[Misc] Notre Dame On Fire

[The Rivet]

Isn't the tax relief on certain high charitable donations running at nearly 90% in France? If so that means every 100m given costs the tax payer 90m. Tried to find out. Anybody know? How does it work, confussed.

 

[Weststander]

Isn't the tax relief on certain high charitable donations running at nearly 90% in France? If so that means every 100m given costs the tax payer 90m. Tried to find out. Anybody know? How does it work, confussed.

Online, it looks like 75%.

So for every €100m pumped in by YSL, it only costs them €25m, the french taxpayer having to cough up the difference.

 

[The Rivet]

Online, it looks like 75%.

So for every €100m pumped in by YSL, it only costs them €25m, the french taxpayer having to cough up the difference.

Thanks for that. So if a billion euros was 'pledged' by billionaires they would pay only a quarter having forced the general tax payer to cough up the rest?

 

[Weststander]

Thanks for that. So if a billion euros was 'pledged' by billionaires they would pay only a quarter having forced the general tax payer to cough up the rest?

With the good guys getting a billion euros worth of fantastic publicity.

 

[The Rivet]

With the good guys getting a billion euros worth of fantastic publicity.

Hmmmmm!

 

[Blue3]

Thanks for that. So if a billion euros was 'pledged' by billionaires they would pay only a quarter having forced the general tax payer to cough up the rest?

Radio 4 news said that Macroon had waved any taxation on any monies given for this appeal.

Over £1 billion the largest ever amount raised for any appeal now that really is impressive larger than any emergency relief fund ever we are a really difficult species us humans we gladly give for a buildings repair while we look away as other humans suffer, I wonder what Jessus would have said rebuild this temple built by kings to house a few bits of flotsam a nail, bit of old wood and a crown of thorns items found some 800 years after the even by Helen mother of the Emperor Constantine while on holiday in Jerusalum and probably just some tourist tat which had absolutely no link to events 800 years before, instead I think Jessus would have far been more likley to have said use the money to feed the poor heal the sick and not to waste it upon human vanity.

 

[BadFish]

Radio 4 news said that Macroon had waved any taxation on any monies given for this appeal.

Over £1 billion the largest ever amount raised for any appeal now that really is impressive larger than any emergency relief fund ever we are a really difficult species us humans we gladly give for a buildings repair while we look away as other humans suffer, I wonder what Jessus would have said rebuild this temple built by kings to house a few bits of flotsam a nail, bit of old wood and a crown of thorns items found some 800 years after the even by Helen mother of the Emperor Constantine while on holiday in Jerusalum and probably just some tourist tat which had absolutely no link to events 800 years before, instead I think Jessus would have far been more likley to have said use the money to feed the poor heal the sick and not to waste it upon human vanity.

A perfect example of the priorities of the rich and powerful. As a species we are doomed. If only they liked people and polar bears as much as Gothic architecture that was built to worship someone with very different priorities.

 

[vegster]

A perfect example of the priorities of the rich and powerful. As a species we are doomed. If only they liked people and polar bears as much as Gothic architecture that was built to worship someone with very different priorities.

This! Sadly Syrian refugees being bombed to hell and living in camps with minimum medicine don't seem to tug the heartstrings of billionaires.

 

[Albion my Albion]

A perfect example of the priorities of the rich and powerful. As a species we are doomed. If only they liked people and polar bears as much as Gothic architecture that was built to worship someone with very different priorities.

I say it's perfectly fine for people to decide where their money is spent. Would you want someone telling you that you must send your money to the Taliban because they are suffering from western aggression?

 

[piersa]

I say it's perfectly fine for people to decide where their money is spent. Would you want someone telling you that you must send your money to Darlington because they are suffering from being Darlington?

Corrected it for you.

 

[Albion my Albion]

Corrected it for you.

Send me money. I'm fine with that.

Cummins-Darlington Payroll
Yarm Road, Darlington DL1 4PW, United Kingdom

 

[colonies man]

All these tears over a building that housed years of abuse of boys.

 

[BadFish]

I say it's perfectly fine for people to decide where their money is spent. Would you want someone telling you that you must send your money to the Taliban because they are suffering from western aggression?

It is absolutely fine for people to decide where their money is spent. That decision, however, speaks volumes about our priorities.

 

[A1X]

What happened in the UK when all those billionaires gave massive sums to help the community in the wake of the Grenfell Tower fire?

Oh, wait, hang on a minute...

 

[BadFish]

What happened in the UK when all those billionaires gave massive sums to help the community in the wake of the Grenfell Tower fire?

Oh, wait, hang on a minute...

Don't be silly that was only people and their lives being destroyed not Gothic architecture.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

What happened in the UK when all those billionaires gave massive sums to help the community in the wake of the Grenfell Tower fire?

Oh, wait, hang on a minute...

Why would French billionaires donate to British families? British billionaires only care about themselves and how much more money they can make and hoard in tax havens.

 

[BadFish]

Why would French billionaires donate to British families? British billionaires only care about themselves and how much more money they can make and hoard in tax havens.

Bloody Brexit.

 

[PTC Gull]

Bloody shit timing, my daughter is in Paris this Easter weekend with her boyfriend for her 21st Birthday and was planning to visit Notre Dame.
Will just have to look from the pavement now, shame.

She must be gutted.......bit like the ND..........I'll get me coat.....

 

[Gregory2Smith1]

my misses has just said (she's french by the way)

anyone would think this country has suffered a tsunami

nobody died,what about the homeless (money pledged and all that)

well

 

[Me Atome]

I'm really impressed by the way the French have dealt with this. Right from the beginning. And perhaps Macron could get some credit? We'd still be arguing about who pays for the rebuild, and planning permission and listed building consent and the health and safety plan.