Tax breaks for all in Spain

The McBroon Clan of Scottish ministers and sporran-hanging MPs, having ruined the British economy, have now been exposed as tax dodgers with many of them getting taxpayers to pick up the bills from the accountants they hired “to make sure we were paying the correct of amount of tax”.

For “correct” read “minimum”. And the worst offender appears to be Alistair Darling, the man in charge of tax matters and who recently declared war on tax havens and all those business people using them.

Since he and his predecessor as chancellor, the head of the McBroons himself, came to power they have increased the tax burden on the British citizenry to the highest levels for decades. So why should the rest of us part with a penny of the ever-increasing taxation being demanded by a man who doesn't pay his own fair share?

McDarling's tax avoidance was revealed by the Daily Telegraph because his expenses claims showed that he'd 'flipped' his designated second home - the one on which he could claim running costs from the taxpayer - four times in four years.

In 2004, when he was Secretary of State for Transport, Mr Darling claimed that his main residence was a small flat in Lambeth, owned by Lewis Moonie, a fellow Labour MP. Mr Moonie - another part of the spider’s web of Scottish McBroon MPs - had bought the flat from Gordon Brown.

But for McDarling, designating this flat as his main residence - despite the fact that his wife and children lived in Scotland - allowed him to bill taxpayers for the upkeep of his much larger Edinburgh house, bought for £570,000 in 1998…

It would take an accountant to unravel such a web of deceit and maximise the tax avoidance, so it’s no surprise he hired one and put his fees on the taxpayer’s tab. The saga is detailed in the Daily Mail and is worth reading.

Also worth reading for taxpayers planning to invest some of their cash the McBroons have not yet grabbed, is an article on how to buy a bargain property in Spain – including Spanish bank repossessions – and avoid all the McBroon property taxes. No capital gains tax – benefit enjoyed by McBroon and other MPs – and no inheritance tax, no currency exchange problems etc.

The scheme is called Libertad – Spanish for Freedom – and more Brits are planning to follow the example of the McBroons and minimise the amount of tax they hand over.