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Date: 29 October 2007 17:00:27
I once went to switzerland for a day on business. It's the only time that i've managed to set foot in the country. However I saw the inside of Zurich Airport for a few hours while I took part in a meeting and then had a few hours in a bank in Geneva. After my meeting at the bank I decided to get something to eat. The only place open at 3:30 on a Friday afternoon was Pizza Hut.
On my flight home I sat next to a Brit who worked in Bern. He told me that he flew elsewhere in Europe at least 2 weekends a month because Switzerland was so boring. The pay and work was great but the placed closed down around 21:00hrs every night, weekends included.
Today i found out that the great Brit hope for F1 is moving to switzerland to live. Just 24 hours after his hometown announced that they were naming a road after him, Lewis Hamilton announced his departure for the Land of the Cuckoo Clock. Maybe it was because Asda decided that his exclusive parking space at the Stevenage store had to go....
He complains that he is fed up with media intrusion and people talking to him in the street; personally I think its because of the lower income tax rate. When you're earning Xmillion every year you don't want to lose any to tax do you? After all, he only had a state education; used NHS hospitals; used public transport and the road network. Why should he feel that he needs to give anything back?
Meanwhile the average wage for senior UK executives is now £3million per annum. They also do everything possible to minimise their tax burden. Maybe that's why the rest of us have to pay so much!!