Fire the idiot, he clearly isn’t suitable for making decisions
this post was submitted on 09 Sep 2023
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Lord Sugar sounds like the villain in a Willy Wonka movie…
Remind me why he was made a Lord?
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.
Oh yeah? What made him switch? Was he all right before becoming a Tory?
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.
I knew he was a cunt from the telly but he sounds like a proper cunt.
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
He's a chavvy spiv.
TBF he is not the only one who does this. Monaco exists purely for tax avoidance purposes. I have known many who have worked in Saudi and the likes. They have spent money on holidays rather than come back to the UK precisely for this purpose. I think the thing that is galling people the most is the sum of money. If he drops his Lords status then he would well be doing this in the future and no one can say a word.
The USA has a system where you pay tax no matter where you are in the world. Do you think people should be allowed to avoid tax if they are not in this country?
If I remember correctly too, the "travel days" don't count. Might have changed recently, as it was a law written for steamships, not private jets.
So someone could arrive on the first Monday flight, be there for Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, fly back Thursday evening.
Technically only two days in the uk, so they could be around for the bulk of 45 weeks, and still be non-dom.
There is a lot of obfuscation going on with tax systems. This is by design so that only those with money can take advantage of it. Crickhowell showing just this.