A brief insight into the Government’s view of other people’s money – an excerpt from a paper by HM Treasury on a new tax on gaming machines (page 4 HERE if you are bored – opens pdf) :

It also meant that the total impact on Exchequer revenues across the two rates is “negligible” 5.

What, you ask, is negligible to our masters?

Well, here is footnote number 5 :

5 Where a costing is less than £3m in absolute value, the costing is deemed to negligible and presented as ‘neg’ rather than showing a numerical value.

If only I could class my outgoings of less than £3 million as not worth recording!