Good old Tony!

[Grant Fondo]

Why am I not surprised?
Pandora Papers: Blairs saved £312,000 stamp duty in property deal - BBC News

 

[Hacienda71]

Can't see this thread staying open long. ..

 

[Grant Fondo]

Can't see this thread staying open long. ..

i hope not

 

[biggs682]

And another one

 

[Ming the Merciless]

 

[Beebo]

It’s a business transaction not a domestic purchase. And the property is an office not a residence.

Never the less it is a silly loophole that gets abused too often by people who use the property for domestic purposes. It’s amazing how many domestic houses I visit in posh parts of London that are owned by off shore companies or trusts.

 

[Dolorous Edd]

It's an odd one. As with many behaviours, people from all political persuasions do things to help themselves - in this case, by minimising the tax they pay. So discussing the issue shouldn't really be political. But some insist on insisting that such behaviours are only practised by their political opponents, or 'prove' something about politics they don't agree with.

 

[Grant Fondo]

I guess its all totally legal, although it makes the socialist ex-PM look a bit, well, crap?

 

[Drago]

Greedy ex politician. Not much of a surprise.

 

[HMS_Dave]

The man would hang his manhood out of the letter box at number 10 with the camera's rolling if someone stuck a ten quid note on it...

He should be swinging from a rope...

 

[Drago]

Mind you, if my Missus looked like Cherie id buy a house through a shell company...and go and live in it!

 

[cookiemonster]

Nothing in comparison to others in the Pandora Papers, including funding of the Tory Party.

 

[Drago]

I see somemof Putin's private shenanigans are also revealed.

Lets hope that whoever leaked these remains anonymous, otherwise they may suddenly find a bit of extra polonium added to their diet.

 

[Cycleops]

Mind you, if my Missus looked like Cherie id buy a house through a shell company...and go and live in it!

She did at least have a cricket stand designed and named after her.

 

[PeteXXX]

The article says that His Tonyship will pay Capital Gains tax if/when he sells the place. I doubt he'd stoop as low as that!
It'll be moved on via another bit of shifty, but legal, paper shuffling.