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Reply | Tax Avoidance Schemes
at 17:42 4 Sep 2025
It started in 2017 and very few trusts get an exemption.
Whether or not it is 'useless' depends on what you think it is for. But registering virtually every trust, and keeping their info up to date, is now a massive ball ache for any lawyer or accountant. |
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Reply | Tax Avoidance Schemes
at 11:24 4 Sep 2025
There's no point in a lay person reading a QC's Opinion. They have to rely on their other advisers to tell them what it says and they also have to rely on their other advisers to be looking out for their best interests.
The game with tax schemes back then was that the QCs advised on the scheme and signed it off, with the usual caveats. The advisers closer to the client (who were also looking at big fees for selling the schemes) then reassured the client by simply saying that it had been signed off by a QC.
From the lay client's perspective, it all looked reasonable and it was their trusted advisers encouraging them. They were often misled, there's no doubt about that.
And there were some people out there who knew that they were getting involved in a racket but didn't care. Most, however, acted in good faith, but were sold pups. |
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Reply | Tax Avoidance Schemes
at 20:11 2 Sep 2025
The tax QCs who signed these things off are particularly culpable, if you ask me. Their Opinions gave the schemes the air of repectability and robustness than enabled them to be sold. |
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Reply | 3.5 years of SR
at 15:05 2 Sep 2025
3.5 years is not a long enough time period.
The rot set in as soon as Gao arrived and it's been on the same depressing trajectory, give or take, since then. |
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Reply | Totally underwhelming window yet again.
at 10:57 2 Sep 2025
When you say 'all we can do is get behind the team and manager and see what happens', do you ever wonder that moderating an online forum, the whole object of which is to mouth off about the Club, might not align with your core values? |
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Reply | Will Still
at 10:27 2 Sep 2025
You write as if we won the league that year. |
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Reply | Totally underwhelming window yet again.
at 09:50 2 Sep 2025
Yes, three proven championship players in. Can't complain about that.
Players we've never heard of coming in: we've seen a lot of that in recent years, so let's see if Johannes Spors has done any better than his predecessors in terms of picking winners (rather than the likes of Djenepo and Mara).
And we have got shot of sure deadwood, but we've also lost Ramsdale, KWP, Dibling and Fernandez.
I think we're weaker. Hope Will Still can now prove me wrong. |
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Reply | Flags
at 13:19 1 Sep 2025
First flags spotted in West Dorset.
A mix of Union Jacks and Saltires, arranged bunting-like, as if for a nice street party.
I'm guessing it must be some Scottish Unionists, far from home, wanting to add their support to the flag revolution. |
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Thread | Are we going to buy a striker?
at 13:12 1 Sep 2025
How long have we been waiting now for Saints to buy a decent striker?
Are we really going to finish another transfer window with the same flawed strikers leading the line?
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Reply | Watford Matchday Thread
at 19:04 30 Aug 2025
Recruitment is on Johannes Spors.
We were told to be encouraged by his arrival so I’m expecting something impressive from him.
Main problem is that we were so far behind in terms of our squad being weakened over the last few years, that we need more than a couple of good Championship players - and particularly as we’ve just sold our two best players.
Come on Spors, the window hasn’t shut yet. I agree with Dirk, decent keeper, centre back and striker still needed. |
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Reply | Flags
at 08:33 30 Aug 2025
Fair enough. We’ll try our best to survive without your rapier-like insights. |
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Reply | Flags
at 07:00 30 Aug 2025
What ‘speaks volumes’ is the way you disingenuously push the idea that this is all an issue of child protection, and pour scorn on anyone who, rightly, raises the issues of tribalism, nationalism and, yes, racism that are so very obviously also involved.
To say that talking about Farage is ‘off on a tangent’ and ‘irrelevant to the topic on hand and a very strange thing to bring up as it is totally unrelated’ is one of either the dumbest or most insincere things ever written on this forum. |
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Reply | Flags
at 15:37 29 Aug 2025
You responded to a thread about Palestinian flags by mentioning child rape.
Are you now denying that? |
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Reply | Flags
at 14:50 29 Aug 2025
Because you responded to a thread about Palestinian flags by mentioning child rape.
Is that clear enough for you?
But now you say, you meant nothing about Palestinian flags, so again what were you trying to say? |
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Reply | Flags
at 14:43 29 Aug 2025
That's what you seemed to be saying.
What were you trying to say?
Do you know? |
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Reply | Flags
at 14:13 29 Aug 2025
I've still got no idea what you were trying to say.
I don't think you know. |
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Reply | Flags
at 14:07 29 Aug 2025
You replied to posts about Palestinian flags, and to the English flags being in response to them, by somehow saying that the English flags were a protest against child exploitation.
It seemed extremely confused. Hence my 'what are you saying?'
I still don't know what you were trying to say and why you chose to say it in relation to comments about Palestinian flags ???
You seem very upset by my interpretation so why don't you just explain what your jumbled thinking was. |
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Reply | Flags
at 13:30 29 Aug 2025
I answered your question at 12.03 on Aug28 on this thread.
Maybe you didn't like my answer. Not my problem.
But it was a direct answer to your question, so please now stop your immature messing about this. |
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