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Blue Mist said:
He is fine spending other peoples money just not his own.
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Not according to the Sunday Times:

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Blue Mist said:
No I am helping people with acquired brain injury, is that as important ? How do we know ? When I last spoke to the taxman I had to carry on paying tax perhaps if I did what Saint Marcus did with his tax affairs........
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If you were successfully rallying people to pay for other people's brain surgeries then I wouldn't be arsed if you paid your share or not.

As usual, the bigger picture seems to be completely written off because people desperately want to find something to complain about.
 
Tugay One Cup said:
If you were successfully rallying people to pay for other people's brain surgeries then I wouldn't be arsed if you paid your share or not.

As usual, the bigger picture seems to be completely written off because people desperately want to find something to complain about.
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That totally misses the point. Thousands of people give time energy and money into helping charities. They do not have a successful PR team behind them to rally other people to pay for 'things' nor a 400k a week salary but they do not get to choose how much tax to avoid paying whilst demanding the government spend more.
I call it two faced and I would call anyone else who did it the same.
 
Blue Mist said:
That totally misses the point. Thousands of people give time energy and money into helping charities. They do not have a successful PR team behind them to rally other people to pay for 'things' nor a 400k a week salary but they do not get to choose how much tax to avoid paying whilst demanding the government spend more.
I call it two faced and I would call anyone else who did it the same.
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Again, I'm simply not arsed.

If some kids in need of help are getting to eat because of the work he's done then that's the important thing, as far as I'm concerned. I'll leave others to squabble about who paid what because it seemed like nobody was willing to foot the bill at all beforehand.
 
Blue Mist said:
That totally misses the point. Thousands of people give time energy and money into helping charities. They do not have a successful PR team behind them to rally other people to pay for 'things' nor a 400k a week salary but they do not get to choose how much tax to avoid paying whilst demanding the government spend more.
I call it two faced and I would call anyone else who did it the same.
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It’s legal though and all people who get a big wedge will have a very good accountant to look for these loop holes!
 


For what it's worth I think Rashford is a genuine bloke who's motivation was the kids. He just happens to benefit from having a very good PR team around him.
 
waspish said:
It’s legal though and all people who get a big wedge will have a very good accountant to look for these loop holes!
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Yes but they don't then bang a big drum and tell the government what to do with the money they have refused to contribute to.
 
Ric said:
He presumably pays around £100k a week in income tax? Surely that counts as contributing.
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But by utilising the many exemptions he does not pay his full amount, I doubt he pays a 100k a week for a start. Taking a tax free loan from his company is another instance. If he paid his dues he could stand as a people's champion railing against a selfish government who are leaving children starving (they are not but hey)
I see all and I mean all his actions as a PR exercise to promote him and make him more money.
 
Blue Mist said:
Bearing" in mind some of that is the tax he deliberately didn't pay the government I don't see the relevance. The point I am making and many others.
He is telling the government how to spend the money raised from taxes whilst deliberately paying as little as possible himself.
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Or his employers who are registered abroad!

How can you give away 125% of your wealth by the way?
 
kun said:
Explain to me how you can donate 125% of your wealth, of your own money.

That would suggest he literally gave away everything he had, and then took a loan out to the value of a quarter of what he was worth, and give that to Charity as well.
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It’s a ridiculous graphic from the Sunday Times.

Nothing yet from the Spectator. I wonder if Rashford’s PR firm have issued legal warnings on whatever they wanted to publish.
 
kun said:
Explain to me how you can donate 125% of your wealth, of your own money.

That would suggest he literally gave away everything he had, and then took a loan out to the value of a quarter of what he was worth, and give that to Charity as well.
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I did wonder that at first too. I presume though it means he has donated £20m to charity, and his current wealth is £16m?
 
Ric said:
I did wonder that at first too. I presume though it means he has donated £20m to charity, and his current wealth is £16m?
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If that was the case surely he would have given away around 55%.

I believe it counts fundraising. My guess is he raised £20M, compared to his £16M net worth.

I would be surprised if Rashford was ever worth £36M. That's around what Pep is worth.
 
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