Lewis Hamilton pays what the government dictates is the fair tax for him to pay on his earnings. It is just that you feel that the government doesn't dictate that he pays enough.

Well, it seems that they can't pass each other on the track because they have to keep their distance from the car in front to protect their tyres....which is the result of all the stupid rules that have now been introduced into F1 to make it less competitive and boring to watch.

Why do DC and others call the the S-bends before the last corner Club? I thought Club was the last corner and the S-bends are Vale as is shown on most circuit guides.

Also on the ice-track feature with Bottas looks like they used the old circuit layout with Abbey turning left?

He is domiciled for tax purposes in Britain so it is "home" soil.

Giving to charity reduces your tax too. That is why the rich give so much to charities. It means that they can choose how their tax money is spent. They can choose to fund the local donkey sanctuary if that is their pet project and in doing so ensure that they pay no tax so that the rest of us have to fund schools and hospitals including making up for their lack of contribution.

Doesn't Lewis spend something like 200 days a year travelling around to all the races so he is hardly living full time in the UK and using the services taxes pay for day in day out so to be honest it doesn't bother me in the slightest how much tax he pays. He is born British and that's all that matters imo.

Furthermore I am sure I read somewhere that the drivers have to pay tax in each country they race in or something like that.

I think its worse that there are people who live in the UK full time and do not pay tax at all but use the services our taxes pay for day in day out costing us more in the process.

Yes, but Lewis Hamilton was raised here as a child, and went to a state school. The state helped to make him into the racing driver he is today, and so he should be giving money back to them relative to how much he earns. It's not as if he's going without!

Either that or he should race for Monaco instead.

That is certainly true in the UK and probably true of most countries on the F1 racing calendar apart from Bahrain and Monaco.

Even if he was tax resident in the UK, therefore, he would still not pay any UK tax on his overseas earnings from motor racing because he would be entitled to relief against his UK tax for the tax that he has already suffered overseas on those same earnings.

Isn't that what his parents taxes should have been paying for rather than hi? As Judge Rinder says - if you make em you pay for em.

I'll do what I want to do thank you very much.

No it isn't relative. You said shame he doesn't pay tax to help the nation that got him to where he is. He presumably has, in the past and I'll repeat, much more than you and your family will ever pay into the system.

Then there's the tax that his UK-based team will be paying. We haven't heard about them "doing an Amazon/Starbucks", plus all the VAT from the people he's put on the gate this year. It's totally unfair to say he has paid anything.

Then again, it's ridiculous to assert that you shouldn't call yourself British because you move away. I consider myself Salopian despite having moved 30 years ago - can't see any difference. You are what you are.

No! His dad, who took two jobs, helped to make him a racing driver. As did Ron Dennis. Last time I checked, the national curriculum didn't include how to drive an f1 car!

And yet I'm pretty sure I saw several overtakes....

Why don't you go and cry about it somewhere else because it has bugger all to do with racing

Think Ali G has a comment...........

Button lives in Monaco but yet the same questions are not asked of him. Does he pay uk taxes?

Great race today, loved that it waff mixed up a bit with the Williams! Would have been great if they got on the podium. Shame it somehow reverted to the same podium we've seen all year!

Williams sould of released Bottas he was guaranteed at least 2nd, Rosberg didn't have the pace to catch him and Massa was all over the place, they could of used him to hold up Rosberg and let Bottas pull away.

Just like F1, it goes to show how awful F1 is as a spectacle, if paying or not paying taxes is more of a discussion.

He doesn't race "for Britain" or "for Monaco" though, he races for Mercedes. He is still British, wherever he happens to reside. I don't blame him for wanting to be tax efficient, it isn't like he is using the services here, his job takes him all around the world.

This thread has seriously gone to the dogs. A great race, a home win, lots of excitement and lots of potentially interesting racing-related topics to discuss and yet people still find something puerile to moan about. Pathetic really.

I'm glad it rained, it spiced it up and Hamilton couldn't have timed his switch to inters better. Mercedes may decide their old clutch was better.

No idea why Hamilton is being criticised for living in Monaco, most GP drivers past and present, British or not, lives/lived there or Switzerland or some other low tax country.

Then don't watch it... its not compulsory.

Its not often I agree with your views but on this I do.

Anyone got an answer for my Vale / Club question that got buried by other discussion?