Post by MikePost by NiteawkPost by FarcryPost by NiteawkTony McNulty Employment Minister claims 60 grand for using his parents
house as a base. Apparently he spent the odd day there doing
constituency work. He did not stay overnight but still claimed for it
as a "second home". His own house is a few miles away in Hammersmith.
How the hell can they get away with robbing tax payers like that, its
not like his parents were renting the family home out to him. Where the
hell does the figure 60k come into it for visiting your parents? What
sort of work was he doing that could only be done at his parents house?
Fiddling bastards the lot of them.
What beggars belief he has been on national TV tonight and honestly
thinks he has done nothing wrong apparently he has done constituency
work from there his parents house what the fuck is wrong with him doing
that work from his own house ? ohh silly me he wouldn't get £60000 for
fuck all if he did that.... another greedy bent politician who should be
ran out of office asap.
Apparently his office is within walking distance of his parents house. I
love the wording they used when describing this fraud, "MP's have a right
to claim expenses to make up their pay" thats why they have these
expenses, like 100k + PA is not enough to live on for doing nothing. If
they can fiddle within the law, so can I ;)
I wonder what HMRC would have to say about this?
Expenses are to re-imburse costs wholly incurred as a result of work,
although there's often an element of profit involved e.g. allowances and
mileage rates. If MPs are 'topping up' their wages rather than reclaiming
a genuine work expense then HMRC ought to be assessing tax liability even
if it is within the commons rules.
If a S/E plummer tried to claim his parents mortgage cost's because he did
his books there or stored tools in the garge he'd be accused of fiddling
his tax and slapped with a punitive charge.
Of course he would challenged about it, but there is not much they can do if
he was using his parents house as an office as long as it is registered, it
is tax deductable. What do you think HMRC would say if he claimed his
retired parents were directors of the company and split the profits x 3
reducing his tax bill to next to nothing.
Post by MikeAs HMRC is beholden to Darling and he's not about to screw another cabinet
member (let's not forget the second home secretary), HMRC will have now't
to say.
Of course the sad part of all this is that impressionable people like
niteawk see gov ministers behaving in a cavalier and morally wrong manner
with the taxpayers money. They then make little distinction between that
and their own cash in hand work etc. Suddenly we are a nation of corrupt
expense fiddlers with politicians holding the new low ground.
The government are the biggest thieves in the land. They decide their own
pay and it still isnt enough for them. You name it and they claim it. There
is nothing that they do not help themselves to out of the public purse. They
have second jobs, G Brown consultant to Tesco. They create jobs for
themselves, T Blair peace envoy? and when they leave the cabinet half a
dozen times, like fkin yoyo's some of them, Mandleson? they end up being
paid as consultants to government awarded contracts ala Blunket on A4e, or
working for the BBC as directors of BS. They all end up as directors or
consultants for large companies who were awarded multi million pound
contracts by the government. Of course this is not a fiddle, its pure luck
that they land these jobs that they rarely if ever go to. Cant see Brown
sitting on the board of Tesco when he is supposed to be running the country.