Nah. A guy who's going from quite rich to flat broke can get pretty despondent. Maybe he thought he'd ruined all their lives and embarrassed them or whatnot, and that they'd be better off dead.
[quote]Well given that they have surveilance video of him walking around with a rifle, I don't think there can be much doubt it was a classic murder/suicide./quote]
Ursus: no; why would I be? I've spent a couple of years self employed and the first thing I ever did whenever I paid a cheque in was to immediately transfer about 33% of its value straight into the tax account. Meant I had to tighten my belt at times but I never had to get the .22 rifle out, y'know?
Would never have thought otherwise as far as you are concerned, but running up seven digit tax liabilities seems to be par for the course for mismanaged football clubs in Britain.
This particular case seems to be one of the guy using the company's resources to fund his increasingly bling lifestyle, and stiffing the taxman in order to do so (at least for a while).
Well "mismanaged" is the word there, innit? Why would I make any excuses for mismanaged football clubs? I'm an AFC Wimbledon supporter. We haven't been mismanaged for a good two years now...
This particular case seems to be one of the guy using the company's resources to fund his increasingly bling lifestyle, and stiffing the taxman in order to do so (at least for a while).
so, yeah, like I said, how dim and careless do you have to be to get into that situation?
How dim and careless do you have to be to owe the taxman 800 grand?
Very.
But, to be fair, in most cases, just hopelessly ambitious. Most limited companies that get wound up are ones where they know they've got a tax bill of a certain amount looming at a date in the future (ie the next date they have to pay Corporation Tax) but even if they've set it aside originally, gamble on using it to fund expansion or what have you in the meantime, hoping that when HMRC's inspectors come knocking they'll actually have doubled up.
The inspectors turn up and the gamble's gone wrong, the money's not there any more. Jail ensues. I'd leave them out in stocks for the mercy of small children with branding irons and the creatures that prowl at night. Small business "collapses" cost every single one of us a fortune, because we pay the taxes they've pissed away. All of which never gets repaid to us, because it's gone on the scum's foreign holiday, house extension and new car.
Nah. A guy who's going from quite rich to flat broke can get pretty despondent. Maybe he thought he'd ruined all their lives and embarrassed them or whatnot, and that they'd be better off dead.
Well, according to the shrink they had on Radio 5 last night, he said this bore the hallmarks of a classic case of "I'm the focal and controlling point of the family. Without me providing and being top dog, we are nothing and so there is no reason for us to exist" and so out comes the rifle. To which I can only say, what a fucking cunt of a human being. Shooting your 15 year old daughter and your wife just because your business has gone bust. The business which you have apparently been found to have been asset stripping.
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