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maxwellblue said:
The whole point was that the charities get items that could be sent to third world countries that I believe would welcome things like that. Yes I would have got them cleared from the building but at the time I would rather someone would benefit from them. The disposal cost was minimal so it didn't really come into the equation as we were clearing a lot of other stuff out anyway and no I didn't get anything for them.

I don't really go to pubs these days only wine bars.
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Cushty Rodney
 
Mr Kobayashi said:
I read it as the luxury option that they didn't take rather than they didn't have any at all. Doesn't make sense otherwise.
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Either way it's mainly bollocks. Rich folk tend to have things which is fair enough but this fairytale he's spinning about 80k not being such a great wage and rich folk driving round in a Corsa sxi and having their jollies in Blackpool is.

Not as funny as Dell Boy with his spare 200 pairs of shoes.

All Jimmy Choo no doubt just waiting for an orphan to pick up or get delivered by a Barnardos worker in his Ferrari.
 
Bluemanc100 said:
A great way to frighten companies right off UKPLC... I thought they wanted to promote growth?
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Well both you and I would like to think so but the leaks from inside government (small g) are currently like the "Nightmare before Christmas".
I guess it's to make us feel happier about what taxes we eventually get. Sort of "Phew look what we could have got!
The trouble is if you scare the business and investment horses too much, the economy could well suddenly stop growing and UK PLC suddenly nose dives towards recession.
 
maxwellblue said:
Yep not a penny or as I said a rusty washer to any of them.

Had first hand dealings with them all and they are nothing but a money making scam. In 2001 I bought an old mill which was used for shoe manufacturing. The place was left full of shoes scattered all over the place, probably about 5000 pairs. All I wanted was the place clearing of them so I rang every charity in the book. Said you can have them all, just bring some vans and take them away. The reps from the Red Cross, Oxfam, Help the Aged and more all turned up in their new BMW's and Merc's, had a look round and basically said it was too much effort for them but they would happily accept a cash donation. Ended up skipping them all and after that I vowed I'll never give a penny to charity again.

And yes I would rather my kids blow whatever I leave them on whatever they want rather than it go to some no mark who is too bone idle to get a job or someone that has come over on a boat and put nothing into the country.
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I reckon the reps in the BMWs and Mercs had inherited them.
 
I'm With Stupid said:
But let's be honest, if the large corporations aren't paying any of the tax they're currently supposed to be paying, then increasing the tax rate isn't going to achieve anything. They'll just not be paying a higher rate of tax. What really needs to happen with multinational corporations is a new system where they actually get taxed on immovable assets rather than profits. Starbucks want to run all of their profits through some giant Swiss tax swizz, fine. Tax every one of their coffee shops instead. VAT for Starbucks at 40% instead of 20%. Tax multinational corporations like alcohol, based on the harm they do to the economy.
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There is a global tax regime coming in. These companies have took the piss for too long.
 
hilts said:
Yeah loads of people with houses 500k up to millions and above are car less and dont take holidays.

Why do you keep giving out false figures and false scenarios?
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What a stupid post. I didn't say these people have no car and no holidays you utter muppet. Do you not get at all that people make choices in life in order to help their kids? Maybe that doesn't happen in your brain.
 
Chippy_boy said:
It pleases me to annoy you.

What a stupid post. I didn't say these people have no car and no holidays you utter muppet. Do you not get at all that people make choices in life in order to help their kids? Maybe that doesn't happen in your brain.
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You've always been a huge cock when it comes to money, anyhow carry on with your make believe scenarios you spoilt ****.
 
Read the key takeaways from Starmer’s speech and nothing of a surprise, to be honest.

Would like to see them reverse the NI cuts that Tories made and look to reforming all areas of business, not just rearrange the furniture for the long run.

Hopefully they’ll have enough to bring some of their key pledges to the fore, starting off with the energy and house building pledges. We know it won’t happen overnight but a pick in the ground would be good, to use an analogy.
 
The vast majority of people with money need to get their heads round the fact that they haven't got it through any intrinsic merit, they've just got lucky. It's not something that people want to accept but that doesn't stop it being true and there's a metric shittonne of research to support this.

If a legitimately elected government comes along and wants to redistribute some of that wealth, well then you've just become a bit less lucky than you were before.

Before anyone accuses me of the politics of envy, my beneficiaries will be paying IHT and rightly so.
 
Your last sentence shows what’s wrong with how people view IHT.
Your beneficiaries won’t pay a penny in tax.
Your estate will before they see any of it.
Quite right too.
 
threespires said:
The vast majority of people with money need to get their heads round the fact that they haven't got it through any intrinsic merit, they've just got lucky. It's not something that people want to accept but that doesn't stop it being true and there's a metric shittonne of research to support this.

If a legitimately elected government comes along and wants to redistribute some of that wealth, well then you've just become a bit less lucky than you were before.

Before anyone accuses me of the politics of envy, my beneficiaries will be paying IHT and rightly so.
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How are you measuring the ‘luck’ element?
 
Karl Marx favored inheritance taxes, on the grounds that dead people did not have property rights.

Here’s what he wrote: “A power to dispose of estates forever is manifestly absurd. The earth and the fullness of it belongs to every generation, and the preceding one can have no right to bind it up from posterity. Such extension of property is quite unnatural.”
 
hilts said:
Cushty Rodney
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