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Dave Chaplin - CEO, ContractorCalculator retweeted
Last week I did an interview for ITV, promoting my new live show. In the interview I say that Rupert Lowe has his legal bills paid for by Elon Musk. Rupert Lowe has contacted me to point out that that isn’t the case. Happy to set the record straight and apologise for the error.
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Dave Chaplin - CEO, ContractorCalculator retweeted
Hi again, Charlotte. I'm copying in @HillsboroughSu1 AND @LawHillsborough and @DebatINQUEST here because your message has revealed to me something very important. You seem to genuinely believe that legislators (MPs etc) are included under the Duty of Candour and I assume the Misleading the Public offence? I'm very sorry (and I'm angry about it which is I'm campaigning) but this isn't right. MPs have a carve out (just as the security services wanted before). You are totally correct, and I completely agree with you, that Parliamentary Privilege (Article 9 Bill of Rights) will never be amended and so the new offences could only apply to acts outside of what is said and done in proceedings in Parliament. For me, that's enough. I think that when legislators are speaking on television, the radio, social media, or at events etc outside their Parliaments, they should be held to account under the Misleading the Public offence. At present, they are not. I also think it's completely insane that, in an inquest or an inquiry, if a member of Parliament is called to give evidence, they will not be required legally to abide by the Duty of Candour (whereas nearly everyone else who works for the public will be). It'll be a humiliation of that event and our Parliaments every time that happens. You can see from my attached image of Schedule 2 that they are exempted. As are members of all Parliaments across the UK. If you don't believe me please just read schedule 2 now and you'll see. Link: bills.parliament.uk/publicat… If you still doubt what I'm saying then please see the attached video of me questioning Pete Weatherby KC at a Garden Court Chambers event. He admits on camera that MPs (all legislators) are not included but Ministers are. Even his lawyer colleague didn't know that and apologised for getting it wrong so it's clear most people have no idea. Perhaps let's have a call? The Hillsborough Bill must become law no matter what but if the law makers themselves aren't included then it'll enormously damage public trust in democracy as it'll be seen as hypocritical. Up for a call to discuss? I think all legislators in the UK need to be included for acts outside their Parliaments.
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Dave Chaplin - CEO, ContractorCalculator retweeted
If they really wanted to treat rich British taxpayers as “customers” - they’d have a customer success team who were incentivised to keep them in the country.
🚨NEW: HMRC's letter to wealthy Britons demanding detailed information about their financial arrangements has been revealed
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Dave Chaplin - CEO, ContractorCalculator retweeted
Politicians have written themselves out of the Hillsborough Law. No duty of candour for MPs and peers. No offence either. Sign the petition: execprosec.org/petition/?ref…
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Dave Chaplin - CEO, ContractorCalculator retweeted
Angela Rayner can’t name a single pound of spending that Labour will cut - not one! 🤯 We are £3 trillion in debt, borrowing more just to pay the interest. Get a grip.
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Dave Chaplin - CEO, ContractorCalculator retweeted
There is no way HMRC will make mistakes with or abuse these powers. There is no way 100s or 1000s will unfairly have money taken from their accounts, and then face a state refusing to accept it made a mistake. Thankfully, nothing in British history suggests this will happen.
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Dave Chaplin - CEO, ContractorCalculator retweeted
Britons carry close to the heaviest tax burden since the war — and still the books do not balance.
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Dave Chaplin - CEO, ContractorCalculator retweeted
Show me a man who knows nothing about how business works without telling he knows nothing about how business works
Nope, that’s not how taxes and price works. The price is determined by demand and supply. Companies charge the highest price they can given demand. A tax levied on *profits* does not affect a company’s cost ie supply. Taxes on *windfall* profits (like oil and gas) are the most efficient kind of tax there is.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Corporate profit taxes do not directly shift marginal costs but empirical studies show partial pass-through into higher consumer prices. Windfall taxes on oil and gas have deterred investment and production in practice despite theoretical efficiency on rents. dadun.unav.edu/server/api/cor… ecb.europa.eu/pub/pdf/scpwps… taxfoundation.org/blog/big-oil-p… scottishfinancialreview.com/2025/09/03/win…
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Dave Chaplin - CEO, ContractorCalculator retweeted
It affects their return on investment, which must exceed the cost of capital/passive returns (eg Gilts) If you reduce the return on investment, two things happen: 1. Prices increase to compensate and/or 2. You deter current/future investment.
Nope, that’s not how taxes and price works. The price is determined by demand and supply. Companies charge the highest price they can given demand. A tax levied on *profits* does not affect a company’s cost ie supply. Taxes on *windfall* profits (like oil and gas) are the most efficient kind of tax there is.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Corporate profit taxes do not directly shift marginal costs but empirical studies show partial pass-through into higher consumer prices. Windfall taxes on oil and gas have deterred investment and production in practice despite theoretical efficiency on rents. dadun.unav.edu/server/api/cor… ecb.europa.eu/pub/pdf/scpwps… taxfoundation.org/blog/big-oil-p… scottishfinancialreview.com/2025/09/03/win…
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Dave Chaplin - CEO, ContractorCalculator retweeted
Angela Rayner unable to point to a single area where Burnham govt is willing to cut spending. Says the govt is 'putting billions of pounds into transformational spending' that might one day tame the welfare bill
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Dave Chaplin - CEO, ContractorCalculator retweeted
Ahead of John Healey's first Budget, a reminder that companies don’t pay tax - people do. And that also applies to energy suppliers and to banks. In more technical terms, companies are only legal entities and cannot bear the economic burden of tax themselves. Tax increases are therefore always passed on to real people. Shareholders will bear some of the cost through lower profits and dividends, although many 'ordinary' people own shares through their pension funds. But customers will also pay through higher prices, while employees will face lower wages. Everyone may lose if companies cut jobs and investment or move activity overseas. So, whenever someone says, “companies should pay their fair share” or “tax banks, not workers”, ask them where the money will really come from… 🤔
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Dave Chaplin - CEO, ContractorCalculator retweeted
“Prices are determined by supply and demand.” Cool story. Now explain what determines supply. One thing that socialists fail to understand is that for supply to exist, someone has to commit capital, take on risk and they expect a sufficient return. That return is calculated AFTER tax my guy, just look at any P&L. The mistake that Labour keeps making is that it thinks that incentives don’t matter - that entrepreneurs can take the risk and the government can take the rewards. You raise taxes, they raise prices. If they can’t raise prices they don’t just say cool, no worries, they’ll cut investment, jobs, hold back wage increases - any combination of the three to drive profit. Whichever way you put it, it’s harmful. Some bedtime reading on windfall taxes for you: news.stv.tv/north/oil-firm-a…
Nope, that’s not how taxes and price works. The price is determined by demand and supply. Companies charge the highest price they can given demand. A tax levied on *profits* does not affect a company’s cost ie supply. Taxes on *windfall* profits (like oil and gas) are the most efficient kind of tax there is.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Corporate profit taxes do not directly shift marginal costs but empirical studies show partial pass-through into higher consumer prices. Windfall taxes on oil and gas have deterred investment and production in practice despite theoretical efficiency on rents. dadun.unav.edu/server/api/cor… ecb.europa.eu/pub/pdf/scpwps… taxfoundation.org/blog/big-oil-p… scottishfinancialreview.com/2025/09/03/win…
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Dave Chaplin - CEO, ContractorCalculator retweeted
PRE-BUDGET CHAOS The Treasury Entrepreneurship advisor has quit in advance of the Budget next week, giving a scathing review of govt policy on her way out. "If we truly want economic growth in the UK, we need to stop treating entrepreneurship and innovation as a sideshow".
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Dave Chaplin - CEO, ContractorCalculator retweeted
The Hillsborough Law was supposed to hold public officials accountable for deliberately misleading the public! Only … MPs and peers have EXCLUDED themselves from the new law when acting as public officials! So the people who made the law have ensured the law doesn’t apply to them. Only to the little people. So what’s the point of it?
The House of Lords is about to pass the Hillsborough Law without including themselves. Peers could mislead the public on TV and break no law. Ask me in the comments how you can help.
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Dave Chaplin - CEO, ContractorCalculator retweeted
A jaw dropping doco about #LoanChargeScandal from File On 4 October 2020 Head profiteer Michelle Mone's husband Doug Barrowman It's a tale of tragic suicides, bankruptcies, offshore tax havens with the trails leading back to Barrowman's Knox Group 😡 bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000nl…
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Dave Chaplin - CEO, ContractorCalculator retweeted
Put up tax rates too much, and the amount collected goes down Leftists don’t understand this and think you can just keep putting taxes up and keep getting more money You can’t. People leave. Don’t invest, Don’t bother working or work less Labour doesn’t realise this
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Dave Chaplin - CEO, ContractorCalculator retweeted
The House of Lords is about to pass the Hillsborough Law without including themselves. Peers could mislead the public on TV and break no law. Ask me in the comments how you can help.
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Dave Chaplin - CEO, ContractorCalculator retweeted
Government ministers: yes. MPs: nope. Peers: nope. The Prime Minister is covered. Backbench MPs and peers aren't. Help me change it before it becomes law: share this.
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Dave Chaplin - CEO, ContractorCalculator retweeted
📈Our modern monetary system was set up like this to keep the bond markets going. The bond markets are needed because we refuse to live within our means. 🧨A recipe for disaster. 🪙When money was tied to gold, it held its value. The final link to gold was severed in 1971.
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