Nadhim Zahawi?

[gant]

Hunt became chancellor.

 

[securespark]

Don't refugees that are involved in criminal behaviour get deported?

 

[blup]

This is a great opportunity to carry out a further inquiry into the exact details of NZ tax affaits, and to use it as a springboard to improve tax policy. HMRC behaviour should be included in the investigation. How did they resolve conflicts of interest with their boss being the person investigated, did they get external advice.

Blup

 

[gant]

Your banking on this being on everyone's lips before Charlie having his do, good look with that.
Once the tax returns are in and the taxman has said business as usual to the plebs it'll get dropped like a stone.
Hence the timing to get Nadim off the books.

 

[transam]

All a load of baloney imo
Bloke was investigated

Investigation concluded his actions / behaviour was not up to
Snuff

Sunac gets told results and gives the bloke the bullet

Simples

 

[Justin Passing]

Too little, too late, surely

Yep. Why is the lying little ѕhit still an MP?

 

[Brigadier]

This is a great opportunity to carry out a further inquiry into the exact details of NZ tax affaits, and to use it as a springboard to improve tax policy

I'm not sure you can improve tax policy (not in anything other than the short term, anyway).
Change it, yes. Whether it improves is subjective, and also depends on the specific economic circumstances of the time.

 

[blup]

I'm not sure you can improve tax policy (not in anything other than the short term, anyway).
Change it, yes. Whether it improves is subjective, and also depends on the specific economic circumstances of the time.

Its very simple, every taxpayer is required to disclose any interest in an offshore trust or the like including any gifts or loans received. Taxpayer includes friends families advisers etc, uk domiciled or not. Failure to do so is serious criminal offence punishable by imprisonment. Intention or carelessness would be irrelevant. Local authorities prosecute so called benefit cheats all the time, they don't have a defence of carelessness.

Blup

 

[ajohn]

His Mom and Dad appear to be involved in his rise in wealth from nothing.

Nadhim Zahawi played secret role in offshore-linked lender

Scandal-hit Conservative chair did not declare his interests in Crowd2Fund, a company co-founded by his parents

www.opendemocracy.net

Also his wiki page.

 

[Brigadier]

Its very simple, every taxpayer is required to disclose any interest in an offshore trust or the like including any gifts or loans received. Taxpayer includes friends families advisers etc, uk domiciled or not. Failure to do so is serious criminal offence punishable by imprisonment. Intention or carelessness would be irrelevant. Local authorities prosecute so called benefit cheats all the time, they don't have a defence of carelessness.

Blup

I'll come onto the wider point later but, I disagree that "it's very simple" in that:

- you can't define your scope ("offshore trusts and the like")
- you can't define the person(s) concerned (""friends, families, advisers, etc")

In effect, you've just diffidently waved your hand, saying, "that stuff, and those lot".


Back to the wider point, you've missed it.
The offshore trust is not the problem; deliberate deceit is the problem.
The offshore trust was just the vehicle.

Do you think, in your "solution" above, he'd have done any differently?

Deceitful people will find a way to be deceitful, whether that's adopting a labyrinthine financial structure in which to hide impropriety, or exchanging pillowcases stuffed with cash in quiet laybys.

It's what they do.

 

[diy_fun_uk]

Deceitful people will find a way to be deceitful, whether that's adopting a labyrinthine financial structure in which to hide impropriety, or exchanging pillowcases stuffed with cash in quiet laybys.

It's what they do.

I mentioned the swamp earlier and how the 'unlucky' ones gets caught. gant mentioned I was stating the obvious, to an extent true. However this assertion from Brigadier sums things up. On the political front, it's funny to think when watching the Houses of Parliament that many will sit and nod along with faux sincere expressions when the Zahawi thing is being discussed (or whatever wrongdoing is at the forefront.) However of those, more than a few will be hiding their own deceitfulness.

 

[carmanmemoranda]

It's about time tax rules were simplified.

The complications are where the loopholes thrive

 

[motorbiking]

As as matter of principle I wont hire an accountant to do my self assessment. Its one of the few things in life where you are responsible for understanding the rules and paying the correct amount under threat of prosecution if you make a mistake. I don't see why I should pay money, to calculate my bill.

 

[Notch7]

Boris Johnson scrapped any morals or honour in parliament.

back in the old days ministers resigned if they were found wanting, not anymore.

 

[motorbiking]

Not as bad as these lot tho..
David Chayter - jailed for Fraud,
Eric Illsley jailed for False accounting
Denis MacShane - jailed for false accounting
Fiona Onasanya perverting the course of justice
Jim Devine jailed for Fraud,
Elliot Morley jailed for Fraud
and Claudia Webbe suspended sentence for harassment.

Hardly fixed penalties for covid or seatbelt infringements.