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24 dezembro 2012

Always look on the bright side of life...

Rir é o melhor remédio

Natal

Árvores de Natal



Inspirada na série Doctor Who




PIB, inflação e desemprego



Custos Anuais do Papai Noel

An accounting firm has come up with a number for how much Santa's entire operation costs each year.

Fonte: CNN

O Papai Noel burla o Fisco?

Do blog "Boring is Optional"

I am indebted to that satirical and very funny tax sage, Murphy Richards, of the Justice for Taxes Network for inspiring this festive blog post. He has noted the following in his tweets:
Being mythical puts Santa outside the scope of UK taxes. It may be legal but it is immoral and therefore it is illegal and Father Christmas is a tax evader.
This lead others to comment:
@BrownsAccounts: Hodge #PAC questions Father Xmas re #tax #avoidance, deliberately creating losses by giving things away

@jmalitrg: Being Laplander and non-dom and spending so little time in UK chimneys he has no perm establishment so he is ok

@jmalitrg: A General Anti Abuse of Rudolf (GAAR) provision will catch him.....
Addendum
The front cover of Private Eye's Christmas edition follows a similar theme. Maybe it inspired Murphy Richards. It shows Santa flying across the sky in his sledge with the now ubiquitous ill-informed illogical commentators saying what they think: