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MPs expenses again, FFS they don't get it!

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    MPs expenses again, FFS they don't get it!

    Darling (among others) uses Commons expenses to pay for accountant for personal SA return. Then he justifies it by saying that he did it to ensure that he paid the correct amount of tax.

    Yes Alistair, that is indeed why we get an accountant to do our SA return. The problem is that it is a personal expense, but you paid for it with company money. Do you not understand the difference?

    #2
    Um, my personal tax return and corp tax are all included in one fee that my accountant charges me.

    How is this any different from what the MPs have done?

    I'm not defending the other expense claims, however if they need an accountant to deal with the complicated issues of tax, which arise from being an MP. Then this is actually a fair claim.

    What's not fair is when the advice given by the accountant is how to flip your house etc.
    Originally posted by cailin maith
    Hang on - there is actually a place called Cheddar??

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      #3
      Originally posted by FSM with Cheddar View Post
      ...however if they need an accountant to deal with the complicated issues of tax, which arise from being an MP. Then this is actually a fair claim....
      Precisely.

      The fact that we can't claim it is immaterial. MPs are allowed to claim all sorts of things we are not.
      Down with racism. Long live miscegenation!

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        #4
        Originally posted by FSM with Cheddar View Post
        Um, my personal tax return and corp tax are all included in one fee that my accountant charges me.

        How is this any different from what the MPs have done?
        It isn't, you're breaking the law too if you pay for accountancy service for your personal tax return out of company money.

        One difference is that the Commons' "company money" is mine and yours, so we do have a say in its being abused. But that fact that a personal expense is paid with untaxed money, so is therefore a Benefit In Kind, is the same.

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          #5
          Originally posted by FSM with Cheddar View Post
          What's not fair is when the advice given by the accountant is how to flip your house etc.
          I dont understand why that is not fair. It's the accountants job to tell you what is possible within the law. How the rules work.
          It's up to you whether it is right and proper to follow the advice.



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            #6
            Originally posted by expat View Post
            It isn't, you're breaking the law too if you pay for accountancy service for your personal tax return out of company money.

            One difference is that the Commons' "company money" is mine and yours, so we do have a say in its being abused. But that fact that a personal expense is paid with untaxed money, so is therefore a Benefit In Kind, is the same.
            Get over it. Who cares. Is this all you've got to worry about? My accountanct changes about £50 to fill in a tax return. Whoopee do.

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              #7
              Originally posted by DimPrawn View Post
              Get over it. Who cares. Is this all you've got to worry about? My accountanct changes about £50 to fill in a tax return. Whoopee do.
              I look forward to your telling that to Hector next time you try to skip tax on a personal expense.

              What you have just said is that it's OK to steal, if it's not much.

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                #8
                Originally posted by DimPrawn View Post
                Get over it. Who cares. Is this all you've got to worry about? My accountanct changes about £50 to fill in a tax return. Whoopee do.
                Whoopty doo
                Knock first as I might be balancing my chakras.

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                  #9
                  Originally posted by FSM with Cheddar View Post
                  I'm not defending the other expense claims, however if they need an accountant to deal with the complicated issues of tax, which arise from being an MP. Then this is actually a fair claim.
                  No it isn't. It is a personal expense.

                  Are you an MP?

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