“Ordinary second-home owners.”
“Ordinary second-home owners.”?!?!?!?!?!
Seriously?!
Is that what all this is about?
The Telegraph, which has been sitting on all the expenses data for months, has suddenly decided to reveal this info about David Laws and now Danny Alexander, just as the Lib Dems are calling for CGT to be raised to 50%. Hmm.What a coincidence.
Well, they can FUCK RIGHT OFF with the moral highground, then.
If the expenses saga was really about getting value for taxpayers’ money, they’d just publish all the info, rather than what they are doing, which looks suspiciously like sitting on it until they want to use it to bring down people they don’t like.
Argh. This may be from 2007, but, ooh, look, a step by step guide on how to avoid paying CGT! Including the deliciously unexpected, ‘Don’t get married!’*
You know what? That money that you’re supposed to pay on your “ordinary” second-home? That’s public money too. I know it doesn’t feel like it, I know it feels like yours, and I do agree that public servants should be held to higher standards (to some extent, there’s no need to be ridiculous – they’re still human, and we should all be held to high standards), but seriously – that’s public money too. Avoiding paying CGT on your second-home, is, perhaps, an act of omission rather than commission, but you are still depriving the country of the public funds you keep telling us we’re so desperately short of.
So, yeah. Fuck right off with the moral highground.
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* Choosing not to get married because you get more benefits if you’re single is, like, totally different from not getting married to pay less tax on your second-home.
