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Tax avoidance after the state funeral
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That will easily cover cremation costs. It just means the relatives wont be able to spunk the death grant up the wall on fags and booze.“Bodies of dead left in mortuaries for months because families can't afford to bury them- Relatives on benefits leaving loved ones in hospital mortuary refrigerators
- Average funeral costs £2,000, but social welfare cash cap is just £700”
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“Bodies of dead left in mortuaries for months because families can't afford to bury them
- Relatives on benefits leaving loved ones in hospital mortuary refrigerators
- Average funeral costs £2,000, but social welfare cash cap is just £700”
That will easily cover cremation costs. It just means the relatives wont be able to spunk the death grant up the wall on fags and booze.
As my old man used to say
"they haven't left one on top"."If you act like an illiterate man, your learning will never stop... Being uneducated, you have no fear of the future.".....
"big business is parasitic, like a mosquito, whereas I prefer the lighter touch, like that of a butterfly. "A butterfly can suck honey from the flower without damaging it," "Arunachalam Muruganantham0 -
if the average funeral costs 2000 and, noting maggies is 10million, one quickly deduces that most funerals must be quite cheap.0
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We as a nation are funding a State Funeral in all but name for Thatcher. Yet it appears that she has avoided paying taxes in the country she is allegedly so revered in.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/margaret-thatcher-tax-snatcher-mystery-1828441
Nothing at all illegal I am sure, but this sort of tax avoidance is really taking the p*** out of ordinary working people.
Nothing new, either. This article is from 2002.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2002/may/25/tax.politicsThe wealthy individuals who appear to be enjoying the country's choicest property virtually tax-free, thanks to their exploitation of legal loopholes include a number of Labour party donors, as well as the former Tory prime minister Margaret Thatcher, an influential Saudi prince and Mohamed Al Fayed, the controversial owner of Harrods and Fulham football club.0 -
There are laws around tax havens. If you are tax resident in the UK and put your money in a savings account in a country which doesn't tax interest on savings then you still have to declare the interest as a part of your income in the UK.
What do you think George Osborne meant by this?I regard tax evasion and, indeed, aggressive tax avoidance, as morally repugnantFew people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are incapable of forming such opinions.0 -
Itismehonest wrote: »Nothing new, either. This article is from 2002.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2002/may/25/tax.politics
Of course there is nothing new, the question still arises of when tax avoidance becomes sufficiently aggressive to become illegal? Unfortunately no Government is willing to address the problem.Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are incapable of forming such opinions.0 -
grizzly1911 wrote: »Privatisation merely sold the family silver. Didn't save anything apart from our bacon for a few years.
It was paid for by previous generations and we will all pay all over again several times over to maintain services.
For someone with such strong convictions coming from a Methodist background I am surprised she went in for wholesale avoidance, on such a grand scale, if what is written in the press is correct.
"The press" being the daily mirror by any chance?If you will the end, you must will the means.0 -
"The press" being the daily mirror by any chance?
Can't remember hence the caveat.
There is usually no smoke without some fire."If you act like an illiterate man, your learning will never stop... Being uneducated, you have no fear of the future.".....
"big business is parasitic, like a mosquito, whereas I prefer the lighter touch, like that of a butterfly. "A butterfly can suck honey from the flower without damaging it," "Arunachalam Muruganantham0 -
Thrugelmir wrote: »The bust is far from over...........
Another chapter in Labours poor record of managing the economy since WW2.
1951 - 1997
46 years.
Labour in for 11 years.
Same old Tories same old lies.US housing: it's not a bubble - Moneyweek Dec 12, 20050
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