Tax avoidance after the state funeral

grizzly1911

zagubov wrote: »

I grew up confused about the Korean and Vietnamese wars but there was a long-running TV series (with, I have to say, some of the best scripts ever written) called MASH which deliberately and satirically blurred the two together.

Excellent series. In the second series they had an episode called
5 O'Clock Charlie . Each evening a N Korean pilot would head over their camp and try and drop a single bomb by hand. The medics had a daily sweep stake to establish just where the bomb would land as it was always off target.

I wonder how this would pan out in a modern version with potentially (unreliable according to US specialists) nuclear tipped BMs

Radar and the Colonel were superb not just the two main characters.

Generali

grizzly1911 wrote: »

Excellent series. In the second series they had an episode called
5 O'Clock Charlie . Each evening a N Korean pilot woul dhead over their camp and ttry and drop a single bomb by hand. the medics had a daily sweep stake to establish just where the bomb would land as it was always off target.

I wonder how this would pan out in a modern version with potentially (unreliable according to US specialists) nuclear tipped BMs

Radar and the Colonel were superb not just the two main characters.

MASH was excellent.

A mate's dad fought in the Malay Emergency in the RAF.

He reckoned that a coke bottle chucked out of a plane made the same sound on the way down as a 1,000lb bomb. If you flew around the insurgent controlled areas chucking out coke bottles you could do a great job of sleep deprivation as long as you occasionally lobbed out a bomb to show people you were serious!

Whatever the truth of it, this was a successful jungle war fought by the Brits, albeit on a tiny fraction of the scale of Vietnam.

Kennyboy66

Generali wrote: »

MASH was excellent.

A mate's dad fought in the Malay Emergency in the RAF.

He reckoned that a coke bottle chucked out of a plane made the same sound on the way down as a 1,000lb bomb. If you flew around the insurgent controlled areas chucking out coke bottles you could do a great job of sleep deprivation as long as you occasionally lobbed out a bomb to show people you were serious!

Whatever the truth of it, this was a successful jungle war fought by the Brits, albeit on a tiny fraction of the scale of Vietnam.

Fill the coke bottle with Napalm and you can harmonise;

"I'd like to teach the world to singe"

Generali

Kennyboy66 wrote: »

Fill the coke bottle with Napalm and you can harmonise;

"I'd like to teach the world to singe"

I'd like to buy, the world a home,
With Commies not allowed.
Drop Napalm Bombs, with happy songs,
Munitions're sounding loud.

JasonLVC

The Daily Mirror article makes a big issue of the lease being "unusual" and then refers to the lease excluding the airspace above the property. So what?

"Possession" is a property right through which one can exercise control over something to the exclusion of others. The owner has the right to exclusive possession of land, which includes the airspace above and the space below the surface within the exterior boundaries of the property."

"An owner is not entitled to possess all space above their land outward to infinity but has the right to be free from those intrusions into the space that would interfere with the reasonable occupation and enjoyment of the surface."

So, if I read that right, all this mysterious arrangement is saying is that the tenant cannot complain if the property is under Heathrow's flight path.

JasonLVC

http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/budget2013/tiin-1182.pdf

Osbourne introduced new tax rules and tax bandings for residential properties held by corporate entities off-shore.

So one would presume that the property in question would be caught by this new tax. Granted, its not the same as paying IHT or other such taxes, but it is a tax nonetheless.

Does The Mirror mention anything about this new tax or the other crackdowns on tax avoidance enacted by the government over the last 24 months such as sharing banking information with the CI, Switzerland (and getting lump sum payments on deposits) and soon the BVI/Cayman Islands too.