MPs expenses - who cares anyway?

[VikingHumpingWitch]

They've just put a black man in the White House! Nothing else matters!

Gordon Brown is to order Labour MPs to back a controversial plan to exempt details of MPs' expenses from the Freedom of Information Act.
The prime minister will impose a three-line whip on the vote, raising the prospect of a backbench rebellion.

Ministers say disclosing details has to be affordable but critics accuse them of a plot to conceal MPs' expenses.

Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg said the move was "outrageous". Lib Dem and Tory MPs will be ordered to vote against it.

The move follows a long-running Freedom of Information case in which campaigners sought to get details of MPs' expenses, which totalled £87.6m in 2006-7, published.



news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/7841702.stm

[mids]

Christ I fcuking hate Brown. Thieving cnut. Just when you think he can't get any more contemptable, he does.

[Beachcomber]

I wonder if the Tax Man would accept my refusal to declare part of my income on the grounds that it's none of his business ?

[VikingHumpingWitch]

Jan 21, 2009 12:12:12 GMT Beachcomber said:

I wonder if the Tax Man would accept my refusal to declare part of my income on the grounds that it's none of his business ?

Bwahahaha that's my tax hassles solved! "It's not that I'm not willing to disclose my income, it's just that to do so would be prohibitively expensive."

[Deleted]

New thing over here is that the tax man allows new business 50% of turnover as expenses. You don't have to declare or invent anything. So if you TO 20k you only pay tax on 10k. It's Sarko trying to revive the flagging spirit of enterprise. Good on the man. And he's insisting on public enquiries into bank profits and bonuses.

[VikingHumpingWitch]

Hmm. How do I go about registering my company in France?

[Deleted]

You have to be resident, Senior Member (gnash)

[yord]

sooner ort later they'll realise that anyone generating wealth should not be payoing any tax

[Beachcomber]

My last tax bill (for 2007 - 2008) was for £459

(I've got a good accountant)

[Deleted]

It'd be a start, a way of getting money circulating again instead of pouring into black holes

[yord]

not that good , mine was 396 and just been paid waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

[VikingHumpingWitch]

Well I've got something that I think is requesting I fork out something in the region of 120,000 kronor (but I'm not sure). I need an accountant.

Anyway, MPs, this government, hate.

[yord]

you need a get out jail free card

[Deleted]

I haven't paid income tax for years now. But a fortune in non-reclaimable VAT if you add it all up.

[VikingHumpingWitch]

I think I'm owed 80,000 in overpaid VAT but I seem to have inadvertantly lost the bits of paper telling me how to reclaim it.

God I hate working for myself.

[yord]

ah well you only make that mistake once , if you survive it

[reverend]

I'm extremely bothered by all these MP's expenses because I cant get them!

[Deleted]

Can't you reclaim VAT online hump?

[yord]

naaaaaaa your just bothered coz you daft enough to vote for them . Are you just as bothered that some people have yachts and you dont ?

[reverend]

if the yacht is paid for out of my taxes yes!