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[Trojan]

It might help if you were to roundly condemn the sale by the last government of all of HM Revenue and Customs properties to a tax haven company.

see here

The committee's key complaints are that Mapeley is an offshore company that pays no UK taxes yet when the STEPS deal was announced it was described as a UK company.

and here

The handling of the property deal, which saw 600 Revenue buildings sold for £220 million in 2001, has been shrouded in controversy from the moment it emerged that the Inland Revenue's new landlord, Mapeley Steps, was based offshore whilst the agency continued to take a strong stance on aggressive tax planning by other organisations.

Oh and by the way, Guardian Media Group (GMG), the Guardian's parent company, is one half of a joint venture that is incorporated in the Cayman Islands.

also, see here

Income £500,000,000

Tax, £800k

what a crock of ######!!!

Mr Cameron and Mr Osbourne are millionaires (probably most of the rest of the cabinet too) born with silver (golden?) spoons in their mouths and they have the audacity to cut benefits for the worst off in society and then say "we are all in this together" now that's what I call hypocrisy. I don't care about the Guardian or any other newspaper's tax affairs, the paper I buy on Sundays once belonged to Tiny Rowland for gods sake. If these people are not paying their fair whack then this "we're all in this together" governement should do something about it. The less they pay the more we have to either pay or have our services cut. I'm not holding my breath.

Edited by Trojan, 05 December 2010 - 07:31 PM.

[bowes]

Anyone above the benefit cap of £500 per WEEK is clearly not among the worst off in society.

[Bedford Roughyed]

Maybe Ed should look at inheritance tax and the loopholes there...I mean him and his brother David have first hand experience on it...

[sam]

Mr Cameron and Mr Osbourne are millionaires (probably most of the rest of the cabinet too) born with silver (golden?) spoons in their mouths and they have the audacity to cut benefits for the worst off in society and then say "we are all in this together" now that's what I call hypocrisy. I don't care about the Guardian or any other newspaper's tax affairs, the paper I buy on Sundays once belonged to Tiny Rowland for gods sake. If these people are not paying their fair whack then this "we're all in this together" governement should do something about it. The less they pay the more we have to either pay or have our services cut. I'm not holding my breath.

and it keeps getting clearer.

you're ok with your own tax avoidance and you don't care about certain businesses with multi-million pound turnovers tax avoidance but you do others. why is that?

what i'd call hypocrisy is bleating on about the 'worst off in society' getting screwed by one political party, then being 'proud' to offer the ultimate endorsement to another political party who deliberately and vindictively screwed the poorest in society.

Edited by sam, 05 December 2010 - 09:07 PM.

[JohnM]

Mr Cameron and Mr Osbourne are millionaires (probably most of the rest of the cabinet too) born with silver (golden?) spoons in their mouths and they have the audacity to cut benefits for the worst off in society and then say "we are all in this together" now that's what I call hypocrisy. I don't care about the Guardian or any other newspaper's tax affairs, the paper I buy on Sundays once belonged to Tiny Rowland for gods sake. If these people are not paying their fair whack then this "we're all in this together" governement should do something about it. The less they pay the more we have to either pay or have our services cut. I'm not holding my breath.

back to the question. Do you agree that the last government should have sold OUR property to a tax haven company?

a simple yes or no will suffice.

[l'angelo mysterioso]

back to the question. Do you agree that the last government should have sold OUR property to a tax haven company?

a simple yes or no will suffice.

John you seem to feel that people who object to what this government is doing are by definition supporters of the last govenment.
It's far from the truth

[JohnM]

I don't think that, really. And I know Trojan wasn't a lover of New Labour.. However, I think its reasonable ( yes, me!) to expect a degree of consistency...and leadership. When a govt that condemns tax evasion ( quite rightly) and tax avoidance then indulges in it itself, what sense of direction does that give?

anyway, as you can see, the coalition really are soft on tax dodgers

Edited by JohnM, 06 December 2010 - 02:40 PM.

[Haloman]

It's been a favourite bugbear of Mark Thomas for quite some time and rightly so.