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Is that Tony Callamita, Ferrari-driving, NFT-investing, dubious advisor-recruiting, former CEO of the shitshow that was Love Hemp?In a strange perverse twist this has just been posted tonight.
By any chance?
Is that Tony Callamita, Ferrari-driving, NFT-investing, dubious advisor-recruiting, former CEO of the shitshow that was Love Hemp?In a strange perverse twist this has just been posted tonight.
Is that Tony Callamita, Ferrari-driving, NFT-investing, dubious advisor-recruiting, former CEO of the shitshow that was Love Hemp?
By any chance?
Harold Wilson once said the pound in your pocket is yours ..the rest is mineFor me and the 221 others that got sucked into the chaos of carbon credits we've been using a firm of solicitors on a no win no fee basis and they have been good but at a cost fees and vat for me in December £31,500.
The advisor that got me into this mess was basically just a mortgage advisor who could do the impossible for me when I was playing with buy to let properties but he shouldn't have gone anywhere near my pension and obviously would have got a nice brown envelope and hasn't been charged with anything and still giving mortgage advice in Weston super Mare.
We need the Rant thread back.
Just be careful and trust no one is my advice now.
For many years being self employed in the UK and people wanting to pay in cash all the ones that went in my pocket were mine I only ever banked cheques.Harold Wilson once said the pound in your pocket is yours ..the rest is mine
Me too Phil , I would always make sure 1 or 2 jobs each month were cash ,especially in the days when Moben or MFI would pay within 90 days ................thats how I justified in my mind ......even in the eighties it wasnt unusual for me to be £20k-£30k overdrawn each month ..............running a dozen or so installation teams it soon built upFor many years being self employed in the UK and people wanting to pay in cash all the ones that went in my pocket were mine I only ever banked cheques.
My cash all went back into the local economy though.
That is the one.....except not former CEO. Still very much alive, well and still the current CEO and ED on the BOD.Is that Tony Callamita, Ferrari-driving, NFT-investing, dubious advisor-recruiting, former CEO of the shitshow that was Love Hemp?
By any chance?
For many years being self employed in the UK and people wanting to pay in cash all the ones that went in my pocket were mine I only ever banked cheques.
My cash all went back into the local economy though.
Me too Phil , I would always make sure 1 or 2 jobs each month were cash ,especially in the days when Moben or MFI would pay within 90 days ................thats how I justified in my mind ......even in the eighties it wasnt unusual for me to be £20k-£30k overdrawn each month ..............running a dozen or so installation teams it soon built up
Totally agree phil, with successive governments destroying what were to be our pensions those with foresight hedged in our own little ways , this is mine for when the time comesFor me and the 221 others that got sucked into the chaos of carbon credits we've been using a firm of solicitors on a no win no fee basis and they have been good but at a cost fees and vat for me in December £31,500.
The advisor that got me into this mess was basically just a mortgage advisor who could do the impossible for me when I was playing with buy to let properties but he shouldn't have gone anywhere near my pension and obviously would have got a nice brown envelope and hasn't been charged with anything and still giving mortgage advice in Weston super Mare.
We need the Rant thread back.
Just be careful and trust no one is my advice now.
Sorry to hear that Phil. As you say trust nobody and you won't be far wrong most of the time.For me and the 221 others that got sucked into the chaos of carbon credits we've been using a firm of solicitors on a no win no fee basis and they have been good but at a cost fees and vat for me in December £31,500.
The advisor that got me into this mess was basically just a mortgage advisor who could do the impossible for me when I was playing with buy to let properties but he shouldn't have gone anywhere near my pension and obviously would have got a nice brown envelope and hasn't been charged with anything and still giving mortgage advice in Weston super Mare.
We need the Rant thread back.
Just be careful and trust no one is my advice now.
You chose to go Paye .................as they say you pay yer money and makes your choice .............its a dog eat dog world out there and about looking after number one .......then you can think about looking after numbers two and threeOh, so that's why my PAYE taxes were so high. Thanks, guys.
Driving a Maserati your complaint is falling on deaf ears mateOh, so that's why my PAYE taxes were so high. Thanks, guys.
LOL....I think there is a long long history of corruption and misspent tax payers money much higher up the food chain than anyone here being responsible.Oh, so that's why my PAYE taxes were so high. Thanks, guys.
Head shaking ..... Yeah four legs good , two legs badI continue to be amazed about so many people who are ‘out and proud’ about dodging taxes. Often justifying this by saying ‘someone else’ should pay more, or ‘someone’ is getting stuff they don’t deserve, or ‘tax money is wasted’, or ‘I’ve paid my share’.
Yet in a very real and practical way this means that someone else does pay more, and someone isn’t getting stuff they do deserve. The bottom line is that for every £1 that someone doesn’t pay, either someone else picks up the slack, or public funding is reduced. I don’t see how you can be proud of not paying tax without also accepting some responsibility for unfixed potholes or NHS waiting lists. Yes, there is waste and corruption, but that is an irrelevant smokescreen for someone who just wants to justify trousering the cash.
And if you want to talk morality, very often these same decent honest members of society, who seek to justify their approach, are incensed if an MP puts a packet of biscuits on expenses, and would go apeshit if someone swiped a fiver out of their pocket.
"Taxes are the price we pay for a civilized society."
I guess there are vast differences between the various people caught in this plight. You have some that I suspect do it through necessity, some who do it by choice and are 'honest' about it, then the rest. There can be and often are great chasms between each.I continue to be amazed about so many people who are ‘out and proud’ about dodging taxes. Often justifying this by saying ‘someone else’ should pay more, or ‘someone’ is getting stuff they don’t deserve, or ‘tax money is wasted’, or ‘I’ve paid my share’.
Yet in a very real and practical way this means that someone else does pay more, and someone isn’t getting stuff they do deserve. The bottom line is that for every £1 that someone doesn’t pay, either someone else picks up the slack, or public funding is reduced. I don’t see how you can be proud of not paying tax without also accepting some responsibility for unfixed potholes or NHS waiting lists. Yes, there is waste and corruption, but that is an irrelevant smokescreen for someone who just wants to justify trousering the cash.
And if you want to talk morality, very often these same decent honest members of society, who seek to justify their approach, are incensed if an MP puts a packet of biscuits on expenses, and would go apeshit if someone swiped a fiver out of their pocket.
"Taxes are the price we pay for a civilized society."
I continue to be amazed about so many people who are ‘out and proud’ about dodging taxes. Often justifying this by saying ‘someone else’ should pay more, or ‘someone’ is getting stuff they don’t deserve, or ‘tax money is wasted’, or ‘I’ve paid my share’.
Yet in a very real and practical way this means that someone else does pay more, and someone isn’t getting stuff they do deserve. The bottom line is that for every £1 that someone doesn’t pay, either someone else picks up the slack, or public funding is reduced. I don’t see how you can be proud of not paying tax without also accepting some responsibility for unfixed potholes or NHS waiting lists. Yes, there is waste and corruption, but that is an irrelevant smokescreen for someone who just wants to justify trousering the cash.
And if you want to talk morality, very often these same decent honest members of society, who seek to justify their approach, are incensed if an MP puts a packet of biscuits on expenses, and would go apeshit if someone swiped a fiver out of their pocket.
"Taxes are the price we pay for a civilized society."
I continue to be amazed about so many people who are ‘out and proud’ about dodging taxes. Often justifying this by saying ‘someone else’ should pay more, or ‘someone’ is getting stuff they don’t deserve, or ‘tax money is wasted’, or ‘I’ve paid my share’.
Yet in a very real and practical way this means that someone else does pay more, and someone isn’t getting stuff they do deserve. The bottom line is that for every £1 that someone doesn’t pay, either someone else picks up the slack, or public funding is reduced. I don’t see how you can be proud of not paying tax without also accepting some responsibility for unfixed potholes or NHS waiting lists. Yes, there is waste and corruption, but that is an irrelevant smokescreen for someone who just wants to justify trousering the cash.
And if you want to talk morality, very often these same decent honest members of society, who seek to justify their approach, are incensed if an MP puts a packet of biscuits on expenses, and would go apeshit if someone swiped a fiver out of their pocket.
"Taxes are the price we pay for a civilized society."
When you know this happens at the very top levels of society you shouldn't really be amazed. There is nothing amazing about it really. It has been happening through civilisation for hundred of years. Corruption is nothing new or anything to be amazed about.I continue to be amazed about so many people who are ‘out and proud’ about dodging taxes. Often justifying this by saying ‘someone else’ should pay more, or ‘someone’ is getting stuff they don’t deserve, or ‘tax money is wasted’, or ‘I’ve paid my share’.
Yet in a very real and practical way this means that someone else does pay more, and someone isn’t getting stuff they do deserve. The bottom line is that for every £1 that someone doesn’t pay, either someone else picks up the slack, or public funding is reduced. I don’t see how you can be proud of not paying tax without also accepting some responsibility for unfixed potholes or NHS waiting lists. Yes, there is waste and corruption, but that is an irrelevant smokescreen for someone who just wants to justify trousering the cash.
And if you want to talk morality, very often these same decent honest members of society, who seek to justify their approach, are incensed if an MP puts a packet of biscuits on expenses, and would go apeshit if someone swiped a fiver out of their pocket.
"Taxes are the price we pay for a civilized society."