Well, I don't know whats the matter with you two, standy/ron, but you dont seem to be speaking from a position of any factual knowledge of this at all.
Far from cashing in on someones hard work (however did you invent a bizarre idea like that?) BALPA have employed the same city accountant's firm to check this out as was used to get the shares paid gross to EVERYONE, MEMBERS AND NON MEMBERS ALIKE in the first place. (instead of having £11M's worth of their own hard work purloined by others...) and they have just published a 7 page statement which gives the tax situation chapter and verse, including full details of how to enter it into your tax return form yourself.
Said statement is now on its way to all members, so I'll not give any more detail here as you two are probably not members as seems likely from your mean-spirited and dog-in-a-manger attitude.
Collective tax affairs are very much part of BALPA's remit, as is any collective action to better the members; and often, as described above, a large numbers of non members too - the great majority of whom were office or ground staff and cabin crew. You two carry on with your individual approach by all means. May I assume that your conciences do not allow you to accept any benefits brought into your lives by the action of organizations to which you have not paid membership fees.
Anyone who has paid the IR bill already will find advice in the memo too. Members in reciept of Go share money who do not get this memo from BALPA had best contact them direct.
Thanks to BALPA for some very substantial work to the great benefit of members in this matter.
(And damn the begrudgers)
Last edited by the boy John; 16th January 2004 at 06:59.