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I suspect that Old Mother Riley would have seen a good story in this whole business.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
As a tax advisor I recognized that understanding those schemes is very hard, perhaps because there is too much simulation going on, the other thing funny is El Chapo trying to make things legal with trusts and everything
I admit I do not understand your comment
Well I get that a lot and in Spanish, so it’s harder in English. In my opinion much of this offshore tax planning include scenarios that pretend to be real or bonafide, but in reality looked like Cinderella’s stepsisters tryin to fit into the coveted shoe, and my remark of El Chapo is to make fun of his tangled existence, hope this make it more clear, I appreciate your feedback and would be nice if you come to Mexico, that you coukd give us a talk on this Panama papers or other subject, as soon as I finish your book I’ll send you my feedback
I’ve never been….
Let’s see
Richard
Mr Murphy, I am a grandma, had to watch covertly.
Sorry!
Brilliant and eloquently to the point. We’re living in grim times, but let us recognise how effective, and necessary, satire and comedy can be as political tools.
I will for the first time donate to a vlogger. He’s great. Could do without the ‘c’ word though, consider it rather mysogynistic.
I agree with that
Very funny.
Charles Walker needs to get out more.
1. All tax returns are available for public inspection in Sweden (good enough for Sweden – good enough for the UK?)
2. The style in Dutch households (& most Flemish) is no curtains on the ground floor (we have no curtains). I’m not suggesting a law btw – just that Charlie seems to have led a cloistered existence – poor boy.
I look at the availability of data in mainland Europe, in general terms it is somewhat more open than in the UK. Example: The Danes take the view that if society has to, for example, subsidise wind turbines, production data (for each turbine!!) should be available. It is. In the UK, Ofgem come out with the usual bollocks that it is commercially confidential. Cadastral data (who owns what house) available to all etc etc ad nauseum.
Popper should have re-named his book: “The Open Society & its Enemies” – “The Open Society & its Tory Enemies”.
Good link Richard, thanks..
Comedy and satire are valuable political weapons, much more for the progressive left than the right, I think.
Popular notions of what is fair are if not exactly changing then at least becoming more urgent and relevant now in the wake of the 2008/9 banking crash.
Cameron’s clumsy, car-crash incremental response to the Panama Paper revelations reveals the difficulty the right has in recognising and adjusting to this.
I suspect that many conservatives know in their hearts that they are on the wrong side of the argument. They know that working and poor people know we’re not all in this together.
I’ve just tread the Telegraph View this morning (won’t bother linking to it) and oh boy: it really is just a sanctimonious, prolix example of ‘man’s oldest exercises in moral philosophy’.
I am beginning to feel sorry for Cameron – he can’t seem to get anything right. The partial disclosure of his affairs makes things worse – especially so far as his political ‘friends’ are concerned. I can’t wish him well.