@paulmasonnews Looks like:
1.) Keep Sir Keir in post as PM until May 7.
2.) Suffer terrible losses in local, devolved elections.
3.) Blame Sir Keir.
4.) Force PM to resign on May 8.
5.) Have leadership contest - June to July.
6.) Install new leader no later than Sep 1.
Makes total sense...
@annaturley@Nigel_Farage Rayner avoided tax and broke the tax rules. Farage didn’t tell the precise truth but broke no tax rules as far as we know.
Good luck with your attempt to smear Farage but I predict you will fail.
@PippaCrerar You may wish to rethink this one Pippa. The tax paid via using a PSC is comparable to the tax paid on a salary. Get in touch if you need granular assistance with objective facts on how to calculate the tax and make an accurate comparison.
@PippaCrerar Farage may not be a pleasant politician but what he’s doing here is standard and legal.
Thousands of people use “private companies”, including many journalists I’m sure.
Poor effort to deflect attention away from Angela Rayner.
@DanNeidle Small point, but could the arrows be moved (from left to right) to right to left? Want to encourage people to be category 1 rather than category 5 😂
@MatthewStadlen@JonathanPieNews 2/2. However, to onlookers without detailed knowedge of the tax system, it might look like tax avoidance and might look bad politically given the government's housing policy. I wonder if @DanNeidle has posted on this story?
@MatthewStadlen@JonathanPieNews 1/2. I think the root cause of the "issue" here is that there is no consistent definition of "primary residence" here across tax law across things like stamp duty, council tax and capital gains tax.
And so Rayner can play by the rules and legally minimise their tax liability.