Reply to: Panama Papers: David Cameron to publish six years of tax returns

[NotAllThere]

It's not masterclass, it's incompetence of the highest order.

It's good enough to fool idiots.

[SimonMac]

TL;DR

But has anyone actually said why he has to publish them? Its not like it will show anything dodgy as if he is "avoiding" tax it won't show up, I would be more interested in where an MP's additional income comes from which I believe already exists in the register of interests.

[DimPrawn]

"Watch and learn, class, watch and learn. This is how it's done. Note how he sounds apologetic, but doesn't actually say sorry. Note how he makes himself look honourable by telling his audience not to blame his advisers, even though nobody was blaming them, they were blaming him… self-preservation dressed up expertly as candid mea culpa."

Valuable lesson for contractors. When the project goes tits up, sound apologetic but don't actually apologise. Ask the client management not to blame the architect, PM or the testers..Suity are you reading this?

[jamesbrown]

Cracking sketch in the Telegraph by Michael Deacon: How a sorry-looking David Cameron gave a masterclass in political spin

"Watch and learn, class, watch and learn. This is how it's done. Note how he sounds apologetic, but doesn't actually say sorry. Note how he makes himself look honourable by telling his audience not to blame his advisers, even though nobody was blaming them, they were blaming him… self-preservation dressed up expertly as candid mea culpa."

Yeah, good read; on the money

[AtW]

It's not masterclass, it's incompetence of the highest order.

[NickFitz]

Cracking sketch in the Telegraph by Michael Deacon: How a sorry-looking David Cameron gave a masterclass in political spin

"Watch and learn, class, watch and learn. This is how it's done. Note how he sounds apologetic, but doesn't actually say sorry. Note how he makes himself look honourable by telling his audience not to blame his advisers, even though nobody was blaming them, they were blaming him… self-preservation dressed up expertly as candid mea culpa."

[AtW]

And replace it with who precisely. There are rather a lot of people in this world who really do not see how consequences of actions play out

Moi?

I'll make recruitment margins to be at least 30%.

What say ya?

[mudskipper]

And replace it with who precisely. There are rather a lot of people in this world who really do not see how consequences of actions play out

whom

[SantaClaus]

So Cameron's tax returns have been published...

... but surely if he was EVADING tax, that particular income would NOT be on his tax return...

Or am I missing something?

[DodgyAgent]

No, that's rubbish - Tory party needs to be out of power unless they cut taxes, that should be super clear to them - no tax cuts then fook right arf.

And replace it with who precisely. There are rather a lot of people in this world who really do not see how consequences of actions play out

[shaunbhoy]

Did you read what I wrote?

Does anyone......apart from insomniacs?

[darmstadt]

And do the people who go after tax care when:

[BlasterBates]

This is a bit like the difference between an rolls and a bentley.

Completely different makes, but in the eyes of the public both owned and run by rich elite arseholes.

For Cameron to say Carr is abhorrent for driving a bentley, whilst he drives a rolls, is absurd.

No

Cameron earnt 130 grand say paid 40 grand in tax and invested 30 grand from the remaining 90 grand in a fund.

The fund pays him a 5% dividend which Cameron taxes at Uk tax rates. At the end of several years he gets a pay out and declares this in the UK.

The investors don't avoid any tax whatsoever. The fund itself avoids tax.

A better comparison would be buying a coffee at Starbucks. When you buy a coffee at Starbucks you don't avoid tax, but Starbucks does. It is exactly the same. Cameron avoided no tax, but the fund company did. You could compare Cameron's father to Jimmy Carr, perhaps depending on how he set up the fund, though I suspect strongly it is above board, but not Cameron.

Jimmy Carr in contrast earnt 200 grand and paid no tax at all. This is completely different.

I didn't vote for Cameron, but on this he's completely innocent and in no way a hypocrite.

[PurpleGorilla]

HAs anyone noticed how quiet the SNP has been over this?

All of Scotland's money is offshore.

[minestrone]

One might suggest that their biggest donors have been named in the papers...

oh wait..