BBC advises stars on avoiding tax

**Zippy** · 4 October 2009, 03:34

Nice - now perhaps Hector will leave the rest of us alone for a while

You have to laugh at the politicians outrage though. <cough> Expenses?

**GreenerGrass** · 4 October 2009, 08:02

Likewise, I trust that anyone objecting to tax-minimizing has resisted the urge to open an ISA?

LOL at that comment.

**swamp** · 4 October 2009, 09:16

Looks like they are just ignoring IR35. I wonder if Paxman could send a substitute for Newsnight...?

**threaded** · 4 October 2009, 09:40

Originally posted by swamp View Post

Looks like they are just ignoring IR35. I wonder if Paxman could send a substitute for Newsnight...?

Silly billy, the luvies more or less all support the New Lie, so such things don't apply to them.

**TykeMerc** · 4 October 2009, 09:44

Originally posted by swamp View Post

Looks like they are just ignoring IR35. I wonder if Paxman could send a substitute for Newsnight...?

This case screams of IR35 failure on so many levels. Of course because these are "celebrities" I have no doubt that they will receive different treatment from the likes of us...

**Sysman** · 4 October 2009, 10:00

I suppose it's easy to miss, but it's there at the end of many a Beeb radio show in the form of "This programme was brought to you by XYZ Productions".

**scooterscot** · 4 October 2009, 10:09

I really do dread the next number of years on this island as the state appears only to have eyes for squeezing more cash out of the taxpayers.

1) We bail out the banks without having a say

2) We then are required to reduce the deflect, not of our making, through increased taxes - some thank you.

3) And if 2 does not work our sovereignty shall be weakened and our defences lowered.

Is there not some button, some emergency law something than can allow us to sack the government with immediate effect?

**TykeMerc** · 4 October 2009, 10:23

Originally posted by scooterscot View Post

Is there not some button, some emergency law something than can allow us to sack the government with immediate effect?

Yep, convince the Queen to break with convention and order the dissolution of Parliament, she may be reluctant as a previous monarch who did this wound up with his head chopped off.

**d000hg** · 4 October 2009, 11:43

TV/radio presenters are more legitimate as companies than most contractors I reckon... they tend to work with multiple clients (e.g on different channels, writing books, endorsing stuff) and I bet they decide what and how much work they put in.

BBC advises stars on avoiding tax