You can't prescribe against it, it's human nature
It all gets fed back into the economy anyway, and will attract VAT, Stamp, CGT, IHT in any event.
( Light In Chains maker of the ikea sofa, Tue 19 Jun 2012, 15:49, 1 reply, 13 years ago)

Via a K2 in Jersey?
I doubt it'll "all come out in the wash"
(PsychoChomp, Tue 19 Jun 2012, 15:51, Reply)

He's at the extreme end of avoidance
Most avoidance that goes on is the likes of battered buying fivolous ipads as a 'necessary expence of the business' when really that's bollocks. Still attracts vat, and pays staff wages along the way though. It's not exactly turkmenistan.
( Light In Chains maker of the ikea sofa, Tue 19 Jun 2012, 15:55, Reply)

also
say battered earns £100k, so he pays £3k a month in tax. meanwhile someone else earns £25k a year, so he only pays £750 in tax.

if battered is already contributing £2,250 more per month in tax because of nothing more than his own hard work and abilities, does it matter quite as much if he then skanks a bit of ipad tax back?

moral dilemma...
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 19 Jun 2012, 16:06, Reply)

human nature aint it
irrespective of rights or wrongs nobody will ever go 'please sir take some more', it's the opposite. You only have to look at the ongoing expenses scandal to see what the great and the good of the nation get up to, down to the chavs on the council estate on incapacity and carers allowance cos nobody gives a fuck
( Light In Chains maker of the ikea sofa, Tue 19 Jun 2012, 16:11, Reply)

depends
pricks on low salaries are mighty quick to say: "please sir, take some more - of their salaries"

people are by nature out to get what they can and keep what they can. and anyone who thinks otherwise is (i) naive and (ii) guaranteed to be a low earner themselves
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 19 Jun 2012, 16:15, Reply)

Yes but high earners have a lot more disposable income than low earners
so taking that bit extra doesn't make things a struggle for them.
( Peej, Tue 19 Jun 2012, 16:22, Reply)

And anyway my wife is an accountant and claims back all sorts of little bits here and there
Even though we could afford not too, so I am a massive hypocrite
( Peej, Tue 19 Jun 2012, 16:24, Reply)

You aint got a mortgage to pay in london
they're steep man
( Light In Chains maker of the ikea sofa, Tue 19 Jun 2012, 16:26, Reply)

I used too
and it was cheaper than the one I'm paying in Cornwall.
( Peej, Tue 19 Jun 2012, 16:51, Reply)