Thought Id start this one going because its rather dead on this board at the moment and I suppose all my usual muckers are either at the Stella tennis event watching Dim Tim (lose again) or at Henly Regatta eating cucumber sandwiches (they wish,...NOT).

Anyway please feel free to just talk to yourself blast away and let it go on any company or subject you wish. Just wish Id thought of this one before.

cheers GF.

MrT - just as you have a right, within certain limitations, to shout your head off about things you do not like in this country, so others have a similar right

fred - i'm not sure when "my time" was, but as it's prob available on kindle at some knockdown price, i may well invest .... meanwhile i am thoroughly enjoying philippa gregory's "the king's curse"

cynic no you are wrong we gave them shelter to make a new life in the uk now they want to turn it in to a Asian country if they do not like our way of life then leave

I could not go to a Asian country and run down their way of life and would not

price Charles statement was correct .

as a non believer I find all religions stupid and people praying to a myth and fairy tale dreamt up for the simple uneducated dimwits they is no god its a fairy tale

Fairy tales go down quite well with the great unwashed, look at what the politicians spout (and expect to be believed)

MrT - ALL muslims????? .... what absolute rubbish, and indeed, the asians and muslims as a general group have enriched this country incalculably both culturally and financially

so why are they not protesting about their faith being used to murder people .the answer is simple they support them not one protest about isil silent and backing them via collects . so come on cynic why are they not speaking out in the view of the uk public . they never will stab in the back yes

the scum they call john the murderer family must be in the uk and a lot of muslims in the uk no who this scum is yet no one will name him why come oncynic answer the questions . or stop covering for them

HSBC bank 'helped clients dodge millions in tax'

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Was this Tory government was aware of this for 4years and preferred ot hide their mates away while prosecuting Welfare false claimants?

Is Austria involved in washing the funds of "hard working tax payers"?

Good tory standards.


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HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) was given the leaked data in 2010 and has identified 1,100 people who had not paid their taxes. But almost five years later, only one tax evader has been prosecuted.

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Panorama
Watch Panorama: The Bank of Tax Cheats on BBC One on 9 February at 20.30 GMT or later on the BBC iPlayer.


HMRC said £135m in tax, interest and penalties have now been paid by those who hid their assets in Switzerland.



How much was paid into tory party slush funds as tips?

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Is the tory party attempting to cover up corrupt practice?

Interesting this one Fred, might have legs.

take a look at who has investments with the hedge funds given free stamp duty on sharedealings look at the top gov mps investing it stinks of corruption no wonder they leave gov very rich

stan .... which what is interesting? ..... if it's MrT's ravings, they make fred and the late GF look tongue-tied :-)

Mr T needs to do some more thinking before posting.

more thinking?????
ANY would be a good start i'm afraid, but never mind, he's pretty harmless, much as were those who used to shout the odds at Speaker's Corner

cynic I am a honest good person who lives by the rules of life treat people as you would like to be treated your self , that is our to live but alas you help people to escape persecution then they turn on the people that helped them

hmm!
seems to me that you are pretty xenophobic

Stan.

Flogged my holding of HSBC.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-31248913

Mind the tory needed to promote Green to the House of Lords.


"The thousands of pages of data were obtained by the French newspaper Le Monde. In a joint investigation, the documents have now been passed to the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, the Guardian newspaper, Panorama and more than 50 media outlets around the world.

The documents include details of almost 7,000 British clients - and many of the accounts were not declared to the taxman.

HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) was given the leaked data in 2010 and has identified 1,100 people who had not paid their taxes. But almost five years later, only one tax evader has been prosecuted.

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Find out more

Panorama
Watch Panorama: The Bank of Tax Cheats on BBC One on 9 February at 20.30 GMT or later on the BBC iPlayer.

BBC iPlayer
Read HSBC's response in full
HMRC said £135m in tax, interest and penalties have now been paid by those who hid their assets in Switzerland.

But the chairwoman of the Public Accounts Committee, Margaret Hodge MP, said: "I just don't think the tax authorities have been strong enough, assertive enough, brave enough, tough enough in securing for the British taxpayer the monies that are due."

HSBC did not just turn a blind eye to tax evaders - in some cases it broke the law by actively helping its clients.

The bank gave one wealthy family a foreign credit card so they could withdraw their undeclared cash at cashpoints overseas.

HSBC also helped its tax-dodging clients stay ahead of the law.

When the European Savings Directive was introduced in 2005, the idea was that Swiss banks would take any tax owed from undeclared accounts and pass it to the taxman.

It was a tax designed to catch tax evaders. But instead of simply collecting the money, HSBC wrote to customers and offered them ways to get round the new tax.

HSBC denies that all these account holders were evading tax.

'Dodge liabilities'
Richard Brooks, a former tax inspector and author of The Great Tax Robbery, said: "I think they were a tax avoidance and tax evasion service. I think that's what they were offering. They knew full well that people come to them to dodge their tax liabilities."

The bank now faces criminal investigations in the US, France, Belgium and Argentina. HSBC said it is "co-operating with relevant authorities". But in the UK, where the bank is based, no such action has been taken.

Stephen Green"

Is the Tory spokesman defending his mates and slush fund donations?

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I don't think Cameron would be fit to rule over a banana republic.

The documents include details of almost 7,000 British clients - and many of the accounts were not declared to the taxman.

HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) was given the leaked data in 2010 and has identified 1,100 people who had not paid their taxes. But almost five years later, only one tax evader has been prosecuted.


One can see why the public do not trust this government, and consider copying them by tax "evasion".

Interesting thought, was Osborne and IDS screwing the poorest when turning a blind eye to the "tax" dodging of their mates?

What a period in the UK "democracy".


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Where is GF when I need him?

fred it stinks of corruption and is corruption .have gov cabinet ministers invested in hedge funds

naughty boy fred ..... i confess i haven't really looked at this story, but from what i gather much of this HSBC stuff dates back to around 2007/8 and earlier ..... am i wrong? ..... it would be ingenuous to think that all major banks from both uk and usa are not also involved

however, i thoroughly agree that HMRC is great at pursuing the easy targets - eg the chap who owes £500 to say £5,000 - but runs a mile from or makes a total cock-up of prosecuting the major players

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on that score, it'll be interesting to see how this very complex film investment case pans out, though that will probably run and run for another 2/3 years with the various appeals from whichever side

as i understand it, a good number of years ago, the gov't encouraged people to support the film industry, for which they received tax breaks

at least one of these companies invested in several films that were great box-office successes
HMRC is now arguing that the investment was just tax avoidance, and though not evasion, should still be classed as evasion

Obama as made the USA the enemy of the free world . the yanks are fleecing all foreign companies to protect their or own companies . the world should start to kick out all American companies . mc donalds killing our children along with kc feeding them shit