Excl: Dan Snyder, the billionaire owner of the Washington NFL team, asked IMAX to build him a private IMAX movie theatre... on his superyacht.
It cost an additional $3m.
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Rowan Williams demands the government impose a wealth tax on the super-rich to help tackle “spiralling inequality”, which he said was “deeply damaging to our collective morale and trust”.
@ChuActTaxJust
.
@sajidjavid
has today ordered the extradition of
@TheVijayMallya
Indian multimillionaire and former Force India F1 team owner over allegations of £1bn fraud.
Philip Green:
-Arcadia is in trouble with £500m pension blackhole
-Jobs will be lost and stores closed
-Green family have taken £1.4bn dividends
This is what happened when
@RupertNeate
tracked Green down to his Monaco hideaway
The company that operates the pipeline leaking oil into Poole harbour is owned & run by a multibillionaire amateur racing driver who owns 46 sports cars including a £12m McLaren F1 GTR
Today he’s posting about his cars. No apology or mention of oil leak
@TheVijayMallya
Hi Vijay, I'm a reporter for the Guardian in London. Have you got more of a statement? rupert.neate
@theguardian
.com 020 3353 2175 thanks
King Charles III personally owns 321 private houses and cottages near his Sandringham palace - and half of a load of other people’s gardens.
@MaeveMCC
and I went to meet some of his tenants
Listening to Jane's story was the hardest thing I've done all year. Please read it.
"Jane had stopped eating in order to scratch together enough money to feed her children. It shows."
Thanks, and massive respect, to
@DeniseBentley_
and
@firstlovefdn
“Ratcliffe has donated money to a local charitable endeavour”
When reporter attempted to join the club they were told “admission requirements” include paying a £25,000 joining fee followed by annual membership fees of £6,000.
In February when politicians were raging at Jeff Fairburn for his "obscene" £75m bonus he promised to give a "substantial proportion" to charity.
10 months on he still hasn't.
Amazon EU Sarl (which owns but is based in Luxembourg) made so much money and has so few staff - that it works out at rate of €8.4m income PER EMPLOYEE
“People love this. You get the same sort of tax savings you get in Jersey [and other tax havens] but you get to live somewhere you actually want to live.”
The global super-rich are moving to Italy, to pay max tax of €100k
Tower Hamlets ruled against the proposed residential tower development because it would “harm the long-term provision of a nightclub that serves the LGBT+ community”.
'When I discovered the fetish scene at Backstreet as an 18-year-old, it saved my life'
Wanted: an animal-loving billionaire who might consider buying 1,993 threatened white rhinos instead of a new superyacht or a Picasso, or a Picasso onboard a superyacht.
Quite liked that intro
- UK's best-paid boss Jeff Fairburn of Persimmon sacked cos his £75m bonus is a "distraction", says board.
- Board replaces him with a deputy who they gave a £40m bonus.
So that's a lot less distracting...
Govt accused of introducing a “simply staggering, huge tax cut for richer households” that will leave “the super-wealthy laughing all the way to the actual bank”
The UK's richest person - Jim Ratcliffe - is being investigated for using a charity to build a £16m "exclusive.. members only" ski lodge in Courchevel. - by me
An Irish subsidiary of
@Microsoft
made $315bn profit last year (almost as much as Ireland's entire GDP).
The company has zero staff. And paid zero tax, as it is "a tax resident in Bermuda".
Hard Brexit-backing billionaire Sir James Dyson moves his company to Singapore.
Other firms start stockpiling everything from Bentleys to laptops and even cat and dog food in case of no deal chaos.
One CEO describes Brexit as "the killer" of profits and jobs.