Brussels Tells Mandy: EU Can Avoid Tax
The European Court of Justice has ruled that retired Eurocrats including the yacht-loving Lord Mandelson will be allowed to dodge tax on a huge scale. Brussels pensions are exempt from national taxes, meaning that the likes of Mandelson and Neil Kinnock only have to cough up 8% on their five-figure taxpayer-funded EU income. Am guessing the Euro-Judges will benefit from their ruling too. The decision to permit an official tax avoidance scheme for former EU officials comes as Brussels cracks down on tax dodging across the continent. Guido wonders whether George Osborne thinks his old friend Mandy is morally repugnant…
Referendum, please.
I’m intensely relaxed about people getting filthy rich as long as they pay their taxes
And still they get voted in!!
We certainly have the governance we deserve.
Vote UKIP!
http://ukip.org/content/latest-news/2714-dont-be-fooled-again-by-nigel-farage
Unfortunate URL but content is good.
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/politics/4420869/UKIP-leader-Nigel-Farage-on-need-for-vote-on-UK-membership-of-EU.html
I’m intensely relaxed about people getting filthy rich by founding a business that produces products that p[people want to buy and then not paying any more tax than they have to. I’m intensely pissed off about politicians, bureaucrats and any others that spend their whole life robbing productive people and then syphon off great wads of cash for themselves.
More importantly I believe he and his ilk are morally repugnant.
Yet another good reason for voting UKIP.
Another example of Mandy getting what HE wants via the backdooor…..
Reason to leave the EU number 4175.
Can’t we just kill them? All of them…
I can’t think of a better option. It’s easy, quick, cheap and humane, though the bastards don’t deserve anything like humane treatment.
Spot on, NSF. Although a decent public hanging (I’ll supply the piano wire) of the bastards is very appealing too…
Ha ha ha ha ha ha!!!!
Taliban justice? One 7.62×39 round to the back of the head for everything from late library books to mass murder. Um…….. yep could work.
Too quick for the EU-lovers.
Deprive them of their wealth and property,
don’t let them leave the country,
tag them,
and make them work in minimum-wage jobs.
as a grumpy old russian used to say to me
politicians should eat shit
quite how poor mr. mandelson is expected to eat himself is unclear;
it’d be worth watching though, wouldn’t it.
I have decided to stand for the European Parliament, once I have been granted a peerage. Thanks for the info Guido. Boaz.
Is it worth pointing out that in keeping with tabloid tradition almost everything in this “scoop” is pure fiction?
Thought not.
It is worth pointing out IF you can provide some evidence to support your assertion. Otherwise your just being a knob.
“Guido wonders whether George Osborne thinks his old friend Mandy is morally repugnant…”
Only morally??????
Anally?
More, anally?
The EU is repugnant ,
Kinnock , Blair & Mandy are just princes and princesses trying to become kings & queens of an EU crown .
As With every republican there’s a monarchist Trying to get out .
Now keep quiet and pay your taxes, Oh yeah & buy your own boat This one mine thanks
I want to be an EU official when I grow up !
Didn’t Kevin (Bloody) Wilson make a song about that.
‘If’, not ‘when’.
The EU trough is far larger than that of Parliament. Oink, Oink!
Isn’t it just. I can’t wait personally.
You’ve got your name wrong Mr Gotterdammerung. And don’t forget the umlauts.
I don’t tell you how to spell your name.
It’s only the slobs who pay taxes we Eurocrats are exempt, no fkin wonder these gangs of political money grabbers want to keep us in this club of corruption
Ed Miliband says the european court of justice just doesn’t get it. Any word from Ed on Mandleson and Kinnock tax avoidance?
Me and the Mrs look you boyo between us have a pension of £163k to which I only have to pay 8% tax. I also have loads coming in due to my non execs of companies I am lobbying for.
Now how do I get the Winter Fuel Allowance?
Have you tried the local crematorium?
Don’t forget the Kinnock kids are also sucking on the public teat. Non of the family have ever had to turn a profit in their lives.how do these fuckers sleep at night?
Soundly in our Tempura selective memory foam beds
Are they on expenses for political prostitutes who sell out their country?
You have impugned my tax return, and I demand a refund
If the EU are are interfering with out tax laws this is a transfer of powers from the Uk to the EU, call me dave stated that the EU will have no power or mandate to meddle with our tax laws
Quite. If the British eurocrats can keep all their pensions then they should be barred from ever returning to or visiting the UK. they can live out their lives in luxury in Brussels.
Perhaps they should all get a winter fuel allowance too?
The value of a tanker shipful of oil paid into any suitable offshore account tax-free would seem appropriate.
An armoured vehicle with a flame thrower would avoid the need to reimburse them personally
Sit down, shut up!Wave the circle of stars, sing Ode to Joy and be grateful!
Hope you all read the Tapestry blog about how Murray could not keep it up!
Well, hard pressed businesses, pensioners and their funds and all tax payers will be pleased to keep these individuals in the life styles that they are accustomed to, while we lesser mortals struggle on the generous state pensions so graciously offered to us by our wonderful and supportive leaders!! FFS!!
If this proves to be the situation then the case for a referendum NOW, IN or OUT of the EUSSR becomes even more pressing. Its yet another example of these Parasites & Pimps who’s motto is “Don’t do as we do, do as we say !!”
CMD The One Term Tory TOFF Liar will of course continue to kick this matter into the long grass for as long as possible with his delaying tactic of let see what happens, while we suffer a lingering demise. We really need to continue to give CMD, The One Term Tory TOFF Liar a very bloody nose @ every opportunity as he just does not get it in his cosy parallel Tory TOFF universe.
The mendacity & outright manipulation by the ConsLieLaborLibDems must not be accepted any longer.
VOTE UKIP………..& kick all of this shower of sh*t out of Power !!!!
Funny that! I have just been watching the History Channel’s documentary about the assassination of JFK. Looks like we are going to be needing a few more Oswalds shortly.
Buy the elite and screw the rest!
Corrupted banking system. Dissociated political class not chiming with the electorate. Political institutions unable to resolve a European economy which is chronically sick. High internet penetration of the population. People increasingly anxious about the future.
Question. How far off is the British Spring?
The way these EUSSR tsars are acting it will be much sooner than they think & will
be very bloody as this self propagating EUSSR Cancer is violently eradicated for good.
Of course CMD won’t see it coming until it erupts in his face but what else do you expect from this Tory Toff Liar ! He just does not get it……..
How do I get out of this Westminster hellhole of cramped offices, argumentative politicos, nosey journalists and interfering constituents?
I should be in the Strasbourg palace. Hot and cold running champagne from Vilroy taps. Walk in pension shower with en-suite mistress.
No whips in Brussels. If the EU Powers want you to adopt a position they put gold ingots in front of you until you agree.
Bill Quango MEP for Euro region 9, La Manche, Calais aux Londres.
I could do that. Gizza job!
These self serving k.unts should be hung.
A solid case for an In/OUT vote if ever I have seen one.
Don’t think a vote is going to sort this out. It’s going to take piano wire, lamp posts and pitch forks. Minimum.
Forthcoming DailyWail campaigns:
- Kiddie hurt by piano – surely it’s time to remove these wire-dependent relics from our modern society?
- HSE say lamp posts are accidents waiting to happen on OUR streets. Won’t someone think of the children (other than the pedos, obviously)?
- Pitch forks are lethal weapons LEGALLY available for sale, including to criminal drug gangs. Surely these dangerous weapons should be licensed, for the sake of the children.
No prob – we revert to sharpened sticks and bows n arrers…
Tomorrow I will make a statement in the House
” As a result of his brilliant effort at Wimbledon,Andy Murray will be exempt from tax ”
I commend this proposal to the House.
To be fair winning the lottery is not subject to tax, and given that these parasites have done fuck all to earn it, it should be treat like the windfall it is just like a lottery win.
Can anyone tell me the difference between winning the lottery and getting on the EU gravy train? Well apart from the odds.
The difference? You don’t need to buy a ticket to get on to the EU gravy train – it’s a free ride.
The EUSSR is corrupt & totally fixed in there favour, there is no difference between Gangsters & the totally corrupt thieves that run our lives from there EUSSR Mafia Palace’s in Brussels
With one you have to pick a load of balls and the other you only have to talk a load of balls.
The difference is, you pay tax when buying a ticket. People on the gravy train have spent years or decades on tax funded salaries before getting their tax funded windfall pension, on which they don”t even have to pay tax!
The odds are not so different; just try entering an open competition, which you will have to sit in a foreign language – surely no problem to the “best educated generation ever” with their clutches of A*. A few hundred will pass from a field of about 50,000.
You pay tax on the stake not the winnings. The govt gets its share don’t you worry.
VOTE UKIP – Give Clegg, Kinnock & Mandelson the choice: Your EU pension or your British citizenship – you cannot have both.
And I wonder if anyone saw Kinnock’s hypocritical little letter in yesterday’s Guardian?
‘Lies, misrepresentations and conspiracy are at the core of the grave concern about the delinquent fixing of the Libor rate and associated misconduct by Barclays and others (Osborne’s dirt-digging raises questions for Tories, 7 July).
‘Has there ever been a better reason for commissioning judicial reviews, with witnesses required, crucially, to give evidence on oath? One review should quickly and specifically pursue the Libor-fixing issues; another, with great deliberation and breadth, should investigate, expose, report on and recommend on the conduct of financial services.
‘When truth is so manifestly at stake, it is vital that the government follows the one course that would maximise the possibility of finding it by making lies a crime of contempt instead of a regrettable convention of business. Cameron’s excuse that he wants a “speedy” inquiry in parliament is a fig leaf – and we all know what fig leaves cover. Even the most brilliant select committee doesn’t take evidence on oath. It can embarrass but not prosecute. It’s time to go beyond that.
Neil Kinnock
Labour, House of Lords’
A truly disgusting little creep.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2012/jul/08/delinquent-bankers-put-on-oath?INTCMP=SRCH
Was there a better reason for Welsh independence than Kinnock?
I long for the day when they actually take the opportunity to get off welfare as a nation.
Then we can deport the Kinnock clan & confiscate their ill gotten gains.
A truly disgusting liar, traitor and hypocrit.
Only thing wrong with your comment, there are more people on welfare in london alone than the sum of the whole population of Wales
That’s because of all the Welsh who flock to London Taff.
And we are British, unlike those in Londonistan.
Aren’t you what was left over after the Anglo-Saxons took what they wanted?
Don’t forget Labour scraped a Welsh win in the last GE, one seat was decided by drawing a straw FFS, and the locals delivered a Labour win because of that vacuous, treacherous c*nt leading the Cons.
Ukip are building momentum in Wales, and they along with freedom from Eussr, want the Sennedd disolved. I can’t wait for both of those things to happen, but the last will mean we the Welsh, can be freed from the authoritarian tyranical Labour yoke.
When if ever will we get an enquiry into the oligarchs in Brussels troughing at the EU citizens expense?
What exactly do they all do Neil?
I would like to offer my sincere apologies to all the millionaires,whose taxes I couldn’t reduce even further.
The EU will take your pension away if you are rude about it, just like the largesse it gives to the BBC etc which will be withdrawn if the recipient does not advertise the source of funds and is critical of the EU.
Mind you, I bet Mandy enjoys a bit of carrot and stick just like Glenys…
Shall I knock up a new logo Peter?
If call me dave has stated on many occasions that the EU will not have any mandate to meddle in our tax affairs, he has the power to intruduce the EU troughers tax at 90%
Of course there won’t be any report of this EUSSR corrupt legal ruling on the Biased Broadcast Company aka BBC !!
Of course the biased bbc will not say a word, the long term ambition of the biased bbc is to make themselves into a department of the EU
It has been since day 1 in the early 1970s.
I so enjoy tweeting, particularly #sozborne
Rather witty.
This latest proof of EU corruption should be plastered all over the media. What’s the betting the BBC will never mention it? Oh I forgot. They’ve stopped taking bets on the BBC revealing anything remotely anti-EU a long time ago.
At least bankers like Diamond are only ripping off their shareholders.
Kinnock and Mandy are ripping off the poor, old, sick and young.
We are definitely not all in this together.
Meanwhile the state which has so far ripped savers of £375 Billion with QE, now wants to steal even more off the very pensioners who have made a big contribution to the UK economy.
The state (and Big Brother EU) is your enemy and their weapons of choice are QE and taxes.
The EUSSR is institutionally criminal.
Meanwhile,the Chairman (ex Chairman???) of Barclays,Marcus Agius (fuckin’ pompous name if ever I heard one) seems to be screwing up Diamond Geezers’ evidence to the select committee.
They are saying that Diamond must have deliberately misled them,and that they can’t trust Barclays’ executives word.
Ho…hum…I still reckon that Fuckin’ Balls is gonna get his nuts torn off by a pair of Molegrips by the time this shit is finished.
This Balls Osborne thing is pure panto; it takes to focus off the actual banking industry to a degree. If Balls is so worried about the comments of Osborne and feels that they are detrimental to his character then why hasn’t Balls instigated legal action for deformation? Maybe too many truths would emerge in a court of law?
HMD
Vote UKIP
Dachas all round or is it Yachts in the Med?
Well!! = That’s Socialism for you – Funded by the taxes of the Many
for the Unelected Few.
Voted Labour borrow money off your mates and get a EU pension, you couldn’t make it up.
If their pensions are paid in Euros what happens when the Euro is busted?
We laugh.
and with luck every last one of them will be tried for corruption and fraud – and just possibly the tiniest touch of treason.
My theme for today being “trying to manipulate our views by chosing words and terms to increase our disgust”
Sorry guido, its failed. You can’t change my opinion of Mandleson by calling him a yatch lover.
Its changed my opinion of Yacht lovers though
Didn’t you get the message before ? Or was the traitor Heath before your time ?
Isn’t there something wrong with Judges making a decision in which they themselves benefit from?
Or does asking this question impeach their human rights?
Oh yes.
Look at the self-interest of 2 out of the 3 judges who originally heard the case against Equitable Life, who ruled that the company was unable to change guarantees/amend terms to pension contracts.
2 judges had GAR’s which were at the centre of the issue.
According to a report in “Bloomberg”, Britains finance industry spent £928 Million lobbying Government Officials in 2011.
Another crate of Bollinger please waiter !
Now then, don’t be hard on poor old Mandy
He’s as innocent as Andy Pandy
It ain’t his fault if his legs go bandy
Carting around all that E U candy
Anyone know if he also finds a use for Bananas in Pyjamas?
8% is the lowest tax-band for EU officials. Pensions for former Commissioners like Mandelson are taxed at 45%.
The case was also decided on 5 July, and not ‘yesterday’.
Makes Ken Livingstone’s efforts pale into insignificance.
Here we have the EU treating itself as some precious being, giving it’s membership special deals and exemptions, whilst spending the tax payers monies ever more recklessly.
If the senior bodies within the EU do not pay taxes, and receive every perk going, then they will have no grip on reality and will have zero understanding of the value of money. They will be even more delusional than the usual lefty, who thinks that money comes from the fabled money tree.
This decision is obscene, a slap in the face to hard working Europeans, an example, if ever one was needed, of the disconnect between the Euro-Apparatchik and their self-interest, and the ordinary man in the street.
A pox and plague on them all, referendum please, time to get out and ensure that Mandy, Kinnocks, et al, pay their taxes.
What In fail to understand is what have these failures (to be charitable) done to deserve a pension in the first place.
Why doesn’t he just fuck off to Brazil with his boyfriend?.
What a fucking arsehole!.
‘What a fucking arsehole!.’
indeed!
Gordon Brown gave him his Titles, probably for “Services rendered”
Do Lords get land these days or a boat on the Med?
Tax free pensions for the Elite few.
http://www.greychatter.blogger.com/
The ‘Brown touch’ affect on democratic government:
Brown wanted the manipulative Mandelson in government; so guided by his ‘moral compass’ he bypassed democracy and made Mandelson a peer so Brown could then make him a govt minister.
I suppose you be expecting EU Commissioners to travel in cattle class with the plebs next.
Why should they pay great dollops of tax just to keep a load of soap dodging single mums in iPhones and cheap cider?
And I suppose Ken Livingstone will be expected to pay the full whack, unless he can funnel some dosh through Silveta and pretend that it was his wife’s income to avail of her personal threshold and basic rate band?
Bank of England governor “leaned on” Barclays to make Diamond resign. So it is true that the BoE or the Treasury or government officials will lean on bankers to do their bidding then.
Have a look at my wad!
Have a feel of my wad
One would expect it of a slippery turd like Mandelslime, and the appalling troughing Kinnock herd of swine, but have NONE of the denizens in Brussels got the slightest smattering of shame at their brazen conduct?
Morally and Anally repugnant !
What about us poor old retired normal geezers. Makes me ill reading about the rough Diamond and his bonuses now its Mandy’s tax free six figure pension. Always
the rich what get the pleasure and the poor what get the blame.
Suggest all of us offer 8% to HMRC