Rossi agrees to pay tax!

[James Deuce]

He lived in London because he loved the vibe there and he could be more anonymous. Oh, and because he thought it would save him buckets of money in tax.

There have been a substantial number of reports in the bike press ever since the potential scale of Rossi's tax fraud became evident, that he doesn't live in London, has never lived in London, and merely pops over once or twice a month to keep up appearances.

If you want to avoid paying tax, live in Monaco. It's mere minutes from Italy.

[breakaway]

In all the documentaries etc that I've seen, he seems like a down to earth bloke. Good on him

[James Deuce]

If he was Maori and ripped off the NZ Govt for $NZ65 million, you rednecks and hypocrites would be baying for blood.

He was stupid to ever be in the potition of having to pay that much, stupid to keep up the facade of living in London for so long after he was rumbled and double stupid not to have just moved to Monaco like every Motorsport celebrity does as soon as they are making big money.

[Badjelly]

In all the documentaries etc that I've seen, he seems like a down to earth bloke. Good on him

Somewhere on www.crash.net last year (probably the Mike Nicks column) I remember reading that it had been his custom (until the tax avoidance thing came up) to chat with a group of journalists at the end of each day in a very frank way about how the bike was going, how he'd been approaching the course, stuff like that. The only things off bounds were money and his private life. So, like you say, good on him.

[denill]

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