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Lord Sugar tried to avoid £186m tax payment as a non-UK resident (www.thetimes.co.uk)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Paywall, but The Times helped the investigation, so not unreasonable.

Gist is: Sugar tried to claim he was non-dom, to save £186m in tax. However, members of HoL are officially classed as residents (because Jesus, imagine someone deciding on the laws of the country while not even officially living there)

Additionally, he's quoted in the article saying that if he was aware, he would have stepped down...So his HoL membership is now being reviewed on the grounds that he was ready to drop his duties the moment it was convenient to him.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

He was one of the largest donors to the Labour Party, who made him a Lord. A few years later he switched sides to the Conservatives, and had been acting like the archetypal Tory gobshite ever since.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Oh yeah? What made him switch? Was he all right before becoming a Tory?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Based on how he's been acting since he became a lord, i would guess that his donations to Labour were simply to secure him the life peerage that Labour duly gave him in 2009, and since then we're seeing his true colours, including reposting a photoshopped photo of Corbyn with Hitler, and mocking the Senegal football team, saying they looked like street-side hawkers. Í think he occasionally bleats some sexist crap on xwitter as well.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

I knew he was a cunt from the telly but he sounds like a proper cunt.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Labour back then were all into their 'Third Way' ideology (read 'neoliberalism with a left-wing mask') so it's not all unlikely he barely shifted his views at all