Today's: P-Boiler: Baroness Uddin off the hook
Discussion
I'm too angry to see if this is a repost or not so anyone responding "R" can just pheck off.
Baroness "Trougher" Uddin will not be prosecuted for fiddling £100,000 in expenses because " a ruling by House of Lords officials that a peer's main home can be somewhere they visit just once a month "
Meanwhile HMRC's web site states:
"EIM31660 - The general rule for employees’ expenses: wholly and exclusively
To be deductible from the earnings of an employment an expense must be incurred wholly and exclusively in the performance of the duties of the employment. The words "wholly" and "exclusively" prevent a deduction for expenditure that serves a dual purpose, a business purpose and a non-business purpose. The wholly and exclusively rule does not apply to travel expenses, see EIM31805."
I am too angry to say anything else except - to the barricades, bring the piano wire.
Wikipedia said:
Uddin claims on her House of Lords Expenses that a flat in Maidstone, Kent is her main residence on which she has claimed £30,000 per annum in tax-free expenses since 2005. This is said to have allowed her to also claim the second home allowance on her London property, a scheme that ostensibly exists to compensate politicians living outside London for the cost of accommodation close to Parliament. Residents living near the flat in Maidstone reportedly said they had not seen any occupiers in the flat since Uddin purchased it and that it has remained completely unfurnished,[14][15] but Uddin claims: "The Maidstone property is furnished and I strongly deny that I have never lived there".[16] Uddin's husband even denied having a property in Kent when questioned on the issue by the Times, and she appeared on the electoral roll at her London address from 1996 to date. Additionally her Facebook page states how she has lived in the East End of London for over 30 years.
Thieving f
king scumbag. 
Neil H said:
Wikipedia said:
Uddin claims on her House of Lords Expenses that a flat in Maidstone, Kent is her main residence on which she has claimed £30,000 per annum in tax-free expenses since 2005. This is said to have allowed her to also claim the second home allowance on her London property, a scheme that ostensibly exists to compensate politicians living outside London for the cost of accommodation close to Parliament. Residents living near the flat in Maidstone reportedly said they had not seen any occupiers in the flat since Uddin purchased it and that it has remained completely unfurnished,[14][15] but Uddin claims: "The Maidstone property is furnished and I strongly deny that I have never lived there".[16] Uddin's husband even denied having a property in Kent when questioned on the issue by the Times, and she appeared on the electoral roll at her London address from 1996 to date. Additionally her Facebook page states how she has lived in the East End of London for over 30 years.
Thieving fking scumbag. Not that I would suggest that.......absolutely not. Never. After all it's not furnished.
audidoody said:
I'm too angry to see if this is a repost or not so anyone responding "R" can just pheck off.
Baroness "Trougher" Uddin will not be prosecuted for fiddling £100,000 in expenses because " a ruling by House of Lords officials that a peer's main home can be somewhere they visit just once a month "
Meanwhile HMRC's web site states:
"EIM31660 - The general rule for employees’ expenses: wholly and exclusively
To be deductible from the earnings of an employment an expense must be incurred wholly and exclusively in the performance of the duties of the employment. The words "wholly" and "exclusively" prevent a deduction for expenditure that serves a dual purpose, a business purpose and a non-business purpose. The wholly and exclusively rule does not apply to travel expenses, see EIM31805."
I am too angry to say anything else except - to the barricades, bring the piano wire.
HMRC rules are in respect of whether an expense is an allowable tax deductable expense.Baroness "Trougher" Uddin will not be prosecuted for fiddling £100,000 in expenses because " a ruling by House of Lords officials that a peer's main home can be somewhere they visit just once a month "
Meanwhile HMRC's web site states:
"EIM31660 - The general rule for employees’ expenses: wholly and exclusively
To be deductible from the earnings of an employment an expense must be incurred wholly and exclusively in the performance of the duties of the employment. The words "wholly" and "exclusively" prevent a deduction for expenditure that serves a dual purpose, a business purpose and a non-business purpose. The wholly and exclusively rule does not apply to travel expenses, see EIM31805."
I am too angry to say anything else except - to the barricades, bring the piano wire.
The MP Expense Claim rules were in respect of whether the expense could be claimed as a refundable amount from the House of Commons Fees Office. It was therefore not a tax matter and therefore tax rules do/did not apply.
The legal situation for Baroness Uddin was that her claims did not contravene the MP Expense Claim rules that were in force at the time the claims were made. It would therefore be a total waste of taxpayers' money if the Crown Prosecution Service launched a criminal case against an individual when they knew that the case would fall at the first hurdle.
The rules have since been tightened and she WOULD be prosecuted if she tried the same trick now.
Of course, the moral issue is a totally different matter.
69 coupe said:
How can a Baroness, on loads of wonga get a Housing Association place! wouldn't be something to do with any of her relatives working for said Association.
Thieving scum...
Is that a fact? Did one of her relatives help her get her house?Thieving scum...
I don't see what her race has got with her being a thieving scumbag?
ln1234 said:
69 coupe said:
How can a Baroness, on loads of wonga get a Housing Association place! wouldn't be something to do with any of her relatives working for said Association.
Thieving scum...
Is that a fact? Did one of her relatives help her get her house?Thieving scum...
I don't see what her race has got with her being a thieving scumbag?
http://www.spitalfieldsha.co.uk/staff_structure.ht...
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-236...
I have not mentioned anything about race!
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