Gary's back! BBC back down. Hurrah!

[The Bedlington Terrier]

I despise millionaire tax dodgers mon ami, I pay my taxes, why should Jug Ears be allowed to get away with working for the BBC and getting paid by the BBC, but participating in a tax avoidance arrangement that means he doesn't have to pay £4.9 million of tax which should have gone to the exchequer to help run the country. If millionaires like Jug Ears don't pay their dues then the rest of us mugs, who play by the rules, have to make up the difference. One law for them, one for us.

I'm not his accountant mon ami, but by all accounts he has fully paid up what he owed. I may be the most radical exponent of left-wing socialism on this forum but paying unnecessary taxes to the ruling classes is not my forte either.

[sinkov]

I'm not his accountant mon ami, but by all accounts he has fully paid up what he owed. I may be the most radical exponent of left-wing socialism on this forum but paying unnecessary taxes to the ruling classes is not my forte either.

I'm amazed you aren't aware of the tax avoidance scam that the BBC and numerous celebrities were partaking of, robbing the exchequer and by extension the NHS, of much needed funds. When I get the time I'll describe the broad outlines of how it works. Sadly the millionaire celebs can afford better lawyers than the taxpayer funded HMRC can. So me and you mon ami will just have to suck it up and keep paying our taxes, while Jug Ears and his ilk just laugh at us.

[The Bedlington Terrier]

I'm amazed you aren't aware of the tax avoidance scam that the BBC and numerous celebrities were partaking of, robbing the exchequer and by extension the NHS, of much needed funds. When I get the time I'll describe the broad outlines of how it works. Sadly the millionaire celebs can afford better lawyers than the taxpayer funded HMRC can. So me and you mon ami will just have to suck it up and keep paying our taxes, while Jug Ears and his ilk just laugh at us.

Fully on board with it mon ami. Me and an old mucker used a paradigm similar to the IR35 when we had offices in Sterling, Virginia and San Jose in California. We were self-employed "advisors" and paid virtually nowt.

On the other hand I was supporting three ex-wives and putting three kids through university. Do the math!

[The Bedlington Terrier]

Reading: "Last month Mr Lineker's lawyer James Rivett KC told a preliminary hearing in London that the star had been "dragged through the papers accused of not paying income tax which has been paid", and claimed there was a political element to the investigations."

You can bet your ranch it was!

[sinkov]

Of course there was a political element to it mon ami, it was the previous Labour government's attempts to clamp down on tax dodgers that led to the start of the investigations, although I would think they were aiming to catch tax dodging Tories in their net, not virtue signalling Lefty tw@ts like Jug Ears.

"The rules from the HMRC go back more than 20 years with the Government clamping down on freelancers by encouraging their bosses to set up individual trading companies."

And yet more evidence as to why the storm in a tea cup suited the tax dodging tweeter so well.

"As HMRC are going to classify that his extensive work for BT Sport and BBC should make him an employee for tax purposes, this would mean that the HMRC would need to prove the two sports entertainment companies had control over him or he had editorial independence."

'So there you are m'lud, as my clients tweets show, the BBC had no control over him whatsoever.' 'You're welcome Mr Lineker, I'll send you the bill, was it 15% of the £4.9 million we agreed on ?'.

Money grubbing Lefty scum.

[The Bedlington Terrier]

Of course there was a political element to it mon ami, it was the previous Labour government's attempts to clamp down on tax dodgers that led to the start of the investigations, although I would think they were aiming to catch tax dodging Tories in their net, not virtue signalling Lefty tw@ts like Jug Ears.

"The rules from the HMRC go back more than 20 years with the Government clamping down on freelancers by encouraging their bosses to set up individual trading companies."

And yet more evidence as to why the storm in a tea cup suited the tax dodging tweeter so well.

"As HMRC are going to classify that his extensive work for BT Sport and BBC should make him an employee for tax purposes, this would mean that the HMRC would need to prove the two sports entertainment companies had control over him or he had editorial independence."

'So there you are m'lud, as my clients tweets show, the BBC had no control over him whatsoever.' 'You're welcome Mr Lineker, I'll send you the bill, was it 15% of the £4.9 million we agreed on ?'.

Money grubbing Lefty scum.

It's a minefield sinkov and I'm not even going to start on the Tory Party...

https://www.crunch.co.uk/knowledge-t...s-came-unstuck