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.

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

the children eat because of the fat that is why they are fat the gov should close these places down or tax them heavy

all the talk on hsbc what about the gov allowing their backers to avoid tax and stamp duty . hedge fund gives the tory party 47b its stinks of corruption

are they going to charge the very people who tried to avoid paying their taxes .
they are the criminals .
do the royals pay their taxes
do the cabinet
do the sports people
do the big companies

we all know the answers yet this gov turn a blind eye the old pals act

living wage to keep people out of poverty £260 a week old age pension £113 a week
how do these people exist or do they pay them so low so they will die

well i'm sure that makes sense to someone, but not me!

Then think again.
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HSBC: 'Tax scroungers' let off lightly, says MP Hodge
5 hours ago
Britain's biggest bank helped wealthy clients cheat the UK out of millions of pounds in tax, the BBC has learned.
Panorama has seen thousands of accounts from HSBC's private bank in Switzerland leaked by a whistleblower in 2007.
HSBC admitted that some individuals took advantage of bank secrecy to hold undeclared accounts. But it said it has now "fundamentally changed".
Chair of the Public Accounts Committee Margaret Hodge told the BBC that "benefits scroungers" are being made an example of, while "tax scroungers" are let off lightly.
Read more
HSBC bank 'helped clients dodge millions in tax'

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Cameron’s vow to tackle tax avoidance ‘disingenuous and hypocritical’
Published time: October 31, 2014 18:00


Currencies, Economy, Europe, Finance, Markets, Politics, UK
Multinational firms which exploit loopholes to avoid paying tax in the UK will be pushed to “damn well pay,” David Cameron said on Thursday. The PM’s statement was denounced as disingenuous by global tax expert and UK economist Richard Murphy.

Cameron’s comments follow recent controversy over the manner in which mammoth firms such as Facebook, Google, Apple, Amazon, and Starbucks flout tax on revenues generated in Britain.

Speaking to RT on Friday, Murphy dismissed the prime minister’s pledge to tackle tax avoidance in Britain as hollow rhetoric. Lauded as 2013’s 7th most influential person on the international tax stage, Murphy has been instrumental in placing tax havens on the global agenda. But the economist and anti-poverty campaigner holds little hope for a tangible tax policy shift from the current coalition.

“The problem is that David Cameron’s walk and his talk are completely inconsistent. The truth is that he’s almost always on the side of the companies that are not paying tax,” he said.


http://rt.com/uk/201291-tax-avoidance-hypocritical-cameron/
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Cameron is all mouth and no trousers.

He ponces across the an imaginary like the hollow image he is.

He has done little or nothing to clean up tax avoidance an evasion and the voters know why!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b052sk1h

BBC1 8.30pm tonight for all those people who want off shore tax scrounging exposed... needless to say the "Con" party and other right wing extremists will not watch it... or claim so.

leaked by a whistleblower in 2007
if that reads like it looks as though it does, then what was your mate Mr Brown doing?

Waiting for the Messiah to walk on water as he promised to do!

Check the leak and what it wet!

No mate of mine mate -):

he must surely be one of fractious fred's :-)

It's all relative isn't it.

what is relative to what?

I think somebody should tell the Cameron and his cohorts that if their fathers' wet their beds there is is no need to copy them.

They have irresponsibly governed for the almost 5 years, they could have addressed the problem and haven't.

I think, as many others do, that they did not do so, out of choice!

All of it.

and labour for 13 years before that, and apparently for 3 years after this leak

I'll tell you what : it's not looking to good in Ukraine the way things are going.....never thought that Europe would have another major war ever again...but there you go....I'm surprised gold hasn't rocketed...