Yet more Tory sleaze….

[albion]

Bitcoinn type stuff again.
https://www.theguardian.com/politic...ng-his-war-chest-but-he-isnt-building-bridges
I khew hedge funds vultured over Brexit. Seems now Brexit waw also about supporting the cryptocoin pyramid schemes.

 

[newfhouse]

Normal people would have been prosecuted or sanctioned for less than this. Somehow Zahawi is allowed to quietly pay his arrears.

Odd that this investigation by Dan Neidle has been picked up by The Sun of all papers. I wonder what Zahawi has done to upset Murdoch. I won't link to that paper but here's a later take from The Independent.

Neidle's blog is well worth a read. Zahawi's lawyers have done their best to intimidate home and failed.

https://www.taxpolicy.org.uk/2023/01/15/zahawi_pay_up/

 

[BoldonLad]

Normal people would have been prosecuted or sanctioned for less than this. Somehow Zahawi is allowed to quietly pay his arrears.

Odd that this investigation by Dan Neidle has been picked up by The Sun of all papers. I wonder what Zahawi has done to upset Murdoch. I won't link to that paper but here's a later take from The Independent.

Neidle's blog is well worth a read. Zahawi's lawyers have done their best to intimidate home and failed.

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https://www.taxpolicy.org.uk/2023/01/15/zahawi_pay_up/

The story is on Mail Online too. I will not provide a link for obvious reasons. I came across it when searching for news about death of woman attacked by several dogs.in Caterham.

 

[Deleted member 49]

Well said

View: https://twitter.com/NEON_UK/status/1616081066678272001?t=BTqH0vUNT5UNIav688brDw&s=19

 

[newfhouse]

When I ran my own businesses and wasn’t on PAYE I never had to pay 30% penalties to HMRC. If I had it would have been because they caught me fiddling, or at least failing to comply with the rules.


View: https://twitter.com/danneidle/status/1616419508813438976?s=61&t=fvwMYFoxatS_eGr5WZdMwA

 

[winjim]

When I ran my own businesses and wasn’t on PAYE I never had to pay 30% penalties to HMRC. If I had it would have been because they caught me fiddling, or at least failing to comply with the rules.


View: https://twitter.com/danneidle/status/1616419508813438976?s=61&t=fvwMYFoxatS_eGr5WZdMwA

They say he's also 'never had to instruct lawyers' in relation to his dealings with HMRC. I mean, neither have I...

 

[Beebo]

When I ran my own businesses and wasn’t on PAYE I never had to pay 30% penalties to HMRC. If I had it would have been because they caught me fiddling, or at least failing to comply with the rules.


View: https://twitter.com/danneidle/status/1616419508813438976?s=61&t=fvwMYFoxatS_eGr5WZdMwA

And he was chancellor at the time of the investigation

 

[winjim]

And he was chancellor at the time of the investigation

Must have been a speedy investigation.

 

[qigong chimp]

Careless, not deliberate.
I dare say it evens out, that as many tories carelessly overpay tax, carelessly undercharge for VIP lane PPE, carelessly over-declare interests, carelessly decline payment and voluntarily lobby for commercial concerns.
Swings and roundabouts, most likely.

 

[Beebo]

We’ve all be caught carelessly paying too much tax from our off shore trusts.

We need to see the advice his accountant gave him.

 

[multitool]

Weird that he threatened to sue people uncovering his tax avoidance if the tax avoidance was all just a simple oversight.

 

[Bazzer]

On the assumption the events took place after the introduction of FA 2007, he may describe it as "careless", but HMRC may describe it differently.
Unfortunately, if the reference to 30% is correct, that does not identify how HMRC treated the offence. A careless offence would carry a maximum penalty of 30%, but to hit the maximum, that would mean Zahawi had not been (speaking generally) particularly cooperative with HMRC.
Or the penalty of 30% could have been charged for the more serious offences of deliberate, or deliberate and concealed, but he would qualify for a lower penalty if he contacted HMRC about the liabilities, rather than the other way round, and he (speaking generally) had been particularly cooperative with HMRC.

 

[multitool]

Frankly, this is far worse than Zahawi's greedy tax fiddling:


View: https://twitter.com/Gabriel_Pogrund/status/1616859756387237888?s=20&t=eWHzBw1cnoeVjROR3sxwjw

 

[newfhouse]

Business as usual for the filthy corrupt bastards.

View: https://twitter.com/gabriel_pogrund/status/1616859756387237888?s=61&t=x2jBydulaT-nQAjGl-brFQ


Edit: pipped to the post.

 

[multitool]

Weird how both of them have got eyes like pissholes in snow