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 that most people have a strong opinion about it either way. Public opinion is a very bad way to measure anything. The majority are wrong about most things. If it is legal then it is fine and I am happy with it.

Haze,

All you need is a corruptible elite in power such as we have now.

Status quo is OK. as long as you think yourself top of the pile and can pull the drawbridge up.

"I doubt that most people have a strong opinion about it either way."

You clearly don't get out much in the real world H/S.

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"Public opinion is a very bad way to measure anything. The majority are wrong about most things."

Again only in your world and others that also conduct themselves as off shore tax scrounges.

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I did ask you not to bring the Law into this subject because it's irrelevant for it.

The law is the only thing that is important. Why not give the government more of your income? Why don't you pay them twice the amount of tax that they want? Why not encourage everyone to pay more tax than they have to? Why not go the whole socialist hog as in Cuba where a doctor gets paid the same as a bus driver because everyone gets paid the same?

It is only the richer people who are asked to pay more than is required by law. The rest pay according to the law.

A typical me me me up the ladder I'm all right Jack post by the "Con" Party voter H/S.

Lefties are certainly amusing.

It is only the richer people who are asked to pay more than is required by law. The rest pay according to the law.


Who is making the requests?

by definition, the wealthier you are, the greater your potential tax liability
the more complicated tax legislation is made, the more loopholes will appear that can be exploited either simply (= fairly) or aggressively (= asking for investigation by hmrc)


as has been pointed out on more than one occasion, (a) hmrc has no interest in morals and (b) if you want fewer loopholes, then lobby for their closure, but don't complain if these loopholes are fairly exploited


few if any people complain about tax allowances for pension contributions and similar, or paying zero tax on 25% of drawdown from their pension pot, or even tax-free benefits of one kind or another ..... so now we're talking about degree not principle

The clique in the cabinet reminds me of the Godfather and cohorts with parts of the UK becoming a banana republic.

More nonsense from Alf.

and why is it nonsense?

Because it doesn't fit his ideology and agenda.

Self explanatory.

in other words stan, you can't think of any flaw or untruth in what i wrote, but you just happen not to like it

Stan asking the same question many times and demanding an answer ,that's a bit hypocritical isn't it Stan ?

And once again juvenile behaviour displayed by the usual suspects.

you're being even more pathetic than usual stan, so i'll switch off for the evening

Cynic.
You are correct, the wealthier get access to plenty of tax benefits the average earner can't take advantage of. What pisses people off is the cheating bastards aren't happy with that and push the boundaries. Cameron is very careful when he protests he is not benefiting now or in future from his dads offshore trust. The fact is the little shit did benefit in the past.
Ps. I'm sure there are top Labourites with funds off shore as well.
We are all in it together may arse!!!

Stan you won't answer any question yet demand an answer from someone else.

So Stan ,IN or OUT the EU ?

Labour takes large donations from hedge fund managers who use offshore tax havens. There are senior Labour people doing the same thing. The Guardian is owned by a company that avoids tax.