Forrest, a multi millionaire wants to tell us how 2.5 million people should spend their money.
I used to, past tense, respect his achievements, but like everyone with a bit of 'power',
wants to rule how people live. Even in communist countries they could have their vodka and a fag.
Can't have much to do, even with all that money, if he has to stick his nose into other peoples lives.
For some people, the last and only pleasure in THEIR lives, is a fag and a drink.
If he thinks people on the pension can't afford their vices, maybe he and his cronies should
pay a realistic TAX on their money, and then the pensioners would have more available to them.
Go and mind his own business for once, not what others do!
Got stuff all to do with him, and of course he has the ear of some pollies, as they
wouldn't want to be seen as encouraging drinking and smoking by the underprivileged,
as it should only be for the rich or well off.
Another one of many loudmouthed fools.
1% News: Twiggy could dodge tax for 5 more years
Friday, May 4, 2012
Andrew 'Twiggy' Forrest. Twiggy could dodge tax for five more years
Billionaire Australian mining tycoon Andrew Forrest boasted on May 3 that he may pay nothing in tax for the first five years of the federal Labor government’s new Mining Resources Rent Tax (MRRT), which comes into effect in July.
Forrest said his company Fortescue Metals would “pay between zero and $50 million of MRRT some time in the next five years” because the company will qualify for big tax exemptions.
The Canberra Times said Fortescue Metals’ pre-tax profits are expected to “exceed $20 billion in the next five years”.
In April, Mining.com put Forrest’s fortune at $5.8 billion. The Australian Financial Review said in June last year that “Forrest has never signed a corporate income tax cheque for any of the listed companies he has run in the past 16 years”.
