 MC "Dunno, we're both very efficient at killing the poor trees" Judging by the number of trees left in the UK we're better at it though . So you're proud that you Italians are killing all the UK trees? 
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I simply wonder why you get involved in discussions about a country you left 30 years ago? 'We' indeed.
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This is absolutely the last time I do this, if you can't be bothered or are incapable of simply reading what is written instead of interpreting it on the basis of your 'dig at all costs' policy I really can't be bothered to waste my time explaining to you.
I said 'humans', Martin Carpenter replied using 'we' meaning 'humans' (if he was replying to my post) and I said 'we' yet again in my next post intending, again, 'humans'. That simple. Read my profile to see what I think about state if you have any doubts.
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So what is your favourite method of tax avoidance? 
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Well I'm a hill-farmer so I pay minimal tax up front, regardless of what I earn. Good if you are earning, crap if you aren't. Then I pay a pittance on the B&B based on the number of guests we have per year.
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So...not much tax followed by even less then? (Best I can do tonight Woozle...weak joke at your expense...) (Thinks...pay minimal tax up front regardless of earnings from farm...OK, I know hill farming anywhere isnt known for its fortune making possibilities, but must be a good wheeze)
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(at least it's humour!!!!!) It took me a while to get to be one but now I am I'm not going to give it up. But really, read subsistence farming for hill farming and you'll have it in perspective. BTW - Italians have been paying 20% tax since I can remember with a short interval when it fell to 18% in the late 90s and have always been about the same for petrol prices as the UK and lower than the UK in average earnings.
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Oh yes...I understand the perspective - did my HND Agriculture in Wales in the 1980s and did a study on the economics of hill farming. Tantamount to business insanity even then. One could double the return on capital just by putting in a post office savings account.
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Business insanity if you want to make success out of it which it's almost impossible to do hence the low tax bracket. So most go hand to mouth farming and supplement legally (or illegally, this is italy after all) with other activities.
Perhaps I could start deer farming. We had a 'herd' of 12 in the field tonight but here the forest is encroaching despite the deer, we need more.
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So, Amanda Knox - did she do it?
And what is "Bunga Bunga"?
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 There's a bit of a hoo-haa about this type of practice in the newspapers, this time it's the Forestry Commission Scotland, whose contractors have been leaving piles of severed heads near the village of Cannich. Perhaps they will want to update their website...
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