I'm not a massive F1 fan, but I'll watch it I've got nothing else on. It's been great today, exciting start, a few cars out and the safety car out half way through the first lap. First and second on the grid were third and forth by the first corner, Hamilton got himself straight back into second, but then overcooked it and dropped back to third, the two Williams drivers are currently racing each other at the front. It's more entertaining than normal and there's an incredible 140,000 in attendance.
It's a good spectacle. I went last year - the Porsche Cup racing they had on before the F1 was excellent. The volume of helicopters landing and taking off at Silverstone on the day is absolutely mind boggling.
Problem is they close the A43 all day, means the rest of Oxfordshire is gridlocked. How is a bloke meant to get to the garden centre...
Yeah well done for avoiding paying tax on his new £33 million a year earnings Absolute disgrace If our politicians and footballers avoided paying tax people would be in uproar
So you think it's right that someone earning 33 million pays no tax but somebody on £20,000 does Greedy little bastard sling in Jensen Button and Chris froome aswel
Again, would you? He's enough money to escape paying tax, it's the way of the world, why would anyone voluntarily give away half their earnings when they didn't have to? It's just jealousy to begrudge those with the privelege.
Would like to have seen Williams take the win today but Massa's big head put an end to that. I saw Hamilton take his first win round Silverstone in 2005 GP2, ten years on watched him win today but in those years can't say he has really endeared himself to me like Schumi/Mansell and others did, definitely a living legend regardless
No it's a bloody disgrace that he parades the Union Jack but doesn't contribute If he wants to do that he can parade under another flag then I hVe no prob
I'm with Southwest on this. I'm sure Lewis has done nothing illegal but it's a bit like farting in a crowded lift, it's not against the law but you know you shouldn't do it.
Not really, he earns his money by working all over the world and lives in Monaco, what makes you think Britain deserves to take his money, simply because it was his place of birth?
Because he earns some of it in UK. He lives in Monaco, and before that Switzerland, precisely for tax avoidance reasons.
It's driving round and round in circles in what must be the most tedious "sport" ever invented. I dislike anyone who doesn't pay their fair share of taxes, and if he has deliberately moved to avoid paying tax then I dislike him too I'm not a fan
Avoiding isnt illegal though. I agree with Bob. Famous quote Over and over again courts have said that there is nothing sinister in so arranging one's affairs as to keep taxes as low as possible. Everybody does so, rich or poor; and all do right, for nobody owes any public duty to pay more than the law demands: taxes are enforced exactions, not voluntary contributions. To demand more in the name of morals is mere cant.
I am a big F1 fan, been to Silverstone a few times but not today unfortunately. Great race, and wonderful win for Lewis.
You are absolutely right, using legal vehicles to reduce tax liability is not illegal and everyone tries to do it, myself included. However there is a grey area as wide as the English Channel where the difference between tax efficiency (legal) and tax evasion (not legal) becomes very blurred and I think this is where the affairs of tax exiles lies. Also, it just stinks a bit when you see him parading the Union Jack around when he contributes proportionately **** all to the country he purports to be so proud of. Have a read of this, it makes me feel better about people and Britain than watching Lewis H winning a GP. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-31517383
