Jimmy Carr tax avoidance

[Arginald Valleywater]

Greedy bastard and not even funny.

[Lizard]

You forgot to mention, 'face like a welders bell end'.

[jimslip]

.......and also "Take That" have saved millions by investing their money in "Loss making music projects!" Note the 2 words, "loss making". Now, to anybody in the know in the hallowed halls of BGAFD, does this not have a familiar ring to it?!confused!

[planeterotica]

Apparently Carr makes around three million quid a year and pays 1% tax on it, mind you that probably ammounts to more tax than most people pay in a year, still makes him a greedy bastard..

[Sam Slater]

Cameron won't close the loopholes the rich use because that won't go down too well with his cronies in the Bullingdon Club. People like Cameron learn how to avoid tax at nursery.

A few working class lads from Manchester use it after hitting the big time and it's 'immoral'.

It'll not do if the riff-raff are doing it as well.

[David Johnson]

Yes and as far as I am aware just about every single one of the top FTSE 100 companies has "inventive" tax arrangements. Let's not mention the various corporate deals done by the HMRC with Vodafone and Goldman Sachs.

Makes Carr's grubby little deals look like small change in the gutter.

It's the rich wot gets the money and the poor wot gets the blame.

As always alas.

[Sam Slater]

Carr is a one of those fucking metrosexual types, though. That means he's worse.

[David Johnson]

Quite! Sneery, little fucker. I bet he's good at punctuation, too.

[Flat_Eric]

Take off the fucking blinkers David, it's not just the Tories. Labour are just as bad. They're all at it.

Have you forgotten the expenses scandal already and those Labour MPs who got sent down (sacrificial lambs, should have been more)? And the recent revelations about Ken Livingstone? Even the Millibands managed to "avoid" paying inheritance tax by judicious means.

I know it doesn't make it right and is no excuse, but at least to some extent you expect rich Tories to be self-serving greedy cunts with their snouts in the trough.

But aren't Labour supposed to be the "working man's party"? Were they not elected in 1997 largely due to the electotrate being pissed off with Tory sleaze? Didn't Tony Blair march triumphantly into Downing Street that year promising to (among other things) "clean up politics"?

Ironic really that they've turned out to be every bit of sleazy as the Tories, except that by claiming to be "the party of the working man", somehow the crass hypocricy of all that nest-feathering and the likes of Blair making millions on the after-dinner circuit while paying (relative, for him) peanuts in tax makes Labour sleaze seem far worse.



- Eric