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Please don't try to prejudge my or my family's tax arrangements.
Regardless, it's all relative. The tax I pay is relative to what I earn. I'm happy to pay what the government dictates is the fair tax for me to pay on my earnings. Lewis Hamilton isn't, and therefore doesn't contribute to the British society (and therefore the British people) that he claims to love. |
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So the race was yet again decided in the pits. Maybe one day it'll actually be decided on the track once again.
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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? |
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If he wants to do that, then fair enough, he is entitled to do that, but he shouldn't be saying he loves "winning on home soil" when he lives in Monaco. He should either move back to the UK and race for Britain, or stay in Monaco for tax reasons and race for Monaco.
He shouldn't be able to have his cake and eat it. |
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On this basis, no-one would give to charity, or have any sense of social responsibility. Sad.
Anyway, good win for Hamilton on the whole. |
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LH & tax
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. |
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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. |
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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. 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. |
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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. |
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Please don't try to prejudge my or my family's tax arrangements.
Regardless, it's all relative. The tax I pay is relative to what I earn. I'm happy to pay what the government dictates is the fair tax for me to pay on my earnings. Lewis Hamilton isn't, and therefore doesn't contribute to the British society (and therefore the British people) that he claims to love. 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. |
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He will pay tax in the UK on his earnings whilst driving in the British Grand Prix, just as tennis players will pay UK tax on their earnings from Wimbledon.
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. |
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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. |
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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.
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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. |
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Think Ali G has a comment...........
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Button lives in Monaco but yet the same questions are not asked of him. Does he pay uk taxes?
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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!
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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.
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Why don't you go and cry about it somewhere else because it has bugger all to do with racing
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If he wants to do that, then fair enough, he is entitled to do that, but he shouldn't be saying he loves "winning on home soil" when he lives in Monaco. He should either move back to the UK and race for Britain, or stay in Monaco for tax reasons and race for Monaco.
He shouldn't be able to have his cake and eat it. |
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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.
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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. |
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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.
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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.
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Anyone got an answer for my Vale / Club question that got buried by other discussion?
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