Your Turn Mister Corbyn

[CrapAtCryptics]

Now Dave has published his finances it must be time for Corbyn to follow suit if not all the MPs. Watching the news this morning I cant see anything wrong with Camerons finances that even a moderately financial astute person wouldnt do. As far as his money from parents as long as his taxes are paid what business is it of ours.

[naomi24]

//as long as his taxes are paid what business is it of ours. //

None.

[bhg481]

Exactly, anyone with more than 1 working brain cell aims to minimise their taxes. Giving children money now, rather than waiting till you die, in order to save death duties is only common sense.

[ummmm]

It's none of our business...

[sandyRoe]

I don't suppose Corbyn's dad left him 300k or his mum made gifts of 100K.

[bhg481]

I'm waiting for someone to declare that they would refuse to accept an inheritance because it came from an ISA, so had been part of a tax-avoidance scheme.

[naomi24]

//I don't suppose Corbyn's dad left him 300k or his mum made gifts of 100K. //

Oh, I don't know. In his early years he attended a fee-paying school.

[mikey4444]

BHG....ISAs are not "tax avoidance"....ISAs are available for anybody to take out, in lots of different ways and the IR allow people to save in these tax-free vehicles, in order to encourage people to save....which is a "good thing "

What Dave has done wrong here this week, is that it took him 5 consecutive to get to the truth. He now owns up to his mistake :::

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-36004837

He has now come clean and apologised, so as far as I am concerned that is it. There are a lot of things that this Government is doing that gives cause for concern, and I think that its about we dropped this subject of Dave's affairs and concentrated on really important issues.

[bhg481]

ISAs are a means of saving without paying tax on the interest so, by definition, a means of tax avoidance. Putting savings in your wife's name, because you pay tax and she doesn't, is another method. I use both and I don't consider myself to be immoral.

[naomi24]

bhg481, quite right.

[TWR]

If the UK Tax system was a fair Tax system, I doubt this Issue would have started the ball rolling, & roll it will with more to come.

[naomi24]

But TWR, as someone said yesterday, where do you think your pension funds are invested in order to gain the biggest returns? It’s all very well complaining and wallowing in the politics of envy – until you realise that people who can't afford to invest on a personal level also benefit from such schemes.

[TWR]

Although I do not care much for D.C. Naomi, what goes on in his personal Life has sod all to do with anyone else, he dropped a clanger when speaking about A.C.regards the Pensions, that's another issue.

[CrapAtCryptics]

Corbyn will probably claim a donkey jacket allowance as working attire.

[mushroom25]

mr corbyn's critics have no need to enquire after his tax afairs - the labour leader has plenty of other issues he can be criticised for......http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/apr/07/british-jewish-leader-corbyn-must-stop-fobbing-off-antisemitism-in-labour

[CrapAtCryptics]

Not a bad prediction as it turned out - boring as hell but it doesnt hurt to remind them they are ordinary mortals occasionally.