cdeez

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by cdeez 1y ago
Australia has a "good" system for this (or fair system) - when you leave the country you either choose to pay CGT based on the value at that date, or Australia has a claim on the assets when you eventually sell. Source -> http
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by cdeez 7y ago
Yes this makes me very sad too. If you add the natural gas, iron ore, gold, etc we should be sitting on enough to run the country indefinitely. Instead the government is crying poor slashing services and selling off public assets. We have
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by cdeez 8y ago
This is because they have reduced staff numbers with the introduction of e-gates, so there is less flexibility to process peak queues. The KPIs are also very generous, 45 minutes is too long. As an Aussie this pisses me off entering the UK
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by cdeez 8y ago
You forget the multi level sales scheme that has everyone dreaming of becoming a partner and living the good life. Similar to a startup you are taking lower pay to build value-less equity in the hope you will get to the top and cash out.
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by cdeez 8y ago
Last time I looked into this this most suits are settled quietly out of court, at levels covered by very good professional insurance. Who is actually going to raise the suit? Not so easy to pull together investors / debtors of very la
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by cdeez 8y ago
I was amazed with the Aussie approach to implementing this as putting it on the merchants who are unlikely to be AU tax payers is impossible. It is designed to be unenforceable. We still have your exact system in the UK (and rest of EU?) i