Alf, Wordsworth and the Tax Dodgers of The Golden Mile!

Today I was like William Wordsworth after doing my bit for the Irish Red Cross - ‘I wandered lonely as a cloud’ - so to speak into Douglas for a little retail therapy and then drifted back to Peel via a call up West Baldwin to see if things were really so bad in the reservoir as ‘Popeye’ and the MUA are predicting.

I’m was in an agreeable frame of mind. Its autumnal in the Isle of Man I can almost be persuaded to sign up to the ‘Year of Our Island’ whatever that is. Home and beverage in hand I’m just congratulating myself that a relaxed day probably puts a couple of days on my life when suddenly I read this about Alf and Guffogg wanting to help me out with my tax and immediately I lose the will to live:

https://www.facebook.com/crowndependencypoliticalnews/posts/203126154356...

I want Alf Cannan MHK to get on with ensuring that those people and businesses that are dodging their rightful tax by ‘tax planning’ and the ‘expenses culture’ start coughing up. Get off your butt ALF! Why doesn’t Moulton ask him about such things its tax dodgers who are pariahs not social media!

Alf not only wants to tax poor old elderly folk like me to the hilt but he wants me to reduce his Departments overheads by doing it all for him online. Pigs will fly.

Coincidentally I then see a video on one of the Irish alternative sites which illustrates how banks dodge paying a proper rate of tax but are making record profits:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3mBUhSn6y8

‘Please god tell me it doesn’t happen here! In fact tell me Alf that you are doing something to make your ‘Chamber of Vulture’ chums pay their way instead of GIVING THEM OUR MONEY.

Back to Wordsworth:

‘For oft, when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with anger fills,
And thoughts of business enjoying tax frills’.

(With apologies to William Wordsworth)

Bernard Moffatt