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Grendel

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  • Sep 4, 2025
  • #55,371
SBAndy said:
Or, quite simply, the truth in a practical sense. She didn’t own another property. Her child’s trust did. Policitian not being across the minutiae of tax policy isn’t a fun story tho.
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She agreed with the council in Hove to pay council tax as a second property
 
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Grendel

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  • Sep 4, 2025
  • #55,372
shmmeee said:
Again Zahawi avoided paying tax on tens of millions over years by setting up off shore companies and threatening anyone who investigated until the HMRC caught up with him. Rayner took advice on a non-standard living situation paid what she was told and when told that was wrong paid some more. Only a simpleton or someone not arguing in good faith would pretend they’re the same.

You lot on the right always try this because you think secretly the left wants less taxes as well and are being hypocrites so you’ll twist anything to fit that narrative but any honest reading just doesn’t add up like that here. Rayner has not tried to avoid tax on anything like the scale the average Tory did. You just don’t like her.
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So from not avoiding tax at all it’s now “not tried to avoid tax anything like the average Tory did”

Cool defence that
 
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CovValleyBoy

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  • Sep 4, 2025
  • #55,373
Wouldn't it of been a lovely breath of fresh air if Dep PM Raynor had paid £70K despite only a £30K liability & was instead due a £40K rebate.

Now that would of been news !
 
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SBAndy

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  • Sep 4, 2025
  • #55,374
Grendel said:
She agreed with the council in Hove to pay council tax as a second property
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Can pay council tax on 2 properties despite only owning one as far as I’m aware.

I should just set out that I’m not condoning it but I’m not of the belief, as MMM seems to be, that this is some mad aggressive tax planning. Just think it’s a bit of a fuck-up.
 
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Grendel

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  • Sep 4, 2025
  • #55,375
SBAndy said:
Can pay council tax on 2 properties despite only owning one as far as I’m aware.

I should just set out that I’m not condoning it but I’m not of the belief, as MMM seems to be, that this is some mad aggressive tax planning. Just think it’s a bit of a fuck-up.
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Why would anyone put a house in a discretionary trust unless it was to benefit from a tax avoidance?
 
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PVA

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  • Sep 4, 2025
  • #55,376
SBAndy said:
Can pay council tax on 2 properties despite only owning one as far as I’m aware.

I should just set out that I’m not condoning it but I’m not of the belief, as MMM seems to be, that this is some mad aggressive tax planning. Just think it’s a bit of a fuck-up.
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Yeah, she probably has (had!) designs on being PM. I don't think she is stupid enough to risk it all over some stamp duty.

She knows full well what the press are like. She knows full well the things she's said about Tory ministers resigning over various issues. She would know that any avoidance of tax, intentional or not, would kill her career.

I think it was a genuine error, that obviously looks worse given her position and will cost her her job.
 
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PVA

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  • Sep 4, 2025
  • #55,377
Grendel said:
Why would anyone put a house in a discretionary trust unless it was to benefit from a tax avoidance?
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Loads of reasons, particularly given their son is disabled.

Mostly about protecting him financially and giving him some security.
 
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SIR ERNIE

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  • Sep 4, 2025
  • #55,378
shmmeee said:
Do you understand literally anything about how this country works or is it all just a jumble of US politics tweets in there?
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Oooo you're really hurting aren't you.
 
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StrettoBoy

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  • Sep 4, 2025
  • #55,379
SBAndy said:
Or, quite simply, the truth in a practical sense. She didn’t own another property. Her child’s trust did. Policitian not being across the minutiae of tax policy isn’t a fun story tho.
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Shoosmiths, who set up the trust, are a large and very reputable law firm. I would be astonished if they didn't advise AR, as settlor, that she was deemed to have retained an interest in the property.
 

mmttww

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  • Sep 4, 2025
  • #55,380

Former Conservative minister Nadine Dorries defects to Reform UK

The ex-MP told the Daily Mail the Tory Party was dead and its members now "need to think the unthinkable".
www.bbc.co.uk

some good LOLs reading that, vacuous knobhead.
 
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StrettoBoy

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  • Sep 4, 2025
  • #55,381
Grendel said:
She agreed with the council in Hove to pay council tax as a second property
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Claiming, for council tax purposes, that the Manchester property was her main home and for SDLT purposes that it was Hove doesn't pass the sniff test, especially as it is likely to be the grace and favour apartment in London.

"Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive".
 

mmttww

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  • Sep 4, 2025
  • #55,382

Starmer refuses to say if he will sack Rayner if she broke rules

The PM's standards adviser is investigating if Rayner breached the ministerial code after underpaying stamp duty.
www.bbc.co.uk

and listening to this live was a living facepalm. All he had to say was 'I'll listen to what the ethics fella says and make a decision', he just waffled for five mins.
 

Grendel

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  • Sep 4, 2025
  • #55,383
PVA said:
Loads of reasons, particularly given their son is disabled.

Mostly about protecting him financially and giving him some security.
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She extracted £165k from it to buy the second home. Surely that home offers security?

She has 3 children
 
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Captain Dart

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  • Sep 4, 2025
  • #55,384
PVA said:
Yeah, she probably has (had!) designs on being PM. I don't think she is stupid enough to risk it all over some stamp duty.
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Well.
 

Mucca Mad Boys

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  • Sep 4, 2025
  • #55,385
SBAndy said:
Or, quite simply, the truth in a practical sense. She didn’t own another property. Her child’s trust did. Policitian not being across the minutiae of tax policy isn’t a fun story tho.
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The guidance is on HMRC. If your child owns a property, for stamp duty purposes you are the owner of it. Rayner was

She knew what she was doing, she sold her share in a property preemptively to claim she only owned one property.

Let’s be honest, if it was a Tory politician, we’d all be damning and assume they knew what they were doing. If anything, it’s classist/sexist to assume Rayner didn’t actually know what she was doing.

She’s a politician in a privileged position, she knew what she was doing because she has the best legal advice on hand.
 
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SBAndy

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  • Sep 4, 2025
  • #55,386
Grendel said:
She extracted £165k from it to buy the second home. Surely that home offers security?

She has 3 children
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If you take her at face value, the Manchester home has been modified to cater for his disability. Hence the reason they have this nesting arrangement and the perceived need to ensure he has right to remain should anything happen to either/both of them.

Why the other property needs to be in Brighton I have no idea. But that’s a separate story.
 

Mucca Mad Boys

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  • Sep 4, 2025
  • #55,387
StrettoBoy said:
I told my wife the other day what I thought had happened and it is looking increasingly likely that I was correct.

I reckon the Licensed Conveyancers will have completed the SDLT return and in doing so will have asked AR if she owned any other properties and she told them that she didn't. That could have been a deliberate attempt to evade tax, which is fraud, or a stupid error.
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I think she misled her solicitors personally. That’s my ‘gut feeling’.

In fairness, there are exemptions out there for guardians of disabled children so there may have been a reason to believe an exemption could be claimed. However, there’s no evidence right now where she’s declared this to authorities/legal counsel.

Again, the UK has be of the most complicated tax systems and Rayner is one of many voices looking to further complicate this tax code. Therefore, there’s a certain irony to that.
 
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Grendel

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  • Sep 4, 2025
  • #55,388
SBAndy said:
If you take her at face value, the Manchester home has been modified to cater for his disability. Hence the reason they have this nesting arrangement and the perceived need to ensure he has right to remain should anything happen to either/both of them.

Why the other property needs to be in Brighton I have no idea. But that’s a separate story.
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Then surely gift it rather than a trust set up for the purpose of allowing both parties to freely withdraw income?
 
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Grendel

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  • Sep 4, 2025
  • #55,389
It’s the right wing press gunning for her!

‘It’s a disgrace’: Rayner’s constituents call for her resignation after stamp duty row

In Ashton-under-Lyne there is little sympathy for the deputy prime minister’s tax troubles
www.theguardian.com
 
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Mucca Mad Boys

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  • Sep 4, 2025
  • #55,390
Grendel said:
It’s the right wing press gunning for her!

‘It’s a disgrace’: Rayner’s constituents call for her resignation after stamp duty row

In Ashton-under-Lyne there is little sympathy for the deputy prime minister’s tax troubles
www.theguardian.com
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“Right wing conspiracy”

Judging by the voting habits of Hove, I doubt the graffiti artists of Rayner’s home are right wingers. They could be, but an equal chance they’re ‘eco-populist’ Green voters who disdain tax evaders.
 
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PVA

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  • Sep 4, 2025
  • #55,391
Grendel said:
She extracted £165k from it to buy the second home. Surely that home offers security?

She has 3 children
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Discretionary trusts are not tax efficient and are not used to save tax.

The whole point of them is security and protection for family.
 
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Gynnsthetonic

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  • Sep 4, 2025
  • #55,392
Brighton Sky Blue said:
Examples please.
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Why do you insist on examples all the time, they're all over the news.
 
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Gynnsthetonic

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  • Sep 4, 2025
  • #55,393
shmmeee said:
And she is paying the right amount of tax. She got advice. Paid the amount she was told. Got told the advice was wrong. Got new advice. Paid the new amount.

At no point has she tried to avoid tax. Read the statement and tell me at what point exactly you think she intentionally avoided tax.

As I said anyone who has had kids through divorce knows the question of “what’s your primary address” isn’t simple and consistent especially with a nesting arrangement like she had.
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Delusional
 
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Gynnsthetonic

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  • Sep 4, 2025
  • #55,394

Angela Rayner's conveyancers deny giving tax advice – report

In a revelation that could well sink the Housing Secretary over the Stamp Duty row, the conveyancing firm has contradicted Angela Rayner's claims that they gave her tax advice.
share.google
 

Grendel

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  • Sep 4, 2025
  • #55,395
PVA said:
Discretionary trusts are not tax efficient and are not used to save tax.

The whole point of them is security and protection for family.
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Er they are actually for that. Pensions are placed in such trusts so IHT isn’t paid on death when distributed to families.

How does it protect the family? From what?
 

Sick Boy

Super Moderator
  • Sep 5, 2025
  • #55,396
Mucca Mad Boys said:
“Right wing conspiracy”

Judging by the voting habits of Hove, I doubt the graffiti artists of Rayner’s home are right wingers. They could be, but an equal chance they’re ‘eco-populist’ Green voters who disdain tax evaders.
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Hove is firmly Labour.
 
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CovValleyBoy

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  • Sep 5, 2025
  • #55,397
mmttww said:

Starmer refuses to say if he will sack Rayner if she broke rules

The PM's standards adviser is investigating if Rayner breached the ministerial code after underpaying stamp duty.
www.bbc.co.uk

and listening to this live was a living facepalm. All he had to say was 'I'll listen to what the ethics fella says and make a decision', he just waffled for five mins.
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I don't think any of Labour's "big" 3 can string a sentence together without a script.
 

shmmeee

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  • Sep 5, 2025
  • #55,398
Cool. Now we’ve got everyone’s opinion on paying the wrong amount of stamp duty. A this is very clear fraud not a disabled kid in sight. I assume the righties will be demanding Farage resigns.

 
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shmmeee

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  • Sep 5, 2025
  • #55,399
Mucca Mad Boys said:
“Right wing conspiracy”

Judging by the voting habits of Hove, I doubt the graffiti artists of Rayner’s home are right wingers. They could be, but an equal chance they’re ‘eco-populist’ Green voters who disdain tax evaders.
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Yes Macca there are no right wingers in Hove. Fucks sake man do you even listen to the shit you come out with?
 
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PVA

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  • Sep 5, 2025
  • #55,400
shmmeee said:
Cool. Now we’ve got everyone’s opinion on paying the wrong amount of stamp duty. A this is very clear fraud not a disabled kid in sight. I assume the righties will be demanding Farage resigns.

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Oh this is just wonderful.

Come on then lads, let's see your outrage.

Wonder if this will be front page news on the Telegraph/Mail for the next week?
 

Sick Boy

Super Moderator
  • Sep 5, 2025
  • #55,401
shmmeee said:


Yes Macca there are no right wingers in Hove. Fucks sake man do you even listen to the shit you come out with?
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I'm pretty sure it was Conservative in 2010.
 

Brighton Sky Blue

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  • Sep 5, 2025
  • #55,402
Gynnsthetonic said:
Why do you insist on examples all the time, they're all over the news.
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Because otherwise people will just make stuff up.
 

shmmeee

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  • Sep 5, 2025
  • #55,403
Sick Boy said:
I'm pretty sure it was Conservative in 2010.
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Just the idea that someone winning an election on a 40% turnout or whatever means no one who disagrees with them exists in the constituency is some real “I only engage with the world through twitter arguments” stuff
 
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shmmeee

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  • Sep 5, 2025
  • #55,404
PVA said:
Oh this is just wonderful.

Come on then lads, let's see your outrage.

Wonder if this will be front page news on the Telegraph/Mail for the next week?
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They don’t care about the principle. They spent 14 years voting for the biggest tax dodgers around. They just hate seeing a working class woman do well. Private school boys only pls.
 
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PVA

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  • Sep 5, 2025
  • #55,405
shmmeee said:
They don’t care about the principle. They spent 14 years voting for the biggest tax dodgers around. They just hate seeing a working class woman do well. Private school boys only pls.
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Yeah definitely.

The right: 'Working class people should just work harder and they too can have nice things'

Also the right: 'How can this working class woman afford two houses? '
 
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