Reply to: More tax dodgers

[DimPrawn]

I bet half the tory cabinet are on this and their friends Could be scandal of the millenium

Yeah, like Phoney Blair isn't one of them.

[proggy]

I bet half the tory cabinet are on this and their friends Could be scandal of the millenium

[doodab]

I totally agree, they preach living within your means yet that's never taken into account as they squeeze more and more out of you. This tax dodger rhetoric is just a distraction from how bad things are and also to appease the fickle mob.

The trouble is that government have bought into a definition of living within your means which is more along the lines of trying (and often failing) not to borrow more than you can afford the repayments on. Broadly speaking it's this misguided behaviour they are preaching, and encouraging with policy, not actually living within ones means.

[The Spartan]

Well there´s that, but what really gets to me is that however much we pay (52% above 60k euros here), it's never enough and our governments get us into deeper and deeper tulip by always spending more than the taxpayer can raise. That's why I understand the tax dodgers; they're just sick of throwing good money after bad, but they've got the means to partially avoid that.

I totally agree, they preach living within your means yet that's never taken into account as they squeeze more and more out of you. This tax dodger rhetoric is just a distraction from how bad things are and also to appease the fickle mob.

[Mich the Tester]

It's not that I mind paying tax it's the fact that I have no say in what it gets spent on that grips my tulip.

Well there´s that, but what really gets to me is that however much we pay (52% above 60k euros here), it's never enough and our governments get us into deeper and deeper tulip by always spending more than the taxpayer can raise. That's why I understand the tax dodgers; they're just sick of throwing good money after bad, but they've got the means to partially avoid that.

[The Spartan]

I am very disappointed in this thread. I came here expecting advice on how to pay less tax into the broken tax and spend system of a typical European government.

It's not that I mind paying tax it's the fact that I have no say in what it gets spent on that grips my tulip.

[cojak]

You mean annoyed it's in the news and slightly worried that he or some of his colleagues might be on the list?

[Mich the Tester]

I'm just suprised no ones started a tax dodgers religion yet

Indeed, because our governments seem to have started a scrounging lazy git religion.

[amcdonald]

I'm just suprised no ones started a tax dodgers religion yet

[Mich the Tester]

I am very disappointed in this thread. I came here expecting advice on how to pay less tax into the broken tax and spend system of a typical European government.

[vetran]

400 Gb of data received by HMRC - it woud be interesting to know the story behind that data leakage

Assanges ticket to Ecuador?

[doodab]

That would be a political 'shocked'.

You mean annoyed it's in the news and slightly worried that he or some of his colleagues might be on the list?

[bless 'em all]

It is understood the files were handed to tax authorities three years ago but were kept a closely guarded secret until the unstructured data was put in usable form.

One of Suity's ETL projects then?

[Doggy Styles]

The chancellor is said to be shocked. Should we have someone that naive in his position?

That would be a political 'shocked'. It would be naive to expect any politician to say much else.

[DimPrawn]

You ain't seen me, right?