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Brillo's link is to someone trolling in the NTRT thread. Some windup merchant telling them they all deserve it.
To be fair everyone was warned about those schemes at the time, those on them were taking a big risk. Fair play to them to have the cahones to do it, I didn't. My question is will they ever apply a retrospective tax that benefits us. i.e. IR35 is abolished so all those who claimed inside can get all their years of tax back?
So standing in the street shouting "look at that man, he's BLACK. Look, there's loads of black people everywhere" wouldn't be racist because it's true?
To be fair everyone was warned about those schemes at the time, those on them were taking a big risk. Fair play to them to have the cahones to do it, I didn't. My question is will they ever apply a retrospective tax that benefits us. i.e. IR35 is abolished so all those who claimed inside can get all their years of tax back?
I was not warned. And I know of no-one who was. Montpelier were pushing HMRC to go to FTTT. They refused and came up with retrospective.
HMRC have lied and cheated the whole time. Montpelier have proof of this. And MOntpelier have been singled out :-
HMRC hoodwinked Parliament in to passing unprecedented draconian retrospective legislation. There have been unlawful raids on Montpelier's offices. Arrests without charge. Clients and staff interviewed under caution. Then the collapse of WG's trial.
There is further evidence in this recent FTT case. Note how HMRC attempted to treat Montpelier clients far more harshly than other promoters. It didn't work because the FTT ruled against them.
HMRC probably only did a deal with George because we was a deGraaf client, not Montpelier.
I don't think it is any coincidence that we are the first contractors to receive APNs. And this is despite the fact that HMRC know full well they are chancing their arm issuing them to us because the Montpelier scheme was not notifiable under DOTAS.
The question of legality/morality was over long ago. The question of retrospection being right or wrong is over too. Now it is about whether HMRC can lie and mislead parliament.
To be fair everyone was warned about those schemes at the time, those on them were taking a big risk. Fair play to them to have the cahones to do it, I didn't. My question is will they ever apply a retrospective tax that benefits us. i.e. IR35 is abolished so all those who claimed inside can get all their years of tax back?
Cojones
Your last question indicates the medicine is wearing off. They are more likely to retrospectively raise the age of consent to 51 so they can fine people for having sex!
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