XPost: uk.politics.misc, uk.d-i-y, uk.radio.amateur 
 From: gtyr@gmail.com 
  
 "JNugent"  wrote in message 
 news:h0f1n4F6md0U1@mid.individual.net... 
 > On 12/10/2019 23:12, ZakJames wrote: 
 >> 
 >> 
 >> "Joe"  wrote in message 
 >> news:20191012191042.2c873bc4@jresid.jretrading.com... 
 >>> On Sat, 12 Oct 2019 15:07:06 +0100 
 >>> "Dave Plowman (News)"  wrote: 
 >>> 
 >>> 
 >>>> 
 >>>> Wonder what the average UK voter feels about those who have fled the 
 >>>> country to avoid paying taxes being allowed to vote? 
 >>>> 
 >>> 
 >>> Not a problem is it? They're not receiving any public services, 
 >> 
 >> Plenty of them do, particularly the state pension and free health care. 
 > 
 > "Free health care"? You'd have to come back to the UK for that 
  
 Nope, some places have mutual free health care agreements with the UK. 
 Their citizens get to use the NHS for free and UK citizens get to use theirs 
 for free. 
  
 > (and there's nothing wrong with that as far as I'm concerned). 
  
 More fool you if they have chosen to move to a tax haven to avoid 
 paying what they would have paid if they had stayed in the UK. 
  
 > Some countries -  relatively few - provide a service similar to the NHS to 
 > UK citizens, but only because the UK does the same for their citizens. The 
 > UK doesn't pay for it. 
  
 The UK tax dodger citizen still gets free health 
 care there the same as they would in the UK. 
  
 >>> which is the only thing taxes are spent on, isn't it? 
  
 >> Yep, and they get those. 
  
 > How would you go about evading income tax on your UK Retirement Pension 
 > and/or private pension? 
  
 That income isnt taxed in the tax haven. 
  
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