The problem with the Paradise Papers that the BBC and Guardian are flogging to death

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Originally Posted by Luis Anaconda

It's just **** this, fanny dancing that, bull**** the other with you these days, p. When did you turn into a slightly less charming version of RCEG

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It's probably the increasingly sanitised nature of real life that leads me to swear like a docker on here.

In real life I am still an absolute delight :p

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Originally Posted by Burney

is that nobody appears to give a fvck about it.

The only vaguely interesting revelation is that that sanctimonious cvnt Bono is an absolutely massive fvcking hypocrite. And we all knew that already. :shrug:

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I doubt they even know how they're paying less tax. Some accountant just gets them to sign the odd piece of paper and does everything for them.

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Originally Posted by PSRB

I doubt they even know how they're paying less tax. Some accountant just gets them to sign the odd piece of paper and does everything for them.

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Right. It's just business.

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Originally Posted by Peter

It's probably the increasingly sanitised nature of real life that leads me to swear like a docker on here.

In real life I am still an absolute delight :p

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Good to know, p :thumbup:

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Originally Posted by PSRB

I doubt they even know how they're paying less tax. Some accountant just gets them to sign the odd piece of paper and does everything for them.

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Some inside information there, prsb ;)

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Originally Posted by Burney

is that nobody appears to give a fvck about it.

The only vaguely interesting revelation is that that sanctimonious cvnt Bono is an absolutely massive fvcking hypocrite. And we all knew that already. :shrug:

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It's the politics of envy, b. All those socialists at the Guardian and the BBC, busy peering over the fence to see what their neighbours are doing.

Wánkers to a man.

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Originally Posted by Luis Anaconda

Good to know, p :thumbup:

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Only until we give the ball away in midfield for the fifth time in a row playing a risky sideways pass on the edge of the opposition box with 8 players ahead of the ****ing ball and the defence ten yards inside the ****ing opposition half :mad::mad:

Tax avoidance v Tax evasion.

One of them is okay, one is illegal. Cool with me.

I would avoid / evade if I knew how. Wd Mrs Brown and Paul Hewson.


p.s. nothing to do with their Irishness

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Originally Posted by SWv2

Tax avoidance v Tax evasion.

One of them is okay, one is illegal. Cool with me.

I would avoid / evade if I knew how. Wd Mrs Brown and Paul Hewson.


p.s. nothing to do with their Irishness

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The point is you have to pay to avoid - obviously not as much but a fair amount. I went on a freebie to the Euro 2004 final thanks to BENQ who were one of the sponsors. Got chatting to a lad who was basically an accountant specialising in tax avoidance and had several high profile clients (including the company who was paying **** loads for the five-star hotel and free star and alcohol). He was wonderfully indiscreet about who he worked for and how he worked - quite eye-opening on the whole subject and basically said that there was really nothing governments could do about it and as as long as rich people had money to hire cleverer people than governments did there would always be loopholes to exploit

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Originally Posted by Sir C

It's the politics of envy, b. All those socialists at the Guardian and the BBC, busy peering over the fence to see what their neighbours are doing.

Wánkers to a man.

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Who you callin' a wánker, wánker