green Posted July 1, 2012 Share Posted July 1, 2012 we should be in a position to say 'go and live in the bloody channel islands you greedy nacissistic scumbags', if you want to visit the country you're ripping off, apply for a visa or pay your tax' - but then we'd have no senior tories or tony blair - hang on, might have hit on something here!! I like it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rupert_Baehr Posted July 1, 2012 Share Posted July 1, 2012 ...we should be in a position to say 'go and live in the bloody channel islands you greedy nacissistic scumbags', if you want to visit the country you're ripping off, apply for a visa or pay your tax' - but then we'd have no senior tories or tony blair - hang on, might have hit on something here!! Why should Channel Islanders have to put up with (even more) dross from the UK? If (and I can't remember the figure) Barlow paid 1% of his income in taxes, he wouldn't do very well in the Channel Islands, where the top rate (and also the bottom rate) is 20%. There are ways of avoiding taxes in the Islands - but rather fewer than there are in the UK. If the government is concerned about tax avoidance, change the laws. If people find loopholes in the new laws, change the people who make the laws - give the job to somebody who can get it right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frank ryan Posted July 1, 2012 Share Posted July 1, 2012 Why should Channel Islanders have to put up with (even more) dross from the UK? If (and I can't remember the figure) Barlow paid 1% of his income in taxes, he wouldn't do very well in the Channel Islands, where the top rate (and also the bottom rate) is 20%. There are ways of avoiding taxes in the Islands - but rather fewer than there are in the UK. If the government is concerned about tax avoidance, change the laws. If people find loopholes in the new laws, change the people who make the laws - give the job to somebody who can get it right. agree, but turkeys dont vote for xmas - cameron's dad was a tax cheat, as are most of the upper echelon of or society (where the power lies), big corporates don't waste their precious cash on paying taxes and it was revealed recently that many top civil servants have their salaries paid into front companies to get the 20% rate -we're being screwed, not by the unemployed, the sick or the foreign, but by a bunch of bandits who both own the wealth of this 'cuntry', and control it politically Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeffrey Shaw Posted July 1, 2012 Share Posted July 1, 2012 As well as the Kings of Rock, it's the Rolling Stones who are are the Kings of tax avoidance! They can't get no Satisfaction. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carosio Posted July 1, 2012 Share Posted July 1, 2012 They can't get no Satisfaction. or this: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyclone Posted July 2, 2012 Share Posted July 2, 2012 agree, but turkeys dont vote for xmas - cameron's dad was a tax cheat, as are most of the upper echelon of or society (where the power lies), big corporates don't waste their precious cash on paying taxes and it was revealed recently that many top civil servants have their salaries paid into front companies to get the 20% rate -we're being screwed, not by the unemployed, the sick or the foreign, but by a bunch of bandits who both own the wealth of this 'cuntry', and control it politically You don't magically get a 20% rate by using a ltd company. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Graham Posted July 2, 2012 Share Posted July 2, 2012 agree, but turkeys dont vote for xmas - cameron's dad was a tax cheat, as are most of the upper echelon of or society (where the power lies), big corporates don't waste their precious cash on paying taxes and it was revealed recently that many top civil servants have their salaries paid into front companies to get the 20% rate -we're being screwed, not by the unemployed, the sick or the foreign, but by a bunch of bandits who both own the wealth of this 'cuntry', and control it politically Of course cash in hand builders, plumbers, electricians, scrap metal thieves, benefits cheats are all scrupulously honest in their tax affairs aren't they Frank? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frank ryan Posted July 2, 2012 Share Posted July 2, 2012 Of course cash in hand builders, plumbers, electricians, scrap metal thieves, benefits cheats are all scrupulously honest in their tax affairs aren't they Frank? no they're not, but they are all committing CRIMES, by doing it they risk charge conviction and imprisonment. pretend to be an employee of some non existent jersey company, pretend that the money they pass to you is a loan and trouser 99% of it and that's entirely legal! not fraud lie about the libor rate and make a fortune -naughty,apparently , but not fraud it makes no sense unless you think that there is a social and economic elite for whom the law does not apply who must be left in peace to fiddle lie and cheat their way out of tax. just don't do a few hours behind a bar when your signing on - you'll be treated very differently Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carosio Posted July 2, 2012 Share Posted July 2, 2012 no they're not, but they are all committing CRIMES, by doing it they risk charge conviction and imprisonment. As far as I'm aware, there's nothing illegal about being paid in cash for goods or services, shops do it all the time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chieffee Posted July 2, 2012 Share Posted July 2, 2012 8 out of 10 Cats was brilliant last week Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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