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Don't let the smell fool ya. That's no fish. 
Will Rogers never met me.
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Fine display of grunters in order of decibels. Uuuuh![^]
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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The cooling fan in the PSU of my desktop PC has gone on the fritz, causing the PC to shut down as the PSU overheats. Being a tinkerer and tending towards the green side, I thought I'd buy and fit a replacement 40mm fan from eBay, rather than shelling out for a whole new PSU. (Yes, I know there are some serious capacitors in PSU's - I'll wear rubber gloves)
I found some from China at £1 or less, with free postage. I don't know how they can make money on these, but that's their problem, but I have splashed out £1.75 to get one from the UK
I also found this one[^] - £999.85, though they do offer free postage as well. At that price I would want it personally delivered by a scantily clad maiden!
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Transvestites - Roberts in Disguise!
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It is a tax dodge.
A company owner buys a £1 fan and advertises it on ebay for £1000.
His company buys it for £1000, making him a profit of £999.
This reduces the profit of the company so reducing the tax payable.
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I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave
CCC Link[ ^]
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But Shirley he'd have to declare the £999 capital gains...
Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done.
Drink. Get drunk. Fall over - P O'H
OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DD Ethel Crudacre
I cannot live by bread alone. Bacon and ketchup are needed as well. - Trollslayer
Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often *students*, for heaven's sake - Terry Pratchett
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Yeah, right.
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I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave
CCC Link[ ^]
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It is a bit more complicated. Let's say Company 1 and 2 are in the same holding.
Company 1, in Bahamas, buys a 1€ fan and sells it for 1000€. They make a 999€ profit, which is not taxed (remember, Bahamas).
Company 2, in France, buys a 1000€ fan, which it can resell for, let's say, 5€. This company makes a 995€ loss, on which it does not pay taxes.
The holding, on this transaction, makes a -1-1000+1000+5 = 4€ tax-free profit. Scale that to 1 million fans, and you have made a 4 million profit without paying any tax.
This is how tax havens work.
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverb
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Rage wrote: This is how tax havens work.
I suspect that is also how people go to jail.
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I'll buy it myself. That will f*** them over.
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Surely that has to be an error? if you Google the fan you can get it for as little as £5.00 from Amazon
Lobster Thermidor aux crevettes with a Mornay sauce, served in a Provençale manner with shallots and aubergines, garnished with truffle pate, brandy and a fried egg on top and Spam - Monty Python Spam Sketch
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See Above.
It is a well known trick and HMRC do look into things like this.
I have a friend who is rather high up in the HMRC and he sees all sorts of dodges.
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I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave
CCC Link[ ^]
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Then point him at this e-bay entry before it goes away, hiding the 189,000 that has been laundered.
How much do you want to bet that this particular capitalist is a tory?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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All Capitalist are Tories.
Socialists just tax everyone you till there is nothing left to give.
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I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave
CCC Link[ ^]
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... as you can on eBay
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bugger "a scantily"; I'd want "several un"
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: bugger "a scantily"
Ouch!
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"Google and Facebook have not yet responded to our request for comment on the report"
Yeah, too busy pissing themselves laughing!
Perhaps the people who try to make laws ought really to understand how these new-fangled computers work.
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I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave
CCC Link[ ^]
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They sure know how to work them when they're looking for kiddie porn.
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Hey, you know what? They aren't paying me enough tax either...
 Idiots.
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Quote: Sorry but for legal reasons FaceBook has chosen to not be unavailable in your country.
Please switch to a different country or consider upgrading your government.
(Because ultimately I suspect FaceBook, google etc would block access to their sites by French users before setting a precedent of paying a ridiculous tax like this. If France keeps this up they'll find themselves shut off to the modern world as companies refuse to talk to them anymore.)
The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is SILENCE, the second is LISTENING, the third MEMORY, the forth, PRACTICE and the fifth is TEACHING others!
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"... and thus France lost its chance to be a nation blessed by God."
Quoting one of my sister-in-law's teachers; she went to an elementary school run by a fundamentalist Christian church. The teacher was actually commenting on some historical event where France was less than cooperative with the U.S.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Google will then charge the French government for "Search results" and Facebook can charge for providing "posts from Friends" - or just pull the plug on the French and knock 'em back to the dark ages.
Steve
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I C(++) therefore I am
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your second link doesn't, well, link
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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