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Christine Lagarde pays no tax!

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WaltonRed Grand Master

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after having a go at the Greeks to cough up more tax its revealled she doesnt pay a penny

 

this sums up the whole mess, the powers that be laugh whilst the poor take the hit.

 

 

Christine Lagarde, scourge of tax evaders, pays no tax | Business | guardian.co.uk

 

Christine Lagarde, the IMF boss who caused international outrage after she suggested in an interview with the Guardian on Friday that beleaguered Greeks might do well to pay their taxes, pays no taxes, it has emerged.

 

As an official of an international institution, her salary of $467,940 (£298,675) a year plus $83,760 additional allowance a year is not subject to any taxes.

 

The former French finance minister took over as managing director of the IMF last year when she succeeded her disgraced compatriot Dominique Strauss-Kahn, who was forced to resign after he faced charges – later dropped – of sexually attacking a New York hotel maid.

 

Lagarde, 56, receives a pay and benefits package worth more than American president Barack Obama earns from the United States government, and he pays taxes on it.

 

The same applies to nearly all United Nations employees – article 34 of the Vienna convention on diplomatic relations of 1961, which has been signed by 187 states, declares: "A diplomatic agent shall be exempt from all dues and taxes, personal or real, national, regional or municipal."

 

According to Lagarde's contract she is also entitled to a pay rise on 1 July every year during her five-year contract.

 

Base salaries range from $46,000 to $80,521. Senior salaries range between $95,394 and $123,033 but these are topped up with adjustments for the cost of living in different countries. A UN worker based in Geneva, for example, will see their base salary increased by 106%, in Bonn by 50.6%, Paris 62% and Peshawar 38.6%. Even in Juba, the capital of South Sudan, one of the poorest areas of the world, a UN employee's salary will be increased by 53.2%.

 

Other benefits include rent subsidies, dependency allowances for spouses and children, education grants for school-age children and travel and shipping expenses, as well as subsidised medical insurance.

 

For many years critics have complained that IMF, World Bank, and United Nations employees are able to live large at international taxpayers' expense.

 

During the 1944 economic conference at Bretton Woods, where the IMF was created, American and British politicians disagreed over salaries for the bureaucrats. British delegates, including the economist John Maynard Keynes, considered the American proposals for salaries to be "monstrous", but lost the argument.

 

Officials from the various organisations have long maintained that the high salaries are a way of attracting talent from the private sector. In fact, most senior employees are recruited from government posts.

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I didn't know SD. Why are they exempt?

 

 

Because of this treaty:

 

Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

We can of course discuss whether or not it's right in this day and age for diplomats to have quite as much immunity as they do have, but I don't think it's unreasonable for the head of the IMF to take a position on taxation even though she doesn't pay income tax herself.

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I do and so will millions of other people its called being a cheeky cunt or for the more intelligent, a hypocrite of the highest order

 

 

So what would you suggest she do? Pay tax that she is legally unable to pay? Not do her job properly?

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So what would you suggest she do? Pay tax that she is legally unable to pay? Not do her job properly?

 

Set an example, call for those in positions such as hers to pay tax, seeing as we're all in it together.[/quote}]

 

In one

 

Lead the way, force a law change, dont piss on people in terrible trouble already about coughing up more when you dont yourself

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Fine, except she's not allowed to be be political in her role, and that would almost certainly cross a line.

 

So calling for Greek workers to pay more tax isn't political? Or how about her saying last week that she shivered at the thought of continuing with the economic plan that Labour had when they left office. If she wants to enter debates about the tax others pay then she can also point out how fucking obscene it is that a millionaire like her avoids it altogether. Hell, she could even note that others might be more willing to pay their taxes if they didn't see the elite lecturing them whilst avoiding it. She's a fucking hypocrite, IMO.

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So some fat arsed pampered cunt who pays fuck all and gets a free ride through life, a Millionaire who has all the advantages that life can offer,. is telling the downtrodden to pay more tax, work harder and work for less? Is she a member of the coalition?

Lost a limb? Have a terminal illness? Registrered as disabled? Well fuck you, there are some tables at Sainsburys that need cleaning for 50 hours a week for 80 quid. Dont do it and some pampered, posh, arrogant fuck called Cameron or Clegg will make sure that 80 quid disappears faster than you can say 'discrimination is acceptable'.

Except they wont, they will pay Atos to discriminate and bully on their behalf.

Tell you what you fat fucking stinking cunted witch, the day that you, Cameron, Clegg, Osborne and the rest of the cunts work for nothing and have rising costs passed on to you, is the day that I and the rest of us will. I wonder when the last time this fucking cunt paid for a meal was? About the same time as the cunts running this country was.

Fuck you, you fucking cunts.

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Because of this treaty:

 

Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

We can of course discuss whether or not it's right in this day and age for diplomats to have quite as much immunity as they do have, but I don't think it's unreasonable for the head of the IMF to take a position on taxation even though she doesn't pay income tax herself.

Stronts in "defending-the-cunts-and-the-system-that-fosters-their-cuntery" shocker.

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Fine, except she's not allowed to be be political in her role, and that would almost certainly cross a line.

Her role is to support and promote an extreme form of capitalism which has failed to do anything other than make a tiny minority extremely rich, by impoverishing the minority everywhere it has been imposed on people.

 

In what world can this be described as "not political"?

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