Thursday, May 14, 2009
Short and curlies!
BBC 'News': Short mortgage claim 'excessive'
All these false mortgage claims for second and third properties! Anyone would've thought MPs had a vested interest in the property market.
Posted by paul @ 10:34 PM (376 views) Add Comment
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1. little professor said...
Former Labour Cabinet minister Clare Short was paid more than £8,000 of taxpayers' money to which she was not entitled, the Daily Telegraph has said.
She is said to have been paid the cost of a mortgage between late 2003 and 2006 when only entitled to interest.
The MP told the BBC she made an "honest mistake" and had paid the money back in 2006 as soon as it was brought up.
It comes as the revelations about expenses saw former Labour minister Elliot Morley suspended from the party. Former minister Mr Morley was suspended from the Parliamentary Labour Party after claiming £16,000 expenses for a mortgage he had already paid off.
Mr Morley said the claim had been a "mistake" due to "sloppy accounting" and said he had paid the money back.
2. titaniccaptain said...
Great minds think alike Paul.........looks like we came up with the same headline lol......
http://www.economicvoice.com/blorumpost.php?blorum=1&post=890
3. inbreda said...
funny how all of this sloppy accounting always disdvantages the tax payer while benefiting the MP. So coincidental..
4. mark wadsworth said...
MPs are the ultimate vested interests. That's reason number 237 why we'll never have land value tax - because the very people who would have to implement it would lose a valuable source of tax free income and gains.