Wednesday 11 April 2012

Shocking

In an interview this weekend, the Chancellor said he was shocked by the propensity of the super-rich to avoid tax. Having asked to see the anonymous tax returns of our top earners, he had found they were paying an average rate of 10 per cent.
George Osborne said: 'I was shocked to see that some of the very wealthiest people in the country have organised their tax affairs so that they were regularly paying virtually no income tax. And I don’t think that’s right.'
The Chancellor then went on to express shock that the Pope is Catholic and that bears do their business in the woods.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

also shocking is that the poor have organized their lives to get the most government benefits possible. imagine that... it seems that both the rich and the poor are looking out for numero uno.


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Cheezy said...

Many of them don't though.

Anonymous said...

you're right Cheezy, the ultra rich pay their tax lawyers to do it!!

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Lucy said...

Almost as shocking as you seriously thinking that the all the poor organise their lives just to get government benefits.

Anonymous said...

its pretty damn common here...

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