Guido Fawkes
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MPs Quietly Increase Unreceipted Expenses By 25%
The post Expensegate updated “Green Book” of rules for MPs for expense claiming written essentially by MPs, for the benefit of MPs is front-paged on the Telegraph this morning. Surprise, surprise they have upped the amount they can pocket in cash, tax free, without the need for receipts from £400 a month to £500 a month for“subsistence”. A benefit worth over £9,000-a-year if they paid tax on it. They of course don’t. Troughers like Tom Watson and Alan Duncan all took the full amount available in the past for “subsistence”“. Will they dare do it again? Guido will be watching… cont
Thursday, 30 July 2009
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