dsr-burnley

Yes. Everyone bar the Dodgers themselves, and the Cubs. (And even some of the Cubs are pleased.)

Nowhere near the demise? I wish I could be so confident. The club is £150m in debt, all used to fund Alan Pace's personal liabilities (he has bought Espanyol as well as Burnley), and has a hugely bloated (32 players, 7 of whom had to be left out of the 25, plus some loans), apparently useless squad. Have you won a home game in the last year? We haven't. If you offered a swap of owners, your man for ours, I would take it.

And now the Brewers have swept the Dodgers, it's more than a week to when the World Series starts. Almost makes me wish we had lost one or two, just so I'd have something to watch.

Well, one Blue Jays fan. And he isn't celebrating a Blue Jays win, at that.

He was suspended last night under Italian bookings rules.

Which is the second reason Burnley have signed him. as of yesterday we didn't have anyone who could (a) score goals, or (b) give 200% - and expect his teammates to do the same. Ashley Barnes is the only other option, but although he's "only" 36, he plays a bit older than Vardy and he's injured at present.

Unlikey, I would have thought. I would have thought that about half the people ever to inhabit the earth didn't live long enough to get killed by mosquitos. Link?

The Brewers just had a great time in the windy city.

I don't get that. If you pay £50k to have a depreciating asset that is worth £30k in 4 years' time, is that really so much worse than paying £20k to lease it and having no car at all in 4 years' time? My own preference is to buy second hand, with the result that my total capital outlay has been £22k for 40 years driving. But I wouldn't say anyone was an idiot for buying or leasing a £50k car; I would just say they have different priorities on how to spend their money.

I don't understand your first paragraph. (Obviously I understand the chatGPT bit, but all that proves is that you have a very high opinion of yourself and you know diddly squat about me.) Why do you think that the sale of residential properties does not bring about a taxable gain for overseas companies? How do you structure assets to be "ATED compliant" - isn't that like trying to structure assets so that they are Council Tax compliant? The tax is payable on properties over £500k owned by foreign landlords. You overestimate the difficulties of being a landlord. It may or may not be beyond you, but there are hundreds of thousands of non-specialists who manage to get by.

If you're saying that you can avoid CGT by forming an offshore company and therefore paying Corporation Tax on the gains, that's a bit bogus really. But apart from that, we both know that all residential property, even when owned by non-UK residents, is subject to UK CGT rules and has been since 2015. I accept that it's possible to dodge IHT by setting up a blind family trust in a friendly tax haven, but it's complex and expensive and not within the remit of the standard small landlord who are the government's target. I thought a "happy clapper" was a football fan who supports his team through thick and thin and doesn't get upset when they lose? What relevance has it to landlords, please?

Is that what you think because you have known landlords and understand how they work, or is that what you think because of prejudice? An individual can't avoid inheritance tax by incorporating, and if they already have the property there will be a CGT cost on incorporation that might scupper the whole idea. Those extra taxes don't "just push the case to incorporate", they give large advantages to big overseas companies.

Tax breaks. Individual landlords pay a 2% surcharge on profits, the their mortgage interest expenses are only partly allowable, and they have to pay inheritance tax. Overseas corporates don't have any of those impositions.

It's nice to know that you are so much a better person than the rest of the landlords. Surely if landlords with a conscience are desired, then the government should be encouraging individual landlords and not, as they are actually doing, encouraging overseas corporations to take over the market?

If you're a scourge on society, then perhaps you need to throw your tenants onto the street now, not wait until a convenient moment?