now don't get me wrong, I don't necessarily they should have been allowed to claim for all the things they were allowed to claim for, although I do think that some was justified.
But the fact is, they were allowed to claim these expenses, so they did so, legitimately. And I think that anyone told they could claim for things as part of their job would do the same.
Now I think that expenses should have been reviewed and what MP's can and can't claim for should have been changed. But I can see why they are annoyed at being told to pay back retrospective payments for things they weren't actually wrong for claiming at the time.
People switching second homes to avoid tax/claiming mortgages that had already been paid etc is of course another matter and should IMO be being dealt with in court.
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wannaBe · 14/10/2009 09:22
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