OT: Oh no, not politics again (PLEASE DON'T LOOK IF EASILY OFFENDED)

[SmiffyPie]

They're all in the trough, just as many Lab as Con at it. As would any on here posting about it if they had the dosh to make it worthwhile.

[seriouspie]

They're all in the trough, just as many Lab as Con at it. As would any on here posting about it if they had the dosh to make it worthwhile.

Correct answer ....... Also Simon McCoy made to look an amateur when interviewing the chap who heads the offshore investment funds this afternoon. As the bloke said - all the media do is blow everything up without the true facts and McCoy should know these facts before spouting off. He explained the true position and McCoy quickly ended the interview.

Very true Smiffy ....... we'd all do it ....... I bet the BBC don't replay the interview. Isn't this once again the politics of envy coming out. Easy to criticise from the touchline so to speak. Could I just throw in the idiotic pop stars, footballers, so called comedians etc etc who all do the same thing.

[sidders]

They're all in the trough, just as many Lab as Con at it. As would any on here posting about it if they had the dosh to make it worthwhile.

Smiffy, this is not a Labour v Conservative issue.
Those who avoid paying their fair share put the squeeze on the rest of us come budget time.
As for Banjo equating an ISA with offshore tax-dodging: an ISA is an approved government saving scheme to encourage savers (without them the country is flucked); tax-dodging serves no one other than the subject and her employees. It would be illegal if the government could get its act together, except many of them are implicated by association.

[SmiffyPie]

Smiffy, this is not a Labour v Conservative issue.
Those who avoid paying their fair share put the squeeze on the rest of us come budget time.
As for Banjo equating an ISA with offshore tax-dodging: an ISA is an approved government saving scheme to encourage savers (without them the country is flucked); tax-dodging serves no one other than the subject and her employees. It would be illegal if the government could get its act together, except many of them are implicated by association.

Well it shouldn't be a party political issue, the whole idea of NOT paying due tax is disgraceful. However you opened with TM and JC comments, you set the scene for a semi-political response, then Mapperley chirped in with the Tory mates thing and on it went.
Tax avoidance,tax breaks, tax relief should all be illegal. You make your money within this country and or from the population of this country (consumers or workers) you should be obliged to pay your due tax into this country. No argument.

[BanjoPie]

Where did the this thread change tack?

[sidders]

Well it shouldn't be a party political issue, the whole idea of NOT paying due tax is disgraceful. However you opened with TM and JC comments, you set the scene for a semi-political response, then Mapperley chirped in with the Tory mates thing and on it went.
Tax avoidance,tax breaks, tax relief should all be illegal. You make your money within this country and or from the population of this country (consumers or workers) you should be obliged to pay your due tax into this country. No argument.

The opening post was lifted directly from today's online version of the Grauniad with some judicious editing.

[i961pie]

The opening post was lifted directly from today's online version of the Grauniad with some judicious editing.

Where else would you get your usual biased views from, what a surprise.