Reply to: Lib Dems and HMRC

[Mich the Tester]

Err, isn't that where it all turned to ratsh!t last time?

Yes; it was probably quite well paid ratshyte though.

[SupremeSpod]

Sounds to me like a job creation scheme - employ an extra 1000 civil servants then that's a huge saving in benefits payments.

Surely there's an opening here for some of us on here to get a contract role supporting the new software and infrastructure required to do so??

Err, isn't that where it all turned to ratsh!t last time?

[Dearnla]

Tax evasion by the better off is to be aggressively pursued in a £900million drive which will see the number of people targeted for tax checks rise from 5,000 a year to 150,000.

Sounds to me like a job creation scheme - employ an extra 1000 civil servants then that's a huge saving in benefits payments.

Surely there's an opening here for some of us on here to get a contract role supporting the new software and infrastructure required to do so??

[Gibbon]

Can we all please try and avoid using this rather distasteful word Fair ™ until the meaning of it, as distorted by the worse government ever to have been wreaked upon the people of the UK, has reverted back to its normal parlance?

To be fair Fair can't be quantified fairly due to it's fairly subjective nature.
The previous oligarchy, because we don't live in a democracy-rather an elected oligarchy who can then ignore the people and do want they want, used Fair from their point of view.

[Jog On]

Can we all please try and avoid using this rather distasteful word Fair ™ until the meaning of it, as distorted by the worse government ever to have been wreaked upon the people of the UK, has reverted back to its normal parlance?

I think it has to be used in the same context as phrases like ;- tax avoidance, tax efficient, minimising your liability, in the same league as benefit cheats.. etc

A bit like certain non doms not being tax cheats because they contribute to the economy - there's a concept...

I'm just going to wait and see wht they come up with - then see what the accountants come up with afterwards.

Tax avoidance/efficiency is an industry in it's own right - I don't see those guys going down without a fight

[AtW]

Why do you think Lord Ashcroft has resigned?

He has realised he'll have to pay taxes?

[hyperD]

It's not that, that gets my goat. I completely agree with the sentiment that we should all pay what we owe. Cos that's fair.

Can we all please try and avoid using this rather distasteful word Fair ™ until the meaning of it, as distorted by the worse government ever to have been wreaked upon the people of the UK, has reverted back to its normal parlance?

[SupremeSpod]

The more I read the more I see the middle class/small businesses in the firing line...

If this all starts happening and the MPs/bankers/non doms are stiil getting away with it I hope there is enough uproar..

Why do you think Lord Ashcroft has resigned?

There is going to be a clean sweep.

[Mich the Tester]

Philip Green is NOT a tax avoider or evader! He employs many thousands of British workers and has a right to keep his money abroad because he contributes more to the country than everyone else put together! Also he is financing proper train door handles for your backward British trains!

You on the other hand are dirty speckulants! All of you!

Best wishes, AtW

[Platypus]

Legal tax avoidance, eh?

Well they can start with everyone who has a TESSA, ISA or other tax exempt savings vehicle. Abolish tax relief on pension contributions. Stop all "Duty free" imports (i.e. make the "tax free" limits zero).

[Jog On]

The more I read the more I see the middle class/small businesses in the firing line...

If this all starts happening and the MPs/bankers/non doms are stiil getting away with it I hope there is enough uproar..

[Mich the Tester]

As long as 'everybody' pays fair then I'm OK with that. But if Phillip Green, bank bosses etc and MPs and members of the house of Lords are getting away with not doing it ...

AtW alert!
AtW alert!
AtW alert!

[singhr]

So Danny Alexander avoids CGT on sale of his second home and then has the gall to say I am immoral for avoiding tax. What a c***t.

[Jog On]

I get the impression that the Tories are quietly letting them make these pronouncements.

That makes sense

[SupremeSpod]

Thank you, I plan to do just that (again).

It's alright, we'll get you next time.