This year, while climbing a coconut nut tree age old rocker, Keith Richards, failing to cling on with as much vigour as he does to his musical career, and banged his coconut hard, resulting in brain surgery…
This has resulted in the stones changing how their affairs are managed, in light of their newly realised mortality… They have moved their £240M into trust funds, in the Netherlands, and under Dutch law, had to publish the documents to show it… so now we know, the Stone, with all their financial operations in the Netherlands have only paid 1.6% tax over the last 35 years… and may now pay less… How very noble and English. The band started banking in Holland in 1972 because, reportedly they did not trust British finance houses, and now can not make Britain their home. Fine, well in that case we’ll have back all the Union Jack pants, shirt and flags you fuckers parade about in shall, not least because things that skin tight on drug addled skeletal forms such as yourselves… So the stones paid just £3.6M in tax… but, you wonder, how much did they pay to their “Financial Director” Jan Favie? As yet I can find no answer
It also has emerged that universal campaigner, spokesperson for the downtrodden and conscience of the world, Bono, and his band of increasingly less and less inspiring (though once equally innovative) musical cohorts now also banks in the Netherlands, under the keen watchful eye of Mr. Favie, and thusly avoid Irelands hirer tax bracket…
One day, maybe we can all be as morally superior as Bono, oh and Well on Live 8, problem solved… pat on the back, go home, job well done…
What I don’t get is, if you have millions and millions, whether you try to act as moral model for the rest of us or not, you should be damn well proud to pay tax to the country of your birth. And that country should be embarrassed if you run of and hide your money elsewhere, and then parade in skin tight version of it flag to promote yourselves…
These hypocrites, in the case Bono, should have these dealing run across the bottom of the screen when ever they lecture us, and every copy of “It’s a beautiful day” should be promptly and summerarily shot into the sun “O.K., I’m hijacking for my own goals here, but hey what are they going to do, criticise my hypocrisy?”
Money corrupts, the wealthiest in our nation vote more right wing, I’ve seen in people as their careers progress they become more concerned about the “miss-use” of their precious tax money, while most people I know on the insulting 35 quid a week dole, will not wait for change from the Big issue sales man…
And so I come to my reactionary and potentially oppressive “out-there idea for the week. We have a minimum wage, how about a maximum?
Say £100,000?
It can be offset against the future, so if you earn £12M for a couple of years the Inland Revenue will pay you £100,000 for up to 15 years, and just to be nice, you can have that £100,000 tax free, cos we’ll keep the other 10 Mill, thanks…
Of course such a system would never work, and that is a pity. But the ability of our richest to starkly doge tax, cos they can afford to, is an obscene insult to those of us who earn fuck all and pay our 22%.
The high earners moan about dole claimers, druggies etc, the wastes of their hard earned taxes that the Daily Express tells them all about day in day out…
But which really is worse, the less fortunate being given the helping hand that while pathetic, not only keeps them alive but stops them turning to more desperate measures… or the privileged wealthy exercising the “take the money and run” attitude that our supposed role models live by?
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