Grovelling like crazy in effort to avoid offending all those suckers who contributed to his £3.3 million earnings last year - on which he paid £33,000 tax.

There he was, innocently assuming the nice accountant man might save him a bit of income tax, and the bounder went and saved him 49% of his earnings! That's £1,617,000. Bit much, isn't it? Honestly Jimmy, you just can't take people at face value.

It might not be morally right but it was legal though, would be hard to say no when your earning a canny few quid for somebody to say you can pay less tax

Well that's alright then. Poor guy's only human, even if part of his act is slagging off bankers and other fat cats and pretending to be 'one of us.'

He's a slimy fecker at the best of times

Don't know what he's aplogising for, we would all do it in the same situation.

He's only apologising cos he got caught.

He was on at Fort Regent in Jersey a few weeks back. Obviously while he was sorting out his 'deal.' allegedly.

Thing is though I don't see what he has been "caught" doing. It's 100% legal, he should have had a set of knackers and kept doing it.

There will be 1000s of people using these loopholes to save on tax, civil servants included.
Which is why the government won't be in a rush to shut them down.

The government and all the other MPs need to get their own house in order before they criticise celebs over financial issues.

Remember the expenses scandal?

That's a while ago now though innit, how do you know that they haven't got "their own house in order" now?

Ah a thread criticising a comedians tax payments. Personally I prefer raping dogs, welcome to the Poolie bunker!

I think if you read it correctly you will find that most arent criticising him. So f**k off back to the Northern League where you belong!

and your sister refused to complain so jog on

CHOMP. I'm too busy sucking my dad off to give you a proper reply.

Aww well done, think it's bedtime for you now though. I'm getting in with my mummy and daddy again for sexy cuddles!

George Benson

i'd need a fooking medium

My penis hasn't developed beyond a pre-teen age.

and yet superior to yours in so many ways

You can't talk to Quakerz like that he was once a big hard
Night club bouncer ynaar

That's not Quakerz, Boynie's a completely different breed!

Read his posts again though, they're well funny if nowt else.

nice one ripper

I'm immensly disappointed in Jimmy Carr deciding to don a hairshirt over this. It's not illegal, he's done nothing wrong.

If the government are unable to legislate properly, that's their fault.

The return you get for the rate of tax the wealthy (and even not so wealthy) pay in the UK is shocking.

What's a hair shirt? A shirt made of hair?

You'd think he could afford a proper shirt

Hair Shirt : A garment of rough cloth made from goats' hair and worn in the form of a shirt or as a girdle around the loins, by way of mortification and penance.

Ye Gods........ A bloke legally minimises his tax bill and the outrage moped is not only wheeled out but has a full engine stripdown and decoke.

To be fair, I haven't seen much outrage and Carr hasn't really been that heavily criticised as most people agree with the logistics of what he has done.

However, if you make a career out of criticising people for acting immorally then you've got to expect a bit back yourself when the roles are reversed.

I bet this fella doesn't get as much press as Jimmy Carr for doing basically the same thing...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2012 ... CMP=twt_fd

or maybe this graphic won't get as much attention from David Cameron...

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Tpsju1uJiws/T ... /Jimmy.gif

or maybe this fact...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2012 ... CMP=twt_gu

I hope the attack on Jimmy backfires and exposes a few of the MP's who have been involved in this kind of thing for decades.

Why the sympathy for Jimmy Carr? Have you ever heard the expression two wrongs don't make a right? We all know 'the system' is riddled with loopholes that no government (Labour or Tory) has really got to grips with, that some MPs aren't moral paragons and that knobhead Cameron was keener on criticising a comic with no links to his party than a Tory donor who's (legally) swindled the country out of even more tax revenue.

Does that make what Carr was doing alright then? Because he's a comic? Because you might find him quite funny? Or because, as someone else said, it's what we'd all be doing if we had half a chance? I reckon I pay about £5k a year in basic income tax (forgetting about other taxes like National Insurance). Last year it took 323 taxpayers like me just to give the revenue the equivalent out the £1.6 million in tax Carr didn't pay. Multiply that by all the other tax-doging celebs like most of Take That, the bankers, the businessmen etc etc, and you need a fook of a lot of basic rate tax payers to pay for this country's heath service, education, and the rest. Bit of a problem when there's 2.5 million registered unemployed and millions more low or non- income earners that the government aren't counting, for one reason or another.

There's only one solution. Close all the loopholes and make 'em pay. Make all the cheating, selfish, piss-taking bastards pay, before we end up like Greece.

I don't mind ending up like Greece provided we get the Cyclades.

With our luck we're more likely to get Chlamydia.

I wouldnt mind ending up like Greece, at least they have won the Euros, more than we have ever done!

Aye but now none of them can afford a telly, a newspaper, internet, radio or foreign travel so they wouldn't know if they'd done it again. If they could afford them, they'd have nowhere to read or plug it in as the homeless rates are soaring.

So we lost the footy. Fuck it. Life goes on. Bring on the Olympics.

Oh yeah............. that's what shagged the Greeks......

When asked about the criticism of him, he said he can't complain, he'd been dishing it out for years.

Decent weather in greece aswell like

Outrages these multi millionaires paying next to nowt in tax and then camaron comes out with cutting housing benefit.
Nice little switcharoo dave away from the tax dodgers to the benefit people.

[quote="mouldy old dough" camaron comes out with cutting housing benefit..[/quote]

Good & lets hope he doesnt stop at housing benefit. If you want anything in life, you drag your idle arse out of bed everyday & work for it. The sooner we stop paying scroungers to lie around in bed all day the better!

Good & lets hope he doesnt stop at housing benefit. If you want anything in life, you drag your idle arse out of bed everyday & work for it. The sooner we stop paying scroungers to lie around in bed all day the better![/quote]

But there are people out there who want to work but there's not the jobs available.
You'll always have the workshy but how do you seperate those on benefits who don't want to work to those who do?
Its impossible.
A couple of my mates who are on the rock n roll would love secure employment. What exactly is there in this town employment wise?
By cutting housing benefit where are all these young people going to live?
Its a policy too far which won't even get past the printer.
Cameron is a bounder. He needs to sort out the big tax dodgers, a lot within his own party.

Rubbish, there are always jobs available if you want to work. The workshy have usually been on the dole for years & years, but if you want work you might be on the dole for a few months then you would get a job. No-one can help it if they are made redundant & need to go on the dole, so fair enough help them out when they need it. Its the long term lazy sods who have no intention of ever getting a job that i am on about.
If you cut housing benefit the young can live with their parents, why should I have to pay their housing benefit for them just cos they want their independence. I have a 26year old son & a 16 year old daughter who live at home & I know they wont move out for years, but thats fine, its my job to work to provide a roof over their heads. I wouldnt expect anyone else to keep them.

[quote="poolie1966"]Rubbish, there are always jobs available if you want to work.quote]

bollox

In theory i agree with what you are saying about not providing for people that dont want to work, I have a cousin who is like this and it annoys the hell out of me as I have two jobs and why should I provide for her. But the second point about getting a job is easy i dont agree with as there are now hundereds of people applying for jobs.

Also I dont know how people get away with being on the dole for so long I have signed on twice in my life (one time I basically told them I didnt need a job as had one lined up in two months so was pointless sending me for interviews) but the other time they hounded me to apply for all sorts.

Now on the other side of the fence being a graduate sometime doesnt work in your favour I applied for positions after Uni just to get a job and foot in the door at the bottom of certain companies only to be met with, "your too qualified for the role". I dont understand this fall back at all and it bollocks if I want a job how can you be over qualified for the position?