Hedge Funds in the cayman islands are fine but Crypto isn't according to the tax dodger Rayner. 😄

'Accepting donations from hedge funds is fine, but crypto billionaires isn't?'

But hey what's a lefty without rank hypocrisy?

1 hour ago, Chomper Higgot said:

I expect he will do just that when the next General Election comes around.

lets hope so eh? if he tries that he and the rest will lose their deposits

12 minutes ago, JonnyF said:

Hedge Funds in the cayman islands are fine but Crypto isn't according to the tax dodger Rayner. 😄

'Accepting donations from hedge funds is fine, but crypto billionaires isn't?'

But hey what's a lefty without rank hypocrisy?

As Malcolm X said "by any means necessary" - besides which dirty parties require dirty tactics to defeat them. Good - and when we see poor old Nige get his punch bowl nicked it will be reward enough followed soon after by him retiring because Reform can't get enough of his snout in the trough. Had they got the money he would have had a Rolls Royce team around him and best hotels, expenses and all the rest - "for the party" - if that evaporates I can't see him slumming it with obese toothless hags whining on about they want their country back whilst wheezing on 20 Benson. TBH who would.

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There is a very narrow route in the bill where Harborne’s donation could be legal. From our reading, it requires three things to have happened by three dates.

Firstly, his removal from the register as an overseas elector on or before 25 March 2026, when the cap was announced.

Unbroken (not even for one day) UK residence from 6 July 2026 onwards.

And registration as an ordinary UK elector by the date of the donation.

That means Harborne would have had to deregister as an overseas elector before the £100,000 was even announced, which suggests foresight that is unlikely to have existed. We know Harborne was registered to vote in February this year, as on the 19th he donated £25,000 (as a benefit in kind) to Nigel Farage for a trip to the Maldives, on a “humanitarian aid mission.”

And we know he gave a Bangkok address as recently as 9 June, from the High Court filing — so he surely cannot have returned before then. We also know that Companies House still records Harborne’s country of residence as Thailand, and has done so continuously since 2018. No change has yet been published for the two UK firms Harborne controls – despite a 14-day legal duty to notify the company regulator on a change in residency status.

So for his donation to be legal, Harborne would have had to have made that gift in kind – presumably as an overseas elector – then deregistered quickly as an overseas elector before 25 March – then moved back to the UK before the July cut-off, then quickly registered to vote in the UK. And, it seems, for the Companies House entries to be incorrect.

That’s a lot of ‘ifs’.

2 hours ago, The Cyclist said:

Don't confuse tax avoidance, with tax evasion.

2 different things. 1 is illegal, the other isn't.

That's precisely why I used the word avoidance.

So any UK government can not only change the rules that work against their opponents, but do it retrospectively?

Sounds like a trick they learnt from some despot dictator in a 3rd world country. Mind you, looks like the UK is heading towards 3rd world when you see gangs of immigrants menacing people in town centres.

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