Taking The Knee

[Ken4155]

Yet again...:-)

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/arise-sir-lewis-hamilton-formula-one-star-knighted-days-after-missing-out-on-record-eighth-title/ar-AARQc9H?ocid=msedgntp

[New Judge]

//Would you then make donations to charitable organisations//

I do make regular donations to a number of charities. They are those which I choose (for a variety of reasons) and those who I think will spend their receipts wisely. I can change those donations any time I wish and have done so, especially when I have come to believe my donations are being mis-spent. Unfortunately I have no choice over the amount of tax I pay or where it's spent and I can say with a great deal of certainty that much of the Exchequer's receipts is not spent wisely.

I see it as my duty to hold on to my money as far as possible precisely because I like to make these donations. If I paid more tax I'd have less to spend on those deserving causes.

[New Judge]

//Would love to know how many people would reside in the UK if they had the same amount of money as Sir Lewis//

I don't have quite the cash that Sir Lewis has but I have sufficient to up sticks and live abroad if I wished. Mrs NJ have considered it at various times in the past - and not just for the weather - but decided against it.

[Stickybottle]

Maybe in your dotage NJ when the old bones feel the temperature of UK winters a little more ?

[ynnafymmi]

Oh,well at least when the next posting about rich Tories and their tax-dodging affairs come up on AB,we can say well if Hamilton can be a tax dodger,then why complain when Rees-Mogg or Peter Green do the same thing?

[ynnafymmi]

Philip Green an a...

[New Judge]

//...we can say well if Hamilton can be a tax dodger,then why complain when Rees-Mogg or Peter Green do the same thing?//

But LH is not a tax dodger. He pays the tax required of him. He is no more a tax dodger than I am for sheltering my money in ISAs and SIPPs, or the charities I donate to are for claiming back the income tax I have paid on my donations.

[fcc]

Quite a few money-grubber's knocking about,surely you would live in the country you love,or supposedly love.

[New Judge]

//...surely you would live in the country you love,or supposedly love.//

For more than nine months of every year, F1 drivers spend their time travelling between venues all over the world to participate in more than twenty races, each of which takes four days. These are often held "back to back" meaning they finish a race on Sunday afternoon and have to begin preparation, at a new venue probably hundreds and possibly thousands of miles away, the following Thursday morning. They don't really "live" anywhere during that time.

Next season begins with testing on 23rd February in Barcelona. The first race is on March 20th (teams arrive on 17th) in Bahrain and ends 23 races and 37 weeks later in Abu Dhabi.

[Atheist]

NJ; I feel uncomfortable that comfortable individuals should choose where they spread their bounty. I think that I prefer that a democratic government which feels obliged to please a wider public should decide where the money should go. We can vote them out but we can't vote you out.

[Peter Pedant]

// Everybody and every business has an absolute duty to minimise their tax liabilities.//

a little tired m'lud? I think you might mean absolute right ( 'to arrange his affairs to minimise taxes' )

(if he had a duty then breach of it would be actionable: even I am not crazy enough to suggest that)

[THECORBYLOON]

I am sure that, in the absence of any successful tax-related prosecutions, YNNAFYMMI meant non-aggressive tax-avoidance.

[Peter Pedant]

Jan tax bill deadline coming uuuuuuupp ! ( Jan 2022 chizz chizz)

[Peter Pedant]

Indeed ay do as well
( think ynnifynni is referring to minimising taxes by tax avoidance)

after that disastrous VAT thread - a "tax car crash" to recycle a phrase or two

[New Judge]

//I think you might mean absolute right//

No I don’t Peter. I mean a duty. It is my duty to me and my family (so not “actionable”). Everybody has that duty. Nobody should give a government more than they must.

//NJ; I feel uncomfortable that comfortable individuals should choose where they spread their bounty.//

Bad luck. I decide where I spread my bounty and it is my job to ensure the government gets no more of it than I am absolutely obliged to give them. Your altruism with my cash would have more merit if it was not frittered away. I don’t think there is anybody in the land (bar perhaps a few politicians) who can deny that vast sums of taxpayers’ money are poured down the drain. I’m not talking about things they might not agree with. As you say, a democratically elected government has the right to decide how to spend its revenue. I’m talking about waste, where money is simply frittered away on duplication and inefficiency.