The Chancellor’s secret libel letters

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  1. > Our client […] does not want to get involved in a debate about semantics and historical tax matters when he has an important job to do. Should there be any serious questions to be asked about our client’s taxes, HMRC will no doubt ask them

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  2. You have to ask yourself whenever you receive something “without prejudice” from a lawyer, why they are sending it without prejudice? In this case it really seems like the lawyer knows their client is being a dick and his hoping to get it off their desk without having to do any substantive work on it which will drag them (and their firm’s) reputation down with it.

  3. You’d think that the *first* thing that these expensive laywers would do would be to advise their clients on a little thing known as the Streisand effect….

  4. We new the man couldn’t be trusted when he blackmailed Boris for the job ( he told him he wanted the job or he would also resign publicly) then within 24 hours turned around and called for Boris to leave and immediately started campaigning for his job.

    The man embodies everything today’s Tory party is.

    What a bellend.

  5. It would appear that he has undertaken a rather opaque tax evasion (not avoidance/ evasion… avoiding tax is legal… evading is illegal) but as with these schemes they usually find a tax accountant willing to convince everyone one involved that it is fine and dandy.

    It’s rare for HMRC to investigate because it’s easy to catch small fish and the big ones usually wriggle off the hook.

    But not too worry, soon to be New PM Truss will replace him with Andrea Leadsom.

  6. They purport to love this country, to want the best for it, to want to make it world-leading. But they will not pay a *penny* in their fair share of taxes.

    Fuck this shaved testicle with glasses.

  7. The best case is that this was tax avoidance if he didn’t do it deliberately just to avoid tax in which case its evasion…because it’s only evasion if you are smart enough otherwise you just plead “whoopsie oopsie” and it’s fine because that’s how it works when you’ve got money…

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