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blueparrot
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Because thats the rule, unless you use a loophole and pay to opt out of that rule to save money. It may be legal, but for the wife of the chancelor it certainly isn’t moral.Maybe so, maybe not. Here she is earning money in India, it remains in India, and paying taxes in India. You think she should pay UK and not Indian tax? Why exactly.
lust overlord
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energy expert on the radio just now pointed out this is the 6th Govt paper in 3 years on energy strategy and each one is more incoherent than the last
It's like groundhog day with this government.
Put right past mistakes blah blah,cheaper energy in future blah blah.
The usual load of platitudes and promises,with the implication that were all in the same boat.....patently we are not.
Meanwhile French state owned EDF energy in France have just imposed a 4% increase in prices for their customers.
Alan Harper's Tash
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You used to have to be morally good in office. Once upon a time, well, up until this government actually, ministers would have resigned over much less.Because thats the rule, unless you use a loophole and pay to opt out of that rule to save money. It may be legal, but for the wife of the chancelor it certainly isn’t moral.
This government don’t care and seemedly their followers don’t either.
That’s not the issue! The issue is sheltering wealth in havens like the BVIs, to massively reduce tax to India, the U.K. etcMaybe so, maybe not. Here she is earning money in India, it remains in India, and paying taxes in India. You think she should pay UK and not Indian tax? Why exactly.
No wonder nothing will ever change when they have people ready and willing to fight for a billionaire who is taking the piss.
Politics has changed. It seems it doesn't matter what they say or do they will always have an army of drones defending them and lining up to vote against their own interests. Trump said and did what he wanted and nothing happened and it's exactly the same with the Tories. Lockdown parties, dodgy Covid contracts to rich mates, Chancellors billionaire wife taking the piss. It keeps coming and nothing happens.
Politics has changed. It seems it doesn't matter what they say or do they will always have an army of drones defending them and lining up to vote against their own interests. Trump said and did what he wanted and nothing happened and it's exactly the same with the Tories. Lockdown parties, dodgy Covid contracts to rich mates, Chancellors billionaire wife taking the piss. It keeps coming and nothing happens.
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Bodicoteblue
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They carry on untroubled by the morality or otherwise of their financial jiggery- pokery while not losing any sleep about seeing kids go to school without a breakfast, a school that has decrepit, out-of-date tablets and computers, leaking roofs and staff shortages, then walking home because of hopeless public transport to a home that is not heated because of government policies and incompetence.No wonder nothing will ever change when they have people ready and willing to fight for a billionaire who is taking the piss.
Politics has changed. It seems it doesn't matter what they say or do they will always have an army of drones defending them and lining up to vote against their own interests. Trump said and did what he wanted and nothing happened and it's exactly the same with the Tories. Lockdown parties, dodgy Covid contracts to rich mates, Chancellors billionaire wife taking the piss. It keeps coming and nothing happens.
I mean, what’s a few billions anyway?
metalblue
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Yes - she pays tax on her U.K. earnings, I agree that isn’t the issue discussed. Part of the point I was making is that she does not have to sever ties to India by not being a non-dom, which is what you were suggesting she would have to do. Domicile is nothing to do with nationality.
One of the reasons this story has legs is because it’s highly likely she is using tax havens to shelter her ‘international’ income. (The story would be killed dead if she declared the income to India). Not illegal, but lacking in scruples given she is the wife of the chancellor who enjoys the financial benefits she brings to the family.
Well it’s speculation that she’s not paying taxes in India - I’m sure if that was the case Labour and the Guardian would have been all over it.
To give up non dom status she would have to become a tax resident of the UK. As a consequence she would lose her status as resident of India. She would then be on a timer to acquire UK citizenship. As a consequence of that she may well lose rights to retain assets and inherit certain assets of her fathers. So it’s far more complicated than we can really begin to appreciate - and due to the wealth involved even more so.
For me so long as she is paying tax in the country it’s earned then that’s enough scruples but we all have different bars.
metalblue
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Maybe so - your lack of understanding the basics means I am out
Lol. Can’t debate, leaves room.
Keep posting your articles fella xx
As opposed to all of them people who choose to pay their tax at the highest possible rate!!Do you think non-dom status is an entitlement? You have to apply - its a conscious effort to gain the status. You do that if you want to "manage" your tax affairs so you only pay what you have to at the lowest rate possible.
Do you tell Asda the price is too low for your groceries and pay them a bit extra?