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Because some won't view it as it's GB News, I can answer the question. NO! Clothing like suits / dresses are NOT "an office expense". The background lies in a tax case Mallalieu v Drummond where a barrister (yeah, i know!!) had claimed a dark suit and white blouses as she had to be dressed...

Starmer certainly hasn't helped himself by accepting free corporate hospitality from Arsenal. I totally understand and fully accept the security issues of him "standing on the terraces" and that the cost of his personal security is significantly less if he is in corporate hospitality. All...

And? That person may well be a solicitor. They work. And your point is? But I've decided not to play cat to your mouse any longer! I know full well the political point you are trying to score here but Starmer never said that IHT wouldn't be increased for "working people" did he? If he...

:lolol: YES! A living person has to pay the IHT to the Treasury. Dead people and cats have struggled to do it in the past. So HMRC put in place new rules banning the deceased and cats and insisted it has to be a living person that writes the cheque or does the bank transfer.

That's not the way Wills are typically worded. Have a look at your dad's Will. You can use your "moralistic" argument for any tax. Why should the Treasury take 20% of my wages under PAYE? Why should the Treasury take 28% Capital Gains Tax when I sold my second home for a £500K profit? Of...

There you go https://www.gov.uk/inheritance-tax

You're not really that daft are you? Of course "a person" ie the Executor has to physically pay IHT to HMRC from the monies realised from the deceased's Estate. Yes, the Executor is a living person but not sure how you have concluded that it is the Executor's money that is being paid. An...

Or unless you make yourself a "preferential creditor" ie continue to pay yourself (or otherwise draw money from the company) instead of paying the company's debts.

Whenever I hear SPG ....

Really? Are you intent on derailing EVERY thread with your ADHD? We get it. Now knock it on the head mate please.

“No man in this country is under the smallest obligation, moral or other, so to arrange his legal relations to his business or to his property as to enable the Inland Revenue to put the largest possible shovel into his stores.” Lord Clyde - Ayrshire Pullman Motor Services & Ritchie vs CIR...

This is true. I read somewhere that the parents of private school educated kids who wouldn't be able to pay the 20% VAT on the fees are making pre-payments of the fees in the millions to avoid paying the VAT. Bit odd that one minute "we can't afford to pay the VAT boo hoo" and the next minute...

Quite. Cameron said it was "immoral" when he was PM. But neither he nor the parade of Tory PMs after him have done anything about it. (Hmmm, I wonder why) Tax avoidance schemes in their many guises will continue until they are made illegal. Until that happens (I'm betting it won't) it is...

Starmer being tackled on taking £76K of "freebies" (including 16K of free clothes). All quite properly declared and registered. But it just isn't a good look. He has his snout in the freebie trough and he hasn't actually won the GE yet. Starmer put most of it down to "Arsenal hospitality"...

Not me for sure. The first Freeport was set up by dear ol' Maggie in the 1980s. David Cameron when he was Tory PM decided to ditch Freeports and they were resurrected again in 2019 under Johnson. There haven't been, so far as I can see, any Brexit benefits at all. Johnson's "oven ready...

He had no choice after his deputy shafted him by saying that Diane Abbot should be allowed to stand as a Labour candidate. Let's not forget that Rayner was elected Deputy Leader by the Labour Party itself. She was not selected by Starmer as deputy leader. She deserves much credit for standing...

I know that HWT is just being a WUM regarding the Labour Party and it is mildy amusing. But I know that HWT has read the thread where Borat produced this letter produced in the Guardian which perhaps puts Abbott's comments in context. And tbh it makes absolute sense. Speaking as a Jewish...