Tax man got Nick Nick

[DimPrawn]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/5153936.stm

Comedian Jim Davidson has been declared bankrupt after failing to keep up payments on a £1.4m tax bill.

The 52-year-old comic said he had been struggling to meet payments of about £400,000 a year, but that HM Revenue & Customs refused to negotiate.

Davidson, who lives in Dubai, said he wanted to finish paying off the bill, now down to about £700,000, but had been "forced into this position".

And you thought IR35 was bad.....

[Fleetwood]

He said he had been left unable to pay the £1.4m bill about four years ago owing to the expense of the earlier divorce from his fourth wife, Tracy Hilton.

Bllody hell, once was enough for me.

[Mailman]

Stuped fecker should have paid off all his debts BEFORE getting divorced.

Then again, if you have to share your wealth with an ex wife why cant you share the debt?

Mailman

[threaded]

Stuped fecker should have paid off all his debts BEFORE getting divorced.

Then again, if you have to share your wealth with an ex wife why cant you share the debt?

Mailman

To anyone with a brain paying off all the debts before splitting the assets is quite an obvious thing to do. You see, if he'd paid the tax man, and then paid the wife, the lawyers wouldn't be able to make him bankrupt. Hence the lawyer income would be reduced. Yet, oh dear, you miss the point of the UK divorce laws. Things working this way means that lawyers get more work, and hence more money.

HTH

[cojak]

Wot's with the wontons, Tonto?

[threaded]

Wot's with the wontons, Tonto?

Ah, you missed the thread. I made myself some sausage rolls, using my own pigs, milk, flour etc. etc. and thought them so wonderful I changed my avatar.