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.

i doubt the bible would have differentiated between east and west
perhaps just a misquote of "east is east and west is west and ne'er the twain shall meet" (kipling)

Rudyard or Mr .

The Book of Isaiah says that the Messiah will conquer the East and the West, and all nations of the world will come under His shadow, that His Kingdom will be established, that He will come from an unknown place, that the sinners will be judged, and that justice will prevail to such a degree that the wolf and the lamb, the leopard and the kid, the sucking child and the asp, shall all gather at one spring, and in one meadow, and one dwelling.
But not in my lifetime.

JB.

As deluded as ever!

thought it was the lion and the lamb, but i'm wrong ...... try lion and calf ..... anyway, much prefer the cadence of the king james version :-)

THE PM must resign as a liar is family are a bunch of crooks .

tax fiddling bastards while the working class pay all their taxes
is family do everthing to fiddle theirs the man is a bloody disgrace

the same has the EU is family get millions in subsides from the eu via the uk tax payers .

vote out

never thought I would ever agree with corbyn but on this latest tax fiddling he is correct Cameron and the rest must have an inquire into the fiddling

Iceland's PM resigns.

Cameron should do the same.

Birds of a feather.

How much interest do Cameron and his wife have from "savings"?????

Nothing necessarily wrong with using a tax shelter. Avoiding tax is legal and quite moral.

Haze,

Pop down to Central office and ask them how to spin the offshore tax "avoidance" schemes.

Friends in high places?

What a bunch.

I am glad Manuel,JB and Vicky support them with their votes.

i recollect that even fred has taken steps to minimise his iht liabilities ..... and why not indeed?

i've written similar b4, but for those of a sanctimonious and/or jealous disposition, i'll pretty much repeat ....

it has always been perfectly legal to set up family trusts off-shore, though the rules get changed every 5/10 years

if the rules are obeyed - eg declaration to the powers that be - then i have no problem at all

however, and as already voiced, panama has always been a questionable depository
on the other hand, places like channel islands, isle of man and even bermuda are tax havens but properly regulated

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i am not jealous of those who inherit wealth, and indeed i shall take reasonable precautions to minimise my own iht liabilities

why should the taxman steal any more than the fair minimum from my children?

A few weeks ago, Cameroon was spouting on about big overseas co's taking the piss tax wise, tax havens etc.

Then we have the spectacle of our own Prime Minister's family doing exactly the same thing.

He must have known, he cant claim ignorance.

His position is untenable.

It doesn't matter what Cameron's father was doing. It might matter if it was Cameron himself. Who wants to pay more tax than necessary. I would change things so that there was only one rate of tax. Higher earners pay more tax by virtue of earning more. They shouldn't have to pay a higher rate as well. In fact I would make anything over £100,000 tax free. Good luck to anyone who avoids tax, especially to those who pay no tax at all.

A free for all eh Haystack?

Sounds good, how long do you reckon you would last?


btw, Cameroon has made a big thing of saying he and his family have no offshore dealings. Good for him, but what about his mum?

Consider who produces the "wealth" and where the "wealth" is produced.

Why would anyone care what Cameron's mother does with her money? Philip Green who owns Top Shop pays no tax as the company is owned by his wife and is resident in Monaco. There is no tax to pay there. It saved him about £1b in tax in a recent year.

On that basis, you could say why would anyone care what Amazon does with it's money?

Think of it as the Mafia family!