Chancellor Needs Help

[gramps85]

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/tax/income/rachel-reeves-claimed-1225-expenses-help-tax-returns/

It seems that the Chancellor needed to employ an accountant to help her complete her tax return. Can we trust somebody who needs this help, to manage the countries finances?

[lolasmam]

She is NOT an employee.

[naomi24]

She doesn't generate her own wealth.  She is paid by the public purse.

[nicebloke1]

Good on her to keep up to date with her tax afairs. Wow! £1225 thats an eye watering amount :0) I can't remember ever seeing all this fuss being made in 2023 by ABs when Nadhim Zahawi got clobbered by the taxman with a penalty running into millions, for not keeping his accounts up to date regarding his offshore company. Strange that? :0)

[Peter Pedant]

still fighting over whether she is an employee ( yawn - this must be  AB and no one has gone to bed)

who said she paid tax - this is about completing her tax return...

I find the two go together me. It might just be me

[Peter Pedant]

She doesn't generate her own wealth.  She is paid by the public purse.

well Shri - Cherie Blair, silly! managed to amass £50m. Her husband was PM remember

where there is a till there is a loll - that is Labour for you ( o god I dont have to explain that, do I)

[Peter Pedant]

tolasman - you are quite right of course

some people just refuse to be told  - you are lucky you and your works have not been splatted.

[nicebloke1]

She's been working hard on the countries finances. Todays inflation down to 1.7% the lowest in 3 years. :0)))

[curlyfries81]

09:03 You are the Maestro when it comes to garbled rubbish. 

[webbo3]

nicebloke1@11:20

\\She's been working hard on the countries finances. Todays inflation down to 1.7% the lowest in 3 years. :0)))//

So it was lower under the tories.

[nicebloke1]

ABs really now scrapping the barrel, you will end up with no finger nails. <:•)

[gulliver1]

Nicebloke  11.10 Sunak and wife never had to pay an accountant for their tax returns because they never paid any.

[nicebloke1]

^^ Don't think they've ever knew what they even do.

[gramps85]

The point I was trying to make is if over the last few years the Chancellor has been unable to understand how a self assessment tax form is completed, how on earth can she consider herself competent enough to manage the UK's finances. And if she does need to employ a tax consultant why should tax payers bear the cost of what shoule be a private arrangement.

It is also worth reading the comments of an independent tax advisor 

However, David Whiscombe, an independent tax consultant, said: “I have great difficulty in seeing how preparation of a self-assessment tax return would not count as ‘personal accountancy or tax advice’. It should be no more difficult for an MP to file a tax return than for any other employee or office-holder.”

Mike Warburton, former tax director at accountancy firm Grant Thornton, added: “It is very important that these expense claims are carefully scrutinised.”

 

 

 

 

[nicebloke1]

I shoul really get BA @11.10. :•)

[gramps85]

nicebloke. I am not your best friend Gulliver, so sorry but you are at the bottome of the list for BA.

[nicebloke1]

11.43 like i said AB cons are scrapping the barrel, so are the perthetic independent tax advisors. Sad case of sour grapes. :•)

[nicebloke1]

11.47. A no comment about my post @ 11.10 then?

[davebro3]

//A no comment about my post @ 11.10 then?//

So Zahawi (or his company) paid a staggering amount - contrary to gully's repeated & absurd assertions that the conservatives paid no tax.😂

[gramps85]

nicebloke 11.52.  It's not very nice when your questions are not answered is it?  If my memories serve me right I am still waiting for replies to questions I posed on 2 previous postings by both yourself and your partner in crime, Gulliver.