Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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GaryC - no-one is suggesting that, i only support the right of people to protect their property from wasteful greedy irresponsible spending government.
I have also said how the situation can be remedied. Simple, low and flat taxes that are not easy to avoid, competitive and are also at a level where complex (and expensive) artificial schemes are no longer viable.
Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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# 3021.......Agree on flat tax system but finance johnnies will always find ``artificial schemes ``.....if not their out
of a job.........
Guest 671- Registered: 4 May 2008
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BarryW.
Again. I totally agree with your last sentence and the sooner that is implemented the better.
But while many 100's of 1000's of workers, are paying their tax on a weekly basis and keeping this country turning over, there are parasites paying nothing, bringing this country to its knees and cannot see that that is immoral.
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Keith Sansum1
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Correct garyc
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Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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Finance Johnnies get up to more than `cooking books`
Courtesy Independent.....
Hacking scandal: Police knew of illegal record checks for financiers but took no action
Soca had proof after seizing hard drives from corrupt private investigators
The Serious Organised Crime Agency knew that an international currency broker
commissioned corrupt private detectives to obtain highly sensitive international criminal
records checks on business associates - but took no action against the firm of brokers.
Investigators from Soca seized computer hard drives from criminal private investigators that
showed the blue-chip company paid them £14,000 to gather a wealth of private information
on two family members with whom it was in dispute, including CRB checks and an Interpol trace.
Emails recovered by security officials also showed the private detectives obtained confidential
bank accounts, credit card statements, passport numbers and mobile phone PINs on behalf of the broker
Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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At last some control on this unacceptable face of business ................
Courtesy Independent...............
Payday lending advertising faces ban under hard-hitting new rules
Payday lending advertising could be banned under hard-hitting new rules being considered
by the City Watchdog.
This morning leading payday firms including Wonga, Dollar Financial and The Cash Shop,
were summoned to Westminster to explain to Ministers why the high-cost credit industry is
failing to meet minimum regulatory requirements.
At the summit - which also included debt charities and consumer organisations - Ministers were
told of far-reaching proposals that could ban daytime adverts on television that target the
unwaged and vulnerable people.
Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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Courtesy Independent......
BBC Trust says £25m pay-offs for Corporation staff are a 'fundamental failure'
The BBC Trust said the NAO conclusions were 'deeply worrying'
The BBC has been accused by its own governing body of a "fundamental failure of central
oversight and control" after the National Audit Office revealed that the organisation had paid
its departing managers £60m in severance packages since 2005.
The BBC Trust said it was "deeply concerned" after the NAO uncovered huge payments to
managers who the BBC knew had already lined up new jobs. In around a quarter of cases
examined the BBC had paid the departing executives more money than they were
contractually entitled to. Auditors were mystified as to why some had been given car and
private health allowances and ex gratia payments.
In an extraordinary rebuke, Anthony Fry, chair of the BBC Trust's Finance Committee
, said the generosity of the payments would "quite rightly, be met with considerable dismay
by licence fee payers and by BBC staff." In a statement, he said: "There can be no repeat
of such a fundamental failure of central oversight and control."
Guest 745- Registered: 27 Mar 2012
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The rise of these shops comes from low wages
Labour never helps this by opening the flood gats to cheap EU workers
Labour shat all over the British working class
Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
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You are right, Keith B.
And fact is, that payday loans are on the rise, as too are food banks, together with spending cuts, bankers' bonuses and top salaries.
Brian Dixon
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that's the spirit lads keep it up.
Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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'I'm hanging on to my £680,000 pay-off', says former BBC executive
A former BBC executive whose £680,000 pay-off was highlighted in a scathing official report
has insisted she will not return any money, and claimed that the broadcaster prevented her
from working her notice period.
Caroline Thomson, who was the chief operating officer, insisted that her compensation was
"completely legitimate" and was justified because she still did not have a full-time job.
A Conservative MP today called on former BBC executives who received big pay-offs to
consider following the example of Roly Keating, who sent back his £375,000. Rob Wilson,
the MP for Reading East, said that he was considering asking police to investigate after
one in four former BBC executives received more than they were entitled to. The National
Audit Office, which wrote the report, calculated that £1 million too much had been spent on pay-offs.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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No wonder the license fee is so high
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Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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come of it kieth,it works out at 12 quid a month.a drop in the ocean for 99.9% of the population.
Jan Higgins
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I agree with both of the previous posts, but I do not expect my license money to be wasted on giant unnecessary payoffs, I would prefer it went towards making decent programmes.
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Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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Jan
I think, better programmes and this money should not be used in this way to bolster these pay offs
Garyc asked a question some time back
Whilst Barryw is clear tax where you don't need to pay, or can find a loop hole, must run into billions(far higher than the benefits fraudsters, barryw no doubt has a rough estimate on the figure for getting round paying tax ?
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Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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Benefit fraud approx £ 20 million.........not billion........tax avoidance approx £ 35 billion........not million......
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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I didn't realise it was that wide, I can see why now barryw didn't wish to respond
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Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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Not so ......all finance johnnies would boast they help achieve such a high figure......after all it`s legal.....!!!!
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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Even the mouse and Osbourne think it is wrong
not the best judges on most things, but right on this one
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Guest 714- Registered: 14 Apr 2011
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Anybody would think this is new, its been going on for years but you lot never said a word when Brown was chancellor.
