They probably own the mansion and aren't asking the tax payer to house them
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Jahled Three shades of black, Thu 8 May 2014, 22:52,
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Except that they are, because they're tax-dodging cunts.
Can't be arsed to go look it up right now, but Private Eye did a FOI request to HMRC last year or maybe the year before. It seems that fewer than 20% of the landed gentry pay ANY UK tax on their mansions. Add to that the Russian gangsters, registered Non-Doms, Tax Exile Celebs, Bankers, Judges etc Not forgetting our totally non-corrupt MPs of course, and something like 90% or so of all the mansions in the UK are either tax exempt, or their owners' lawyers can get sweetener deals with the HMRC making them effectively tax-exempt, and in some cases have even received tax-payers' money for them thus paying Negative Tax.
So yeah, they're not asking the tax payer to pay to house them, they're fucking DEMANDING that we do so, and the cunts are getting away with it.
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stuj (^(^;;^)^) GO TEAM SPIDERS!(^(^;;^)^), Thu 8 May 2014, 23:35,
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