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@DeezerDevs putting this pop up OVER the search box is a proper dick move.

Are you TRYING To piss off paying customers?

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@reformparty_uk May we introduce you to your own candidate Matt Gpt?

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@TristanGinger

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@implausibleblog Good old Dunning Kruger

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@BarryPierce @miffythegamer

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@phendetta @BarryPierce She set the very worst people on a large section of her core fans then left them to it....

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@narindertweets Reducing the issue to "eating cake" just makes it clear how completely unserious you are.

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@JimCognito2016 When they said CUT TAXES, They meant, Putting taxes up less .

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@ahachete @Cloudflare @LaLiga I struggle to connect to my own server when there's sportsing, but, the REALLY Funny thing is, the one thing that ISN'T affected, is my IPTV subscription.

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Dude adds a zero on his figures for rage bait, then the 550 becomes 650 half way through.

Malicious? Misinformed? Or just plain old click bait lies?

You decide!

[Hispanic Nomad | Remote Work, Travel, Growth @hispanicnomad]

I just found my favorite Spanish 🇪🇸 tax authorities story ever

Paco Vallejo was a professional chess player. Top 40 in the world; which is a CRAZY achievement

Then Hacienda decided he owed them €650,000... For money he never made

See, Paco played online poker in 2011, for fun. He ended up losing 5,715€, which, you know, no big deal

But Hacienda took that and decided to ruin his life

See, in 2011 there was an old Spanish law that taxed poker "winnings" at 47% but didn't allow you to deduct losses. So if you made €86,000 and lost €92,000, the government ignored the losses and taxed you on the full €86,000.

This law was insane. Everyone knew it was insane. So in 2012 they changed it

But they didn't make the change retroactive

Five years later, in 2016, Hacienda sends Vallejo a letter. They've looked back at his 2011 poker account, and saw he had gross winnings of €86,482. They ignored that he lost €92,197. They did the math under the old law and told him he owed €550,000 in taxes

For money he never made, and for a loss he actually took

Paco is Spain's #1 chess player. One of the world's best. This wasn't some hidden offshore scheme, either; his poker account was completely transparent, digitally recorded. They could see every hand. They knew he lost money

They didn't care

The appeals process was designed to break him:

❌ Years of lawyers
❌ Legal fees destroying his savings
❌ Every day, the threat of seizure hanging over him
❌ His mother got sick during this period. He couldn't help her because Hacienda had already taken almost all his money

The stress was so severe he withdrew from a major international chess tournament. First time in his professional career

He was 35 years old, and one of Spain's greatest talents. And the government was treating him like a criminal for playing poker once and losing money

So he left Spain

Eventually he won the case, which took him six years of his life. But here's the thing:

❌Hacienda didn't compensate him for the legal costs
❌ Didn't compensate him for the years of stress
❌ Didn't compensate him for the tournaments he cancelled, the image damage, the psychological destruction

He just got his initial money back, and he had to move on

This is what I mean when I talk about Spain's tax system. It's not just "unfair." It's designed to assume guilt and make you prove innocence, even when the digital evidence is crystal clear

Funny enough, Paco released an interview last week, and it turns out he's living in Paraguay now, too. I'd love to meet him; so Paco, if you're reading this, let's grab a beer!

Anyway, that's why Paco left, and why thousands of others leave too

And that's what I help people navigate

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@hispanicnomad @Duarteosrm By "I don't know the exact mechanics" do you mean, you've no idea what you're talking about?

I'd say you've added a zero for effect.

But your figures with added zero change by 100000 half way through your story.

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@TadhgCalbhaigh @Femi_sorry @LucyTCWife @hmpps Not a political figure... Source: ITVX https://t.co/nI7hy5roFc

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@frgbju @DaveKeating Directly addressing both the point and your pointless diversion.

But it's me who lost the point?

🤷🤡

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@PaulDavidJones @BBCNewsnight How dare the man whos the main subject of a film that won an award be in the audience at the awards 🤔

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@DaveKeating @frgbju It's not an "eu passport" you hold its Belgian

And you don't understand the point. people who have the RIGHT to uk nationality they have never realised, are covered by this rule.

An Australian, with an English parent, who's never been to the UK, needs a UK passport or COE

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@DaveKeating @frgbju Plenty of eu nationals HAVE NO PASSPORT. They don't need one to travel in the EU.

Many Spaniards have no passport, their DNI is all they need.

Your passport has very little to do with schengen zone rights as an EU national.

Your passport is not issued by the EU

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@frgbju @DaveKeating And?

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@DaveKeating @frgbju None of that actually responds to the point, or really means anything. I have a UK passport with EU written on it,

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@DaveKeating This forces dual nationals, like the children of UK nationals born abroad, to apply for a UK passport or pay £589 for a certificate of entitlement, even though they hold a valid Australian, Spanish, whatever passport.

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@DaveKeating First things, There's no such thing as an EU passport. Each country have their own passport with their own passport requirements, Many many people who are entitled to a UK passport under dual citizenship rules via a parent don't actually hold a current the passport....