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25-05-2011, 05:49 PM | #1 | ||
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. Adele has revealed that she's been handing over millions to the UK taxman. The 'Rolling in the Deep' singer said that she is "mortified" that she has had to pay so much money when she doesn't think it goes to good use. She told Q: "I use the NHS, I can't use public transport anymore, doing what I do. I went to state school, I'm mortified to have to pay 50%. "Trains are always late, most state schools are s**t and I've gotta give you, like, four million quid? Are you having a laugh?" The star explained that she got a shock when she received her tax bill after her first album 19. She added: "When I got my tax bill in from 19 I was ready to go and buy a gun and randomly open fire." http://www.digitalspy.com/celebrity/...-millions.html |
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25-05-2011, 05:53 PM | #2 | |||
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She should count herself lucky it's only 50%, would have been more like 70 or 80 a few decades ago.
She cant have it both ways either, dont complain you get taxed too much and then moan about the quality of state run insitutions, that's pretty hypocritical |
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25-05-2011, 05:58 PM | #3 | |||
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I think her point is more that she's being taxed all that money and in spite of that, state institutions are still terrible. This is a common complaint about our tax system; we don't tend to SEE the results of all that taxation.
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25-05-2011, 06:01 PM | #4 | |||
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She'd probably much rather spend that money on McDonalds. (sorry )
But I agree with her. |
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25-05-2011, 06:16 PM | #5 | |||
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She comes across as pretty arrogant to me tbh, she's earning millions doing something she loves, she shouldnt complain about the 50% figure. Lots of people have to pay that, a lot of whom probably work harder than her and earn nowhere near as much, and what's this about with her saying "I cant use public transport", that doesnt mean she shouldnt play a part in funding it. |
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25-05-2011, 07:14 PM | #6 | |||
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She needs to chill out She should just enjoy what she's got.
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25-05-2011, 07:34 PM | #7 | ||
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She has valid points but I think she'd be screaming even more if she was at the lower end of the earnings in the UK too. She'd see how difficult things are already and how much worse is to come.
Most,in fact the vast majority of UK citizens would love to be in her position financially. |
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25-05-2011, 08:25 PM | #8 | ||
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Poor thing will have to scrape by its a hard life only getting paid Ł4 million pounds after tax.
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25-05-2011, 09:06 PM | #9 | ||
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I.Love.Her
I agree with everything she says |
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25-05-2011, 09:08 PM | #10 | |||
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Given that she's paying Ł4mill I think she has a damn right to have a little moan! Its not like she does it constantly. Just making a point that her millions are not going to good use.
For that amount of money she should be able to shoot a politician of her choice Just coz she's rich and famous it doesn't mean she can't still have an opinion about politics and how her millions in taxes are spent. |
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25-05-2011, 09:24 PM | #11 | |||
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I like Adele's music but this has really put me off her, she just comes across as arrogant and greedy if you ask me |
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25-05-2011, 09:38 PM | #12 | |||
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The money is put to good use....
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25-05-2011, 10:16 PM | #13 | |||
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what you're actually saying is she doesn't have a right to voice an opinion about her taxes or how its spent. Well she does! Huge earners like her could easily take their millions elsewhere and keep 90% of it through various clever investments. But instead she stays here and gives millions to the UK system. And you want to begrudge her one little moan about it? Yeah thats really fair. and she doesn't need fickle fans either. |
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25-05-2011, 10:41 PM | #14 | |||
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I dont have a problem with her giving her opinion, my problem is that she expressed in an obnoxious manner & that her opinion is basically bollocks, because our schools are not sh*t and the trains are not always late. And even if they were sh*t, I suppose her not being taxed as much would help would it? And LOL I'm hardly fickle, but it annoys me when people who are excessively rich start moaning about high taxes, like they're being unfairly targeted or something. |
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25-05-2011, 11:36 PM | #15 | |||
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Bottom line is she had a moan about taxes just like everybody else does. Get over it. And youre dangerously close to sounding like some socialist hater of the rich. Heavily taxing rich people just scares them away and then our economy and public services lose out on millions. Just because somebody can afford to pay over 50% tax it doesn't mean its always fair to take that much. Theyre putting in far more than they get back out. Nobody could blame them for saving themselves millions by investing overseas. Most would, including those who get high n mighty about rich people paying heavy taxes. |
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25-05-2011, 11:45 PM | #16 | |||
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I dont hate the rich, I hate it when they moan about a progressive tax system though. I'm not even sure I support the 50% tax rate, I do in principle but yes it creates a powerful disincentive and if it's not beneficial there's no point in it. In theory though, I dont think it's unreasonable to have a 50% rate, especially not when she is earning Ł8,000,000, most would kill to be in her position right now. |
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26-05-2011, 12:10 AM | #17 | |||
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I think she has a point that we are still in a kind of a poor state and the tax she is paying is not going to good use but that's the same for all our taxes.
You earn more.. you should pay more. She still has at least a few million quid which is tax free in the bank.... |
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26-05-2011, 12:14 AM | #18 | |||
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well obviously. But a much higher percentage rate is more on top of more. If she paid 20% tax it would still be a damn sight more than 98% of people.
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26-05-2011, 03:12 AM | #19 | |||
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26-05-2011, 07:27 AM | #20 | |||
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she pays a damn sight more than most and is entitled to moan about how taxpayers money is spent just like the rest of us. |
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26-05-2011, 12:25 PM | #21 | |||
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Adele is a great singer. It's a bit rich to take a swipe at the country because she has to pay tax, though. Once her accountants have worked her bill over she probably pays less, as a percentage, than most people on 25k a year.
If she was a little older and a little wiser, she'd understand that the best way to change the things she's moaning about is investment. That means taxing people. It's simple, really. I disagree with the people whio think she has a right to moan because she is a taxpayer. She only has a right to moan if she's a voter and didn't use her vote. |
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26-05-2011, 04:11 PM | #22 | |||
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If this was a banker complaining, or a politician would anyone care? Of course not, they'd condemn them for their greed, it's just because Adele is a successful music artist with a good voice that people defend her. I realise that 50% is a lot to tax but she still keeps Ł4,000,000 of her earnings, lets have a bit of perspective here, any one whos taxed less would swap positions with her in a heartbeat. And I never said I've been put off her music, I said I've been put off her; she could at least back up her criticism, or worded it in a constructive way but she didnt, she's just come off as arrogant & greedy, looks like she's facing a backlash over it now and rightly so. Last edited by MTVN; 26-05-2011 at 04:13 PM. |
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26-05-2011, 05:24 PM | #23 | ||
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She's got a valid point, I hope the people bashing her are always happy to pay taxes and think that the money does go to perfect use because she's only saying what I hear everyone else moaning about otherwise you're a hypocrite. The fact she's rich shouldn't really come into the argument as she still pays the same taxes as everyone else just on a larger scale. People have a right to an opinion, just because you are envious of their paypacket doesn't make it less so.
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26-05-2011, 05:30 PM | #24 | |||
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Moaning bitch. She's lucky she gets paid at all for her mediocre shite that passes for 'music'. Still, there is a grain of truth in what she said for two reasons.
For one, billions of taxpayers money is going to be wasted on handing the NHS over to private enterprise, money is wasted on City Academies and yet more billions are wasted EVERY year subsidising our godawful privatised railways. Corporation tax is scandalously low compared to income tax so there is an element of unfairness in the sense that her record company will be paying a small fraction of the tax that she is. That is to say if they're not tax dodgers.
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26-05-2011, 05:33 PM | #25 | |||
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musi...tax-grievances - Good article on the subject
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