tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35009574.post2188123589109976318..comments2023-10-24T14:51:45.756+02:00Comments on Bloggertropolis: 8 Out Of 10 Cats Pay Their Tax The Hard WayStevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02133900289384226725noreply@blogger.comBlogger29125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35009574.post-67556772414258656402012-06-27T14:56:15.875+02:002012-06-27T14:56:15.875+02:00Very Bored in Catalunya: typical Tory double-stand...Very Bored in Catalunya: typical Tory double-standards. Totally sick. And not in the street sense.Stevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02133900289384226725noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35009574.post-91276831202598678862012-06-27T11:30:35.164+02:002012-06-27T11:30:35.164+02:00I don't like Jimmy Carr, never have done, but ...I don't like Jimmy Carr, never have done, but the fact that Cameron chooses him to vilify instead of any number of his cronies (or a well known singer/songwriter who allegedly is part of the same scheme but a generous donator to the Conservative party), makes me sick.<br /><br />All this coming at a time when they have decided that the under 25s don't need housing benefit. <br /><br />Sick, sick, sick.Very Bored in Catalunyahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07695203425270299420noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35009574.post-71159706593131499742012-06-24T20:05:53.412+02:002012-06-24T20:05:53.412+02:00Katriina: all beautifully put into instant perspec...Katriina: all beautifully put into instant perspective.Stevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02133900289384226725noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35009574.post-23499554204151321372012-06-24T12:38:30.738+02:002012-06-24T12:38:30.738+02:00In my early days as a lawyer I worked on some real...In my early days as a lawyer I worked on some real estate financing deals. These were big deals that involved an awful lot of money and many midnight conference calls with our learned colleagues in the Cayman Islands. I remember running into an old school friend back then. She had studied medicine and had decided to specialise in heart surgery. She described her first experience of being flown by helicopter to an accident scene to "harvest" a donor organ, then being flown back to the hospital with the precious cargo, where a surgical team was waiting, the recipient already on the operating table. She was saving lives on a daily basis. She asked me what I was doing. I replied that I helped people with lots of money make even more money. It took me years to actually make a career shift, but that was the first moment I knew it had to happen.Katriinahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08403719183047819222noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35009574.post-64978706210462887492012-06-24T10:46:50.281+02:002012-06-24T10:46:50.281+02:00Marginalia: I will certainly never scale those hei...Marginalia: I will certainly never scale those heights.Stevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02133900289384226725noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35009574.post-43397139681838280862012-06-24T10:21:50.531+02:002012-06-24T10:21:50.531+02:00K2 - more like the twin peaks of Kilimanjaro.K2 - more like the twin peaks of Kilimanjaro.Marginaliahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01175372147298306908noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35009574.post-4490884564552890212012-06-23T15:13:06.364+02:002012-06-23T15:13:06.364+02:00Being Me: I'm just glad you're able to com...Being Me: I'm just glad you're able to comment again. ;-)Stevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02133900289384226725noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35009574.post-65070789332974828562012-06-23T12:51:35.808+02:002012-06-23T12:51:35.808+02:00Yeah. What all your intelligent commenters have al...Yeah. What all your intelligent commenters have already said.Being Mehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08600427311498297800noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35009574.post-86749397782480376282012-06-23T12:25:52.276+02:002012-06-23T12:25:52.276+02:00The Bike Shed: and what better way to deflect scru...The Bike Shed: and what better way to deflect scrutiny of your own activities by casting the glare onto somebody else...? I suspect Jimmy Carr is just the thin end of a rather large media wedge.Stevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02133900289384226725noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35009574.post-3337021431341176432012-06-23T11:51:04.500+02:002012-06-23T11:51:04.500+02:00There's also an interesting difference between...There's also an interesting difference between our attitude to individuals and corporates - frankly every big company does everything possible to avoid tax and not to do so would get the Finance Director the Sack. The Times newspaper is leading the campaign against tax avoidance schemes - what an irony; do we think that News International arranges it's finances to pay HM Customs and Revenue the absolute fair amount? Only a couple of years ago the big account firms were touting a scheme involving the purchase of foreign currency to reclaim against tax allowances - loads of companies did this, I suspect that many media companies ere amongst them.The bike shedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05195882998271591934noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35009574.post-83729542057800934982012-06-23T10:02:45.944+02:002012-06-23T10:02:45.944+02:00Joe: I salute you, sir, and all who sail in you. I...Joe: I salute you, sir, and all who sail in you. I wish you were our PM.Stevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02133900289384226725noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35009574.post-49754014963675917742012-06-23T06:52:30.271+02:002012-06-23T06:52:30.271+02:00Again a symptom of a broken society when we look ...Again a symptom of a broken society when we look to get out of our civic responsibility at every opportunity and claim its ok because its a legal loophole. When we see the rich and (in)famous getting away with financial murder then that dodgy ipad down the pub for £50 doesn't seem so wrong now. Yet the police will kick your door in at 4 in the morning and haul you up the station for it....... so I am told!<br /> When those in a financially favourable position are seen to help out the country by honestly paying what is legally AND morally due then we will see a change of attitude across society, until then if the wealthy few are seen to be getting away with it then every two bit scumbag will have an excuse when caught robbing old ladies handbags outside the post office on pension day!!!!!<br />(pppfffffft..deep breaths, deep breaths....ppppffffftt)joebloggshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02223043749558658665noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35009574.post-42861895418061422912012-06-22T07:52:13.783+02:002012-06-22T07:52:13.783+02:00Nana Go-Go: Clement Attlee was a wise old fish.
J...Nana Go-Go: Clement Attlee was a wise old fish.<br /><br />John: I know. I thought we paid him to be funny!Stevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02133900289384226725noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35009574.post-58813553637680035342012-06-21T23:09:49.265+02:002012-06-21T23:09:49.265+02:00the worst thing Carr has done is to apologise!
not...the worst thing Carr has done is to apologise!<br />not very "new wave comic"<br />not even a pithy lineJohn Going Gentlyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14958171262765033946noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35009574.post-30170866591000571792012-06-21T22:29:17.434+02:002012-06-21T22:29:17.434+02:00'If a rich man wants to help the poor, he shou...'If a rich man wants to help the poor, he should pay his taxes gladly, not dole out money at a whim.' - Clement Attlee said that.Between Me and Youhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04863155145862706966noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35009574.post-27873134819098080952012-06-21T22:13:26.443+02:002012-06-21T22:13:26.443+02:00Suburbia: and there's far too much division go...Suburbia: and there's far too much division going on with my wages at the moment...Stevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02133900289384226725noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35009574.post-3680368699354399142012-06-21T21:55:21.530+02:002012-06-21T21:55:21.530+02:00My thoughts exactly...bloody politicians just make...My thoughts exactly...bloody politicians just make it possible to do such things by not closing the loopholes. It's all part of 'divide and rule' I reckon!Suburbiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05352465945711496612noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35009574.post-83581853245598807672012-06-21T21:41:42.115+02:002012-06-21T21:41:42.115+02:00Owen: let's drop David Cameron off with them a...Owen: let's drop David Cameron off with them and then we can ask him. ;-)Stevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02133900289384226725noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35009574.post-76291559804169507012012-06-21T21:05:00.201+02:002012-06-21T21:05:00.201+02:00IMHO the bankers and all other parasites of their ...IMHO the bankers and all other parasites of their ilk should be flown up to the top of K2 and dropped off there, in their business suits in the middle of the Himalayan winter, and left to fend for themselves. Or would that be morally wrong ?Owenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12622587942009516590noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35009574.post-34401276585016418272012-06-21T19:22:15.347+02:002012-06-21T19:22:15.347+02:00Gorilla Bananas: if I hit the big time, mate, ther...Gorilla Bananas: if I hit the big time, mate, there'll be a cage at Twycross Zoo with your name on it.Stevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02133900289384226725noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35009574.post-13295778834292627092012-06-21T19:11:42.789+02:002012-06-21T19:11:42.789+02:00I suggest you take a course in the Income Tax code...I suggest you take a course in the Income Tax code before pontificating about bleeding obvious loopholes. The scheme they devised sounds like an ingenious bit of financial skulduggery to me. We'll see what you do when you hit the Big Time. Until then, your whining is like the buzzing of a mosquito.Gorilla Bananashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13044093013423635830noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35009574.post-31031796222224542482012-06-21T16:15:36.877+02:002012-06-21T16:15:36.877+02:00Kelloggs Ville: do the rich eat cake or pasties? O...Kelloggs Ville: do the rich eat cake or pasties? Or sausage rolls? I'm very confused on what is poor man's and rich man's food these days.Stevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02133900289384226725noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35009574.post-67356698051738434622012-06-21T16:08:13.301+02:002012-06-21T16:08:13.301+02:00It all makes you realise why we slog and slog and ...It all makes you realise why we slog and slog and still end up turning the settee upside down on a lose change hunt whilst the rich eat cake. I would say if they weren't distracted by the football it's the sort of fuel that burns riots. (the irony being I'm sat here with a cup of tea and a slice of Soreen!)AGuidingLifehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05823333742737762759noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35009574.post-39700982491569565622012-06-21T16:07:39.573+02:002012-06-21T16:07:39.573+02:00Nota Bene: I'm using the same tx avoidance sch...Nota Bene: I'm using the same tx avoidance scheme that Ken Dodd used - I'm stuffing my matress with £20 notes. Another couple of years and I might have enough for half a pillow.Stevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02133900289384226725noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35009574.post-17890158302668205492012-06-21T15:27:26.942+02:002012-06-21T15:27:26.942+02:00I think Mr Carr may have been slightly misleading ...I think Mr Carr may have been slightly misleading when he claimed that the conversation with his financial adviser was that simple. These schemes are pretty sophisticated, require a lot of explanation and provoke some fairly detailed questioning from anyone who's thinking of participating. So from where I sit, he remains in the dog house.<br /><br />And Cameron's lot have been making a lot of noise about tax avoidance/evasion without actually making changes happen...but then given how they've continued to allow the banks to shaft us that's hardly surprising.<br /><br />In the meantime, when the tax man comes chasing me I shall simply say that I have become involved in a tax avoidance scheme by avoiding picking up my pen to write them a cheque....Nota Benehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00969705852180234416noreply@blogger.com