Posts by Andy Clyde

Darling backtracks on CGT

@IanKRolfe

Surely it's triple-dipping? I'm taxed on my income, which I then invest in my company. My company then makes a profit, which is taxed (there used to be a £10K annual threshold on corporation tax but this has been removed so you pay tax on the first penny of profit). Then you sell the company and get taxed a third-time.

eBay employee 'torpedos' fraud trial

FAO Neil Weller

Actually the UK is the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. NI is in the UK, but it is not in GB (GB is England, Scotland and Wales).

Republicans hammer Brit artist's Bush

Cheap stunt?

Surely it should have been described as a "cunning stunt" rather than a cheap stunt...