Well, isn’t this interesting. Ritchie’s launched the Fair Tax Pledge. Where you promise to obey the law when dealing with your taxes. As AndyC notes:
Now we have this pathetic ‘pledge’ saying we will declare and pay the right amount of tax. Funnily enough, people pledge this when they sign their tax return.
The truly interesting bit is that if you sign it and ask, they’ll send you a little badge that you can put in the window. And yet they’re not charging anything for it.
Can we hope that Murph is paying for this directly himself?
The Fair Tax Pledge
Anyone fancy asking him what he considers “tax havens” in the context of applying for this badge?
It’s there. Anyone getting more than 66% on the secrecy list from the TJN.
They obviously couldn’t insist upon “any tax haven” because of course the loons insist the UK is one.
Indeed, note how the list order changes, on the secrecy jurisdictions website it’s ordered to make Switzerland evil on the top.
However, you can’t do the on the FTP site as that would make Germany, the US and the UK a tax haven, so sorted by some other bullshit metric.
I’ve signed it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYfvvvtKwQM
If you want the logo, just get it here:
http://www.fairtaxpledge.uk/assets/FTP_logos.zip
The form has no captcha so expect the spam bots to be at it soon.
Most amusingly, for a man that insists that beneficial owner records are a must, the fair tax pledge domain name lookup shows again Fulcrum Chartered Accountants:
Data validation:
Nominet was not able to match the registrant’s name and/or address against a 3rd party source on 02-Jun-2015
Since they won’t be checking, could we not send in a few pledges from
M Mouse
D Duck
B Madoff
G Barlow
L Piggott
And so on?
Be a trvial and meaningless laugh but would show up the ‘pledge’ as the idiotic thing that it is.
Hold on – I can get a Fair Tax Mark, if I pay a chunk of cash and spend time in discussions convincing someone I should have it. This allows me to put a little logo in my window, and say I have it.
Or I can get an almost-identical little logo, and the right to say something almost identical, for nothing and with no audit?
Why would I ever want to do the former?
This would seem to mean that no-one’s going to be signing up to the FTM in future; though as very few people have done so to date, perhaps this is conceding that the FTM is not as popular as was originally envisaged?
Although it’s nice to see that the Pledge is about paying a “fair” amount of tax, whereas the Mark was (potentially, at least) more about explaining why you weren’t paying a fair amount.
Alastair Capone has just made the pledge.
🙂
What a load of bollocks. You can sign up multiple times with the same email address. Who coded this crap?
I wonder if it’s a limited time only all rugs must go style loss leader?
Does the badge explain what ‘fair’ means?
There’s some letter Murphaloon wants people to download and send to their accountant.
This pledge requires that the advisor must not advise the individual to MAKE USE of DOTAS etc schemes.
Presumably there’s no problem with making a client AWARE of such schemes?
Gets more and more bat shit crazy all the time.
Tim can you put an fair tax mark on this site.
I posted a comment promising to sign The Pledge. But he deleted it! Could it be because I called myself Margaret Hodge?
Has he registered the logo as a trademark or IP. If not …….
OT, but had to share this fabulous Guardian correction:
“This article was amended on 11 June 2015 to correct the deficit percentage figure from 80% to 5%”
Go on, guess who wrote it:
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jun/11/george-osborne-surplus-labour-leadership-nonsense
Fair Tax Mark Conference 2015, packed out
https://twitter.com/timinbarking/status/609288259139715072
There’s 20 people on the list to speak, so take them out and Ritchie’s lecturing the tea lady.
@ Noel Scoper
I counted 29 heads, so there must be a few journalists from the Grauniad, New Statesman and Morning Star there as well.
” Where next for the Fair Tax Mark?”
Meesha Nehru & Richard Murphy”
I see the agenda for the FTM conference includes a workshop on the above?
Anyone on here got any ideas, predictions or suggestions?
Might be worth getting a FTM just in case its scarcity value makes it worth something in years to come, like those Midland bank piggy banks.
@John77
You’re there? Will we have a summary of the day from you?
It might counter the story we get from Murphy, in which crowds of thousands cheer his name, and everything he says, to the rafters before carrying him aloft their shoulders to be annointed as a living God.
Mr Michael Mouse of Downham Market has just taken The Pledge
I am looking at that photo and practically sobbing with vicarious boredom. I wonder how long I could stand actually being there before I cracked. Screw waterboarding, if the Feds ever wanted me to cough to anything, subjecting me to Murphy and his band of merry men would have me singing like a canary in five minutes flat.
Never has the term “circlejerk” felt more apt than imaging the people in that room for the “conference” – something which I imagine will be delivered in the same rational, calm, open, honest, debatable nature as the Nuremberg Rallies
Oh, yes, I se now, having opened up the picture in the tweet.
Conference? Aren’t conferences held in halls capable of holding hundreds? That room looks like it’d get hot and sweaty if it held 50.
And with 20+ people down to pontificate at one time or another, it doesn’t leave much room for anyone else. and they were actually trying to get people to stump up money to come! With ‘early bird’ discounts.
Usually when something is failing so miserably, that part of my soul where pathos resides starts feeing sorry for those involved but here, pathos as gone on a short holiday and inside my soul, joy and laughter and even schadenfreude are having a party.
George Osborne, Chancellor, has signed.
It’s gathering momentum!
This conference took place on a Saturday didn’t it? What a fine way to spend your weekend?