Bristol Sport All Stars

lots of people avoid paying tax (legitably) wherever possible (ask anyone who has an accountant) but not everyone goes as far as to move to do so - but some do and strangely enough it is not a crime

"I chose to remain a domiciled taxpayer for a couple of reasons. The main one was that I wanted my children to grow up where I grew up, to have proper roots in a culture as old and magnificent as Britain’s; to be citizens, with everything that implies, of a real country, not free-floating ex-pats, living in the limbo of some tax haven and associating only with the children of similarly greedy tax exiles.

A second reason, however, was that I am indebted to the British welfare state; the very one that Mr Cameron would like to replace with charity handouts. When my life hit rock bottom, that safety net, threadbare though it had become under John Major’s Government, was there to break the fall. I cannot help feeling, therefore, that it would have been contemptible to scarper for the West Indies at the first sniff of a seven-figure royalty cheque. This, if you like, is my notion of patriotism. On the available evidence, I suspect that it is Lord Ashcroft’s idea of being a mug."

Good Yate girl our Joanne.

I am not wealthy but my parents died and so I had to go through probate. I was stunned that the government can take money from the estates of dead people and then it is the family who pay to sort the probate. If I were in the same situation then I would certainly not want my family to lose out.
To see SL admit on made in Bristol that he was Rovers was bittersweet for me as many didn't believe me. I would very happily take his investment rather than be this holier than thou guy who has to see the team he grew up loving, fall apart by the Month.
Oh man, how things could have been so different.

“Don’t hate the player, hate the game”

Anyone can think what they like him, the system or whatever. Each to their own, but let’s not make out as if Steve Lansdown either directly or indirectly contributes no tax revenue or benefit to the British economy.

Could he pay more? Maybe. Could he pay less? Probably.

Is it just because it’s Guernsey it’s a problem? Because people see it as tax evasion. if he wanted to retire somewhere warmer and live on a sandy beach with clear blue water and still invest in Bristol Sport would that be ok?

What of my father?

Oh come on. He left the country to avoid it. You're just playing silly games.

No really not, he doesn't live here, what's the issue?
So what if he left the country, can you're really blame anyone for wanting to leave this cesspit?
Our tax regimes only remit is to collect enough money to pay for all the non contributors, the public service unions members, the EU, benefits claimants, oversees aid and other often worthless expenditure...what a mess, and it will only get worse.
If I had no business commitments here I'd be spending 9 months annually oversees paying tax only on my UK earnings, something I believe SL does along with many others.
Thankfully we are allowed to come and go as we please unlike the residents of Eastern Europe who suffered over 50 years of destructive and ruinous socialism after World War 2...anyway we wouldn't be having this debate if SL had ploughed his cash into us, this silly nonsense is all jealousy and bile, grow up.