Panama Papers

[VladimirIlyich]

None of this is news is it? I'm not shocked by any of these details. Common knowledge that the richest have the ability, and generally use that ability, to minimise their tax liability through legal means. I don't think any notable UK individuals have been accused of doing anything illegal?

This is the problem. The terms 'legal' and 'immoral' are miles apart.

[Jairzinho]

This is only the fourth largest law firm of it's type, no?

 

Hopefully Wikileaks have got stuff on the three bigger as well.

[Gnasher]

Wouldn't suprise me if Corbyn the commie got things to hide. The trotsky terrorist probably got a couple of quid stashed in a post office account.

[Guest Numero Veinticinco]

Wouldn't suprise me if Corbyn the commie got things to hide. The trotsky terrorist probably got a couple of quid stashed in a post office account.

The profits from his hemp business alone must run in to literally hundreds of pounds a year.

[Naz17]

This is the problem. The terms 'legal' and 'immoral' are miles apart.

Well...sure...but that debate is an old one. There's nothing in these leaks that stand out to me as being significantly new or surprising.

[Russ Atmosphere]

The stuff about Cameron's dad is old news mostly, but it seems like it has a platform now.

[VladimirIlyich]

Well...sure...but that debate is an old one. There's nothing in these leaks that stand out to me as being significantly new or surprising.

To you and me maybe,but stuff like this is in the public interest and needs to be said,even if it comes to nothing.

[cloggypop]

Well...sure...but that debate is an old one. There's nothing in these leaks that stand out to me as being significantly new or surprising.

It's solid proof. It can only be a good thing.

[Naz17]

To you and me maybe,but stuff like this is in the public interest and needs to be said,even if it comes to nothing.

Fair enough.

[AngryOfTuebrook]

Walnuts.

[Spy Bee]

To you and me maybe,but stuff like this is in the public interest and needs to be said,even if it comes to nothing.

Significant enough to the Icelandic PM to resign, and there's more to come.

[Dr Nowt]

The Icelandic PM had absolutely no chance after their somewhat different to most countries reaction to "the credit crunch".

 

And props to them for that.

[moof]

None of this is news is it? I'm not shocked by any of these details. Common knowledge that the richest have the ability, and generally use that ability, to minimise their tax liability through legal means. I don't think any notable UK individuals have been accused of doing anything illegal?

Nah you're right, tax dodging is not news. Can't wait for it to be brushed under the carpet and never spoken about again.

[Rico1304]

From Twitter:

 

Any MP with tax avoidance schemes abroad should face a recall from their voters. Any front benched should resign or be sacked.

[Alan Sex]

[Bobby Hundreds]

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/jess-phillips/david-cameron-taxes_b_9622288.html

[cloggypop]

UEFA has been raided again today off the back of this.

 

[stringvest]

So, most of the western beneficiaries still being kept out of the news?

 

 

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[Spy Bee]

So, most of the western beneficiaries still being kept out of the news?

 

 

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Kinda depends. How many of them are trhere?

 

I can't imagine Wikileaks and alike would withhold data like that.

[Jairzinho]

Kinda depends. How many of them are trhere?

 

I can't imagine Wikileaks and alike would withhold data like that.

 

It's an interesting dynamic with Wikileaks in control of drip feeding stuff to the press and then the press being in control of drip feeding stuff to the public.

 

Do Wikileaks have stuff on/from the three larger law firms of this variety? If so have they gone with this one first because it has more stuff on Western "baddies" and therefore they want any mainstream media cuntery out of the way first? Who knows?

 

The first BBC story on this essentially had the full fucking list of everyone on the CIA naughty step - Assad, Gaddafi, Putin, China, North Korea, basically anyone that isn't Team America. Maybe Wikileaks are playing a bit of a blinder here, maybe not. 

[VladimirIlyich]

From Twitter:

 

Any MP with tax avoidance schemes abroad should face a recall from their voters. Any front benched should resign or be sacked.

You forgot the jail part too,as this is what happens to people at the lower end of the scale.

[cloggypop]

Most US citizens will have been using Delaware rather than Panama.

[M_B]

No one goes to jail for tax avoidance.

 

.....tax evasion on the other hand....

[VladimirIlyich]

No one goes to jail for tax avoidance.

 

.....tax evasion on the other hand....

You are quite correct of course but it again goes back to the legal versus immoral comment I made in an earlier post.They are light years apart.

[Ginny]

I like the way the Icelandic people bounced onto the streets and caused some shit. British people are too polite and bovine to do anything about this. So indoctrinated and worn down by the system that we just bend over and take it. It would take something a lot bigger than this for the people to rise up.