Off Topic Political Debate

Agreed and there is a difference between using the legislation and wanton tax evasion and money laundering and the further corruption we see from some heads of state, army generals, etc etc

 

Yes agreed

 

All of this is a battle by the US to close down the offshore registrations and bring them in border to Delaware where exactly the same "advantages" exist. Don't for one minute think these "leaks" are not the result of big government action.... http://www.bizfilings.com/learn/incorporate-delaware-nevada.aspx

 

I have a sole trader electrician friend who paid a big price when his books did not add up. The tax man did a check and he is still paying the bill about 4 years later.

I also have a friend who is a tax inspector and from what he says there is little resource for spot checks and following up different professions on a rotating basis like there. used to.

 

One of the biggest legal tax gains in the UK, which I'm shortly going to benefit from, is reclaiming VAT on a self build. I'm not sure there are any other schemes like this in Europe. I think in most european countries you have to repay the gain if sold within a certain number of years.

 

Fat chance of that though when HMRC's own HQ is registered in Jersey and 600 or so of it's offices around UK are registered in Bermuda. All in the name of tax avoidance.

 

Wasn't the BBC and some councils paying executives by use of dodgy companies?

 

I'd say they certainly know about it and, for reasons we can only speculate on, chose to do nothing about it.

Imagine for a minute that you have the opportunity to become a whistleblower - you have the names of some establishment figures who are complicit in the HSBC scandal. What would you have thought upon reading this?

- and then realised that the CEO of HSBC had just been made a life peer...

 

Interesting read here...

http://www.theguardian.com/news/201...fshore-firms-revealed-in-leaked-panama-papers

And David Cameron's dad was apparently at it big time. What a surprise!!!

 

And when quizzed about whether the family money was still invested in dad's dodgy fund, the response was "That's private."
Yet Cameron seems to think that our phone calls, emails and internet history are all his business, not 'private'. Arsehole that he is.

 

Don't start me on the 'Snoopers Charter'...

Most things seem to be 'private' for a select few individuals, but the plebs have to give away all their rights and freedoms...

 

Lord Owen, the ex doctor, health minister and foreign secretary has declared quitting the EU would protect the NHS from outside interference. He especially outlined the dangers from TTIP with American health providers targeting the NHS.

 

And the only opposition to TTIP within Britain comes from Labour and the Greens - good to remember !

 

I think those BREXPERTS quoting sovereignty as a big issue need consider their positions re TTIP....

 

Quite ironic, the UK could be spared TTIP whilst those in the EU are stuck with it.

 

The EU TTIP negotiations exclude the NHS

 

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By the time it happens - if it happens - there won't be one.

In England anyway...

 

You realise that to trade with the US, one of the things you think the UK should do as soon as they leave the EU, they will have to sign a variation of TTIP that will probably be even less favourable to us?

Of course you do, you're just desperate to find any reason to point-score over Brexit.

 

Cameron is done for now, these Panama Paper leaks have tainted him. Osbourne is incompetent and BoJo has been made to look like a fool.

The Tories are toxic and everyone now knows it. Polls are showing that Labour/Tories are on an equal footing right now, in a few years time they'll have a 20+ point lead.

Corbyn 2020