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Disappointed this isn't included
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A fun fact I discovered in life is there’s a radio station in uralsk Kazakhstan that only plays Boney M
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When we do the shopping in Carrefour over in Alicante they play their version of Daddy Cool over the tannoy every 20 minutes, it always puts a smile on my face.
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Sorry to hark back to before the wank party - what did you mean by this? Through Seedrs Microcosm investors could qualify for I think EIS and SEIS. Those are schemes / tax reliefs run by the government to encourage investment, not tax avoidance. If the government offers a relief/reduces tax in some way, you’re not avoiding it.
Or did I miss out on something more exciting….?
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Those are schemes / tax reliefs run by the government to encourage investment, not tax avoidance
Structuring your investment to use the scheme avoids tax. What Zahawi did was tax evasion, ie the tax is due but you just don’t declare or pay.
The grey area is things like film partnerships / Channel Islands / Lux / double Dutch where it’s technically legal but relies on aggressive interpretations of the law to achieve something policymakers didn’t intend.
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I worked for a media investments firm for a few months back in 2010, name the footballer and they were in it. Stories of firm directors taking helicopters up to Carrington in the hours up to end of tax year to get wet-ink signatures from Man Utd players, the directors would take up spare application forms as they would get 2 or 3 curious teammates who'd get FOMO and sign up there and then; we're talking high 6 to 7 figure sums. These were Enterprise Investment Schemes and Venture Capital Trusts with all sorts of juicy income tax and capital gains relief. Investments in films, festivals, wine, all kinds of shit. And they would do it every year, capital had to be locked up for 3-5 years and as the schemes and trusts matured they'd get their cheques from HMRC and then return of principal investment.
The way these things were structured meant that investors through these schemes would be the first to get paid back so relatively little risk even if the film/event was a dud. In the run up to end of tax year you'd get all sorts of celebs walking into the office in Soho to sign up for these things.
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Snap. I worked in a similar industry. 2010 was definitely the high water mark (is that the correct metaphor?). I think a major flaw however, was when success stories still came out as a loss - see Twilight.
@t.o. my point was in relation to Nick's reply to someone else's comment on Sunak's wife's non-dom status.
Generally people seem to have a problem with tax avoidance they don't like/benefit from, but are cool with ones they do like/benefit from.
I disagree that the schemes you list aren't tax avoidance - imo they are in a subset: government backed tax avoidance.... just like non-dom status.
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[BP] which was one of the first oil and gas giants to announce an ambition to cut emissions to net zero by 2050 - had previously promised that emissions would be 35-40% lower by the end of this decade.
However, on Tuesday it said it was now targeting a 20-30% cut, saying it needed to keep investing in oil and gas to meet current demands. -
Fuck me. This is bleak.
I was really hoping it wasn't the obvious thing...
But yes, it's the obvious thing again
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I was really hoping it wasn't the obvious thing...
But yes, it's the obvious thing again
Unbelieveably upsetting. That poor kid and that poor woman. Beggars belief.
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Somebody in a severe mental health crisis.
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Not sure I agree. It happens too often and it's almost always men doing it to women and children. So while there may be a mental health element, something in society is creating/enabling men prepared to do this when the crisis hits in a way that isn't happening to women.
Personally I think there's a sick sense of ownership in these men that makes them think they have the right to take "their" families lives.
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That’s a get out in 97%* of these cases. It’s toxic cunts and labelling them any different hurts people who truly need help.
*made up figure.
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Familicide is not always preceded by violence, however. A desire for and sense of entitlement to control - especially over finances and the family “unit” - is a more common denominator. Familicide often occurs in the face of a spiralling loss of control over these areas, especially by a male “head of the household”.
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Too often, when fathers kill their children, the tendency is to frame it as a case of mental illness rather than gender-driven violence.
And lots more stuff expanding on what you said.
https://theconversation.com/why-do-men-kill-their-families-heres-what-the-research-says-132314
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She spoke in a podcast with students recently about how things were going and while she was positive, she did mention her husband changed jobs, which wasn't planned. Absolute speculation on my part but I can't help but think this change, combined with the recent posts here, were the contributing factors.
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