Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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2,000 Senior Civil Servants have been found to be paid via private firms in order to avoid paying tax due to the Treasury.
Chief Secretary to the Treasury has advised Olly the government had no idea of the `scale`of the tax avoidance problem and
is calling for the practice to be stamped out in three months or the departments will see their budgets cut by five times the
revenue lost to the Treasury.
The practice has cost the nation millions in lost revenue.The Chairman of Commons Public Accounts Committee said `What
was seen as a one off rogue case appears to be commonplace to the whole of the Civil Service.
We need to be careful not to tar all with the same brush. There will be some who, like me, simply operate through their own ltd co because they prefer to pick and choose their projects and remain independent and freelance.
Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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Could be the Civil Servants will say the same,but its going to be stamped out in the public sector.
I am all for stamping out bad stuff, but not all that looks shady - especially to suspicious eyes - is in fact shady. I do rather resent your implication, as well. I have a ltd co because I value my independence, not to avoid tax. Actually, quite the reverse is true.
Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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Danny Alexander Chief Secretary of the Treasury is advising the Chancellor of the Evcheque the practice is unacceptable.
God forbid a politician would attempt a populist move.
Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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I do agree,after all he is a `closet blue`
Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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Courtesy Press in general.
Now the backlash over `fat cat pay`Shareholders are furious over lavish deals for City Bosses,
Barclays, Aviva and Trinity Mirror shareholders have reacted angrily at the multi-million pound bonuses and pay packets of
executives
Aviva described as `symtomatic of ``tsunami of revulsion``at fat cats pay.
Chairman of High Pay Commission said `The rebellion is spreading from the banks to all other businesses`
As Howard says the worms are turning but the companies can ignore them and carry on as usual.
Even if Shareholders are given the power to reject future pay increases it is still not a complete remedy.
But it is an appropriate one. And the mechanisms already exist that would support extending the shareholder role.
Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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Agree ...but would you agree the Shareholders control over such an important issue is tenuous?
Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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It ain`t healthy helping the `wealthy`and forgetting the `voters`at election times.
The Coalition will regret their cuts being too deep and too fast for the `voters`and keeping the `elite`in the luxury they are
accustomed to.
Even their backbenchers are in crown cuckoo land,all they are asking Cameron for is forget Gay Marriages and the Lords
reform.
Even if they do a complete `U` turn and revert to Plan `B`to help the `votersin their last two years the `Label`will stick.
Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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Reg - I really cannot believe that you really believe that rubbish.
'too deep too fast' - That is just not credible.
'too shallow too slow' more like.
'Keeping the elite in luxury' - simply the most inane comment I have ever read.
Come on - I know perfectly well you are not so dumb that you really believe that spin.
Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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Barry. If Cameron follows your advise he will be a one term Prime Minister but then again he will be anyway.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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listened to that nick robinson cove on the box yesterday and the phrase "one term government came up.
since 1979 we have got used to regimes surviving 3 elections but times are very different now and he was suggesting that most european countries will kick out their present leaders out of frustration with the austerity measures even though the replacements are unlikely to do much different.
And that attitude does not accommodate proper long term planning, which is what all the EU countries are starved of.
Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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Reg - if he takes my advice then the economy will have the room to grow without the massive burden of government spending holding it back. Growth and jobs will then win it for Cameron - it is the only thing that matters.
Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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Spot on Howard.Can hear Labour now``When we have cleaned up the mess of the last administration we will look at the
economic growth problem,as long as there is no snow and Royal Wedding.Osbornes name will used as often on this forum
as Brown`s has for two years.Barry you have developed an echo.
I thought I said the same in #995. I must have been mistaken.
Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
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well well this thread seems to have taken off again,
nice that no one is interestred in politics yet we are close to 1,000 posts one of the biggest threads.
now getting back to the heading, i think a lo of us would agree that camerons latest move to do away with the slogan WE ARE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER
it became obvious this has never been the case.
one term govt is correct cameron is not a leader and the right of the party will soon be rid of him once the election is lost
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Brian Dixon
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- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
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1000 posts kieth not bad for scallywags.
