Prescott apologises on tax bill
12-01-2006, 21:50
|
#1
|
|
[NTHW] pc clan
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: Tonbridge
Age: 41
Services: Be* Unlimited ADSL2+ BB
Posts: 17,741
|
Prescott apologises on tax bill
Quote:
|
Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott has apologised after admitting council tax bills for one of his official homes were paid with taxpayers' money.....Mr Prescott said the mistake was an "inadvertent error" and that he had thought he was paying council tax on all of his three homes.....Mr Prescott, who is in charge of council tax, said it was a mistake and he was reimbursing the government.....The Conservatives said a "sustained campaign" of parliamentary questions and Freedom of Information Act requests by Ms Spelman had prompted Mr Prescott's admission.....Exeter pensioner Sylvia Hardy, who was jailed for failing to pay her council tax, said she was "staggered" by the news about Mr Prescott.
|
link
__________________
Step by step, walk the thousand mile road...
-----------------------------------------------------
Are you a mature PC gamer? Then go to the mature gamers site: nthwgaming.co.uk 
|
|
|
|
12-01-2006, 23:14
|
#2
|
|
Eric Cartman Wannabe
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: Cockney geeza land
Age: 27
Services: c:\> net start punky
Posts: 12,086
|
Re: Prescott apologises on tax bill
Anyone know you inadvertently get your council tax paid by the government? 
__________________
"We're not here for a long time, we're here for a good time" - Mike Ness (Social Distortion)
"Reach for the sky, 'cause tomorrow may never come" - Reach For The Sky (Social Distortion)
|
|
|
|
|
13-01-2006, 01:22
|
#3
|
|
looked and can't be arsed
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: Teesside
Posts: 7,553
|
Re: Prescott apologises on tax bill
Oops, another blow for TB, and I didn't fast-track the nannies visa  how much more corruption / mis-doings ( accidents ) are gonna come to light this week he may as well get it all over and done with. Seriously though, if it were you or I we would have been taken to court for fraud, what's gonna happen to him ?????? Time will tell, as if we don't know already.
__________________
Last edited by bopdude; 13-01-2006 at 01:25.
|
|
|
|
|
14-01-2006, 17:31
|
#4
|
|
cf.mega poster
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: outer space
Posts: 1,038
|
Re: Prescott apologises on tax bill
He only apologises because he got caught out 
|
|
|
|
|
14-01-2006, 17:41
|
#5
|
|
Cable Forum Team
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: Port Talbot
Age: 34
Services: Tmobile WnW HSDPA
Posts: 20,370
|
Re: Prescott apologises on tax bill
He's a polititian, what's he supposed to do - show genuine remorse?
__________________
I worry about my nan. She lives alone. If she fell over, would she make a noise?
The king and cage
|
|
|
|
|
14-01-2006, 17:45
|
#6
|
|
[NTHW] pc clan
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: Tonbridge
Age: 41
Services: Be* Unlimited ADSL2+ BB
Posts: 17,741
|
Re: Prescott apologises on tax bill
Quote:
|
Originally Posted by luftys
He only apologises because he got caught out |
....and he only got caught out because of a : "sustained campaign of parliamentary questions and Freedom of Information Act requests"
__________________
Step by step, walk the thousand mile road...
-----------------------------------------------------
Are you a mature PC gamer? Then go to the mature gamers site: nthwgaming.co.uk
Last edited by Ramrod; 14-01-2006 at 17:49.
|
|
|
|
|
16-01-2006, 00:11
|
#7
|
|
Cable Forum Team
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: It's Lahndun, Innit?
Age: 37
Services: Virgin for TV, BT for phone and Be* for Broadband.
Posts: 17,475
|
Re: Prescott apologises on tax bill
And, to think, that in my area (Bromley) we are paying a higher council tax because some of the council's government funding "accidentally" got paid to a council up north.
Of course, they cannot reclaim it.
__________________
Just to make it clear if a post is bold and is from a team member, it's a moderating decision. If it's not bold or not from a team member, it's not.
"This is an important announcement. This is flight 121 to Los Angeles. If your travel plans today do not include Los Angeles, now would be a perfect time to disembark.”
|
|
|
|
|
16-01-2006, 01:35
|
#8
|
|
Cable Forum Team
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: midlands
Age: 39
Services: Mummy that man was nasty to me!!!
Posts: 17,971
|
Re: Prescott apologises on tax bill
The council tax of all the taxes in the country is the most archaic.You can imagine knight in armer knocking on your door saying bailiffs if you can't pay.The councils have rediculas rights in this manner who do they think they are.But of course the problem in this country as proven with the poll tax and the tv licence is that they wont stand together against such dogma and the wheel just keeps turning
__________________
 zinglebarb was hereThe blade twists you feel it burn it hurts so bad! how many more times in this life before it kills Arrrrrrrrrrrrrghhhhhhhhhhhhh !!!!!!!!!!!!
|
|
|
|
|
16-01-2006, 22:24
|
#9
|
|
cf.mega poster
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Leics
Age: 29
Services: none
Posts: 5,641
|
Re: Prescott apologises on tax bill
I would rate the tv licence as the worst tax with council tax close 2nd, although the council tax is more money I rate it behind because poor people can claim council tax credit, there is no means testing whatsoever for tv licence payments.
|
|
|
|
|
Currently Active Users Viewing This Thread: 1 (0 members and 1 guests)
|
|
|
Posting Rules
|
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts
HTML code is Off
|
|
|
All times are GMT +1. The time now is 04:49.
|
Join CF
You are here: 
