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Mistress shifting
Mistress shifting
There are many reasons to dislike the government's attitude to husband and wife businesses, or so-called income shifting. Liberal Democrat MP John Thurso has come up with another one....
The chancellor graced a treasury committee hearing on the rules , which prevent husband and wife couples setting up complex arrangements to maximise their use of allowances which saw Thurso denouncing the rules as 'a tax break for adultery.'
'If I choose to have a mistress and I manage to keep quiet about it and I make her a director and she does absolutely nothing, there is nothing you can do about it. I can pay my mistress but not my wife,' he said.
That wily old dog Alistair Darling opted to sidestep any potential minefields by trotting out the government's official line. Better to be safe than sorry, eh Darling?
April 16, 2008 | Permalink
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A bakeneko will haunt any household it is kept in, creating ghostly fireballs, menacing sleepers, walking on its hind legs, changing its shape into that of a human, and even devouring its own mistress in order to shapeshift and take her place. When it is finally killed, its body may be as much as five feet in length. It also poses a danger if allowed into a room with a fresh corpse; a cat is believed to be capable of reanimating a body by jumping over it..
Posted by: Abraham | 28 Apr 2008 20:48:16
