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Part of me wonders if the people complaining about you avoiding import duties are just as concerned about say, Amazon's tax avoidance? As much as they are about your potential miniscule duty payment of a few hundred quid? I bet they still buy stuff from them without a second thought, and then try and pull the hypocritical moral high ground cos HMRC miss out on a few quid. Ridiculous, if I could do it, I certainly would.
The yard is nothing but a fence, the sun just hurts my eyes...
paying no tax is only for the likes of Amazon, Starbucks, Vodaphone and those other small timers.
It's not like you're ever going to see anything from that.
After all, Harold Shipman murdered over 200 people and no-one here did anything to stop him. Does that make it hypocritical for any of us to say murder is wrong?
Plus if Howard came to you first a la the OP and said "Hey Sporky, do you think I'd be batshit crazy if I start knocking off all these old people mate?" "No one will miss em, what's a bit of morphine between friends?" Then it would be the same, in the instance you're referring to you're comparing apples with oranges.
Edit: Of course there is nothing wrong with pointing out the blindingly obvious to the OP that avoiding HMRC is naughty, (which I'm sure he would've been aware of). Some of you have been offering helpful advice in a friendly way, but others not so much, they were the hypocrites really. The ones who were so absolute in their damnation of the OP.
The yard is nothing but a fence, the sun just hurts my eyes...
You're allowed to dislike more than one thing. Both Amazon's avoidance of corporation tax and people in construction doing cash jobs and not claiming about 75% of their income are both bad. Deliberately setting out to cheat the HMRC and trying to formulate a grand plan in order to achieve it is not great either, even if it is way down the list on the scale of things. Worse than taking too much duty free sangria back from Benidorm through but not as bad as being a serial killer.
Been uploading old tracks I recorded ages ago and hopefully some new noodles here.
I've done this twice - flying from Belfast to NYC to collect guitars. Flights were £170 return with Norwegian Airlines which made it a no brainer. Take a capo, old set of strings and some plectrums .. throw them in the case along with a strap and customs would be none the wiser if they ever stopped you.
Also the bizarre idea that anyone who's ever done anything naughty is not allowed to express an opinion on other people doing anything naughty.
Or the suggestion that anyone who has ever acted not-in-keeping with their principles (with no allowance for nuance, context or change of opinion) may not express any opinion. By that metric no-one should ever say anything, including that suggestion itself.
All of these come across as attempts to shut down opposing viewpoints out-of-hand. I'm not saying that's the intention, but it's the logical/ridiculous conclusion.
FWIW, I'm just thinking out loud, not condemning or criticising anyone.
It cannot make economic sense to shop in the US or else we would all do it. The only rational reason to go is if the guitar is so special that it is worth the additional time and expense. Only the OP can decide that. Or, if you happen to be on a business trip, paid for by your employer, and you manage to shoehorn in some shopping.
it is an interesting thing, how some 'thinking out loud' has turned into an economic and moral discussion requiring the input of lawyers, psychologists and moral philosophers.
(Yes, I know I have added to it)
Because if everyone acted that way we'd be screwed.
I say this as someone who has had a history of seesawing from the lofty morals of the purest of the pure to those of a feral alleycat.
Been uploading old tracks I recorded ages ago and hopefully some new noodles here.
The yard is nothing but a fence, the sun just hurts my eyes...