Author: House of Brat

royal-confessions:

“Ever since Meghan has been brought in to the family i’ve noticed that Kate’s confidence has gone through the roof. She carries herself differently, with poise and elegance. She’s now taking on a more senior royal role, and I can already tell that she’s on the path to make a great Queen in the future.” – Submitted by Anonymous

mizzsmack:

Dressed like she grabbed a 60% off special off the rack from last season’s selection of Mother of the Bride dresses, for the Captain’s Dinner on a Carnival cruise ship.

Fucking excruciating.

Wow. Is she trying to do some sort of penance with this outfit??

I do know their system worked in the UK for 5 yrs on an ILR visa. Both the family/spousal visa and the ILR can lead to citizenship (well technically Brits are subjects of the Crown). Spousal visa is a bit easier and is what one would expect from someone marrying a Brit. ILR’s are used for students or people working there. ILR’s can be revoked whereas a spousal visa would not be revoked as long as one remains married. BTW it takes 5 yrs before one can actually apply for citizenship.

Hm. Perhaps it’s the possibility of it being revoked easier? I don’t really get it either. But there have always been visa issues around her ever since the engagement was announced.

https://houseofbrat.tumblr.com/post/170637587599/duchessofostergotlands-blogger-is-pretty-good-with

https://houseofbrat.tumblr.com/post/168518422169/wait-i-though-she-was-in-america-and-couldnt-go

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Just read up on IRL. She does not meet the requirements!!! 3 years minimum in the UK to even be concidered. Come on! Some reporter run with this!!!! Unfortunately, it will make the BRF look bad for blatantly bending the rules for one of their own, but this is ridiculous. Not fair to the people who follow the rules and have to wait years.

I guess they’ll publish a story on it when they don’t fear push back from any of the palaces. 

https://www.gov.uk/browse/visas-immigration

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I think the big news here isn’t any tax ramifications for the BRF but rather that The Express (her UK outlet) is reporting that KP said she had a indefinite leave to remain visa. Now one would expect she’d have a family/spousal visa but if the Express speaks the truth and KP said she has an ILR visa that is very odd. Intriguing even.

https://www.express.co.uk/news/royal/1047070/Meghan-Markle-tax-US-government-Meghan-Markle-citizenship-Meghan-royal-income

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I assume she’s on that kind of visa currently because they’re working on her becoming a British citizen. Otherwise, I don’t really know since I’m not familiar with the UK visa system.

Oh I agree she is not going to jail for tax fraud. I actually think this is the UK tabs keeping the heat on making sure the British public do not care much for her so when she leaves there won’t be sackcloth and ashes and rending of garments. She has the usual star companies to help defray taxes and financial advise. Her financial advisor was at the wedding. So she may get hit with a big tax bill but she is not going to jail for tax evasion.

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eleanorschidis:

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That’s true about the taxes but I think someone leaked the story about her financing. Think about it why would any care about her taxes etc etc UNLESS someone knows exactly what MEgs is revealing or not. I think it might of been a message to Megsy. How many celebs who live in both countries have made the news about their taxes UNLESS something’s messy 🤔

Meh. I’ve never seen a decent article about her finances. I’ve seen speculative articles about her wealth that never took into account her costs such as agent fees, public relations, etc. 

Outlets like the Daily Mail are publishing articles because it’s essentially click bait. The British Royal Family is in a different situation now because one of their members is still a US citizen and has to pay taxes to the US. Fleet Street can publish all sorts of theoretical musings by a number of tax authorities since income taxes in the US are a private affair.

I highly doubt there is any “message” happening in these articles. There really wasn’t much difference in the Daily Mail’s recent article than there was from articles published 6-8 months ago.

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AHPF did an extensive post on MM’s tax issues check her archives it was done pre engagement. And yes, if she was gifted the engagement ring and it is worth more than a certain amount she has to pay tax on it. Gifts are taxable. Same with any “gifted” clothes or jewelry. JM has claimed to have given MM clothes and jewelry so if it passes the threshold it is also taxable. Megsy has financial advisors she knows what her tax situation is.

Yes, gifts can be taxable. However, I doubt that the IRS is going to come after her for the value of her engagement ring. Gifts from a spouse are excluded from the gift tax. 

Yes, I have seen AHPF’s posts. I saw it back when it was originally posted.

The thing is that no one knows exactly what Megs tax situation is. The Daily Mail posts a click-baity article on her tax situation and then people start assuming that she is avoiding paying taxes. No one knows if that is true. People are running with the assumption that merching  = not paying taxes. And no one really knows if that is actually true or not. Megs may have been raised to believe that the IRS has more power than God, and perhaps she always pays her taxes due to that. 

But instead we have articles that point out the new financial territory the BRF is in because Harry married her, and then people go apeshit assuming she’s going to go to jail for tax fraud and avoidance. Sorry. It’s just not true, and no one can prove otherwise. 

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Well if the Harkels have a joint bank accounts then yes, regardless of where in the world MM is she has to pay whatever taxes are due as a US citizen, it also put her in a different tax bracket. PH being a royal doesn’t matter either. Sure she can claim certain things however over a certain amount they have to provide receipts. And I’m talking big money not little things say gifts under $500 for example. She may not be audited this year BUT depends on how honest she is with what is filed.

I don’t understand why people assume that Meg’s merching equals not paying taxes. People really need to re-think why they have come to such conclusions. Merching and tax paying are not mutually exclusive concepts. She merched before she married Harry, yes, but that does not mean she didn’t pay her taxes.

Also, why are people assuming she’ll be audited? There are more than 300+ million people in the US. The IRS only has a certain number of employees, let alone auditors. Getting audited is statistically unlikely, particularly when you consider all the budget cuts the IRS has been subjected to recently.

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/05/11/budget-cuts-shrink-the-irs-and-corporations-are-the-big-winners.html

https://www.cbpp.org/blog/2018-funding-bill-falls-short-for-the-irs

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/01/business/economy/irs-tax-fraud-audit.html

Just because you commit tax fraud does not mean you will automatically get audited. I knew a guy who was his church’s webmaster for their website. You cannot declare a charitable donation for volunteering your time. Guess what he did? He claimed he “donated” webpages and used the value of each webpage as a charitable donation. He claimed thousands of dollars for “webpages” as a charitable donation for multiple years. It was all fraudulent. He did this for more than five years and was not audited. And he was never audited by the IRS as far as I know.

Just because you aren’t completely honest with the IRS, does not mean they are instantly going to come after you when they can’t verify the information. There is a very slim chance that Megs will be audited by the IRS. Even if she is, likely no one will ever know about it. As long as she is a member of the BRF, they will make sure she pays her taxes because they do not want to risk a headline that an HRH is not paying their share of taxes.

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Americans in England don’t have to pay American tax if they are paying English tax. As long as Meghan is paying tax in England, the story about the Americans being after tax money from her is nonsense. It’s interesting the DM published this story though. I wonder when they’ll stop messing around and publish something really damaging? It’s only been it’s here and there – Megsy wanting a tiara, being mean to staff, now the tax thing. I want something big and dramatic lmao this is annoying.

talkingtarot:

I know right. Stop playing with us Daily Mail..we want the bombshell! Lmao. But I do find it interesting there seems to be a negative story about her every other day now which is crazy. The tides are turning, folks.

Generally, Americans always have to file their taxes with the IRS as long as they are citizens. It doesn’t matter if you’re paying taxes to another country such as the UK. 

https://www.irs.gov/individuals/international-taxpayers/expatriation-tax

https://www.irs.gov/individuals/international-taxpayers/us-citizens-and-resident-aliens-abroad

newyorker:

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Read the full story, “The Forest Elephants of the Central African Republic Are in Peril,” here. 

And yet MM’s stans don’t realize that she has to answer to the US IRS for her said “expensive wardrobe”. As a royal, she’s not allowed freebies but her assets may prove otherwise. She cannot claim they were gifts and if she did pay for it, from PC, they will be responsible for US taxes. This girl is “royally delusional” I’m thinking she can bat her eyes into not being able to account for all this money. So, her “5 mil” will be either used to make up for receipts and/or taxes. What excuses then?

There are some things mentioned in that tax article such as having to pay taxes on her engagement ring that are kind of sketchy. I really don’t believe she’ll ever have to pay taxes on her engagement ring even if it is “from a foreign person.” It’s a normal gift.

Some of the other things are harder to prove such as the clothing. If she got a “freebie” regarding her designer clothing but returned it after it was publicly worn, then that would also be harder to claim as income. The IRS isn’t going to pop over to Kensington Palace and verify what is and isn’t in Meg’s closet.

Yes, the article does a good job in pointing out that all of her income poses problems to the royal family, BUT the IRS doesn’t have any legal authority to audit in the UK. So, everything is harder to prove. 

Usually as long as you file and your return doesn’t look unreasonable, the IRS isn’t going to come after you. The IRS is greatly understaffed right now. They’re not going to go after Meghan just because the Daily Mail published an article. 

Anyone hoping for “receipts” regarding her taxes is going to be disappointed since the IRS always does things privately. IRS doesn’t leak things to the press. Articles arguing the theoretical, like this one, will be all you see.

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Sugars trying to defend Meghan’s overspending with ‘brands gift her clothes’ or ‘the clothes are borrowed’ don’t realize that they’re making it worse for her and it also proves they have no clue how the royal rules work and treat royal family as if they were Kardashians with titles. Although I wouldn’t put the gifts and loans past her because she still has the celeb mentality and doesn’t want to at least study the rules.

Exactly!

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They leave everything early when it’s not about Megs. They left Ascot early, they weren’t on Eugenie’s evening reception, at Harry’s family wedding in June they sprinted away right after the service and didn’t even stay for a picture, same with the August wedding where Harry was an usher, didn’t even stay to watch the bride and groom leave.

Exactly! They even left the Queen’s Christmas lunch last year (2017) early. This is why I don’t believe they were sent away. They do it all the damn time. Nothing new. 

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Meghan was like “gotta get a baby soon and tie myself to this forever” plus all the attention she can ring from it now the marriage media blitz is fading… What really annoys me is how people keep saying shit like “Meghan’s shaking up the royals!” Like no, shes a super low ranking royal and is just being pushy and thinking she knows best. Look at Andrew and Fergie… Nobody cares about them now and it’ll be the same for M&H… Watch when Harry’s hair goes the star will fall.

Yup. Harry will retain some of his standing since he is the future king’s brother, just like Margaret did. But he won’t be as popular once George, Charlotte, and Louis grow up.

She must be really close to a breakdown or some kind of epic tantrum considering the “going to give birth to the most famous Royal child that has ever been in years” quote that appeared in Express. (Express being her favorite outlet to leak to.) She’s not giving birth to the heir to the throne, but she can’t deal with the simple fact that she isn’t. 

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If Mm was a multimillionaire, (net worth of 5 million is not) think of all the celebs who are American & live in the UK, have finical advisors already to help will & deal w/ tax issues. Any normal American moving over seas HAS to look into the tax situation. MM assumed she would be taken care of because she’s married to royalty. Neither did their homework nor do I think Mm was honest about her finance situation. One thing is I hope it’ll prove she’s merching. It’s all about receipts.

talkingtarot:

She really didn’t and still doesn’t plan at all for things.

She is slapdash about everything.

#HARKLES │ Feels™ for the RoyAl Fam │PART I : Meghan│ 16th November, 2018

wempresstarot:

As per anon request,
ended up having a gander at what each of the #Harkles currently feel about the #TopCats of the RF. Did some short 3×3 overview spreads, so mostly general
feels. I actually did a spread for each individual pair (i.e. Meg x EP/xCC /xWK), but this post is already so gosh darned LONG so they will have to be axed and
we’ll just use the generals. I’m sure #TT will have way more tea to
fill in all the gaps! 🙂

Anon was particularly
interested in what Meghan felt about
her immediate InLawz®, so let’s
start off with her. The RF #TopCats are defined as: EP (Elizabeth
& Philip), CC (Charles & Camilla) and WK
(Will & Kate).

* BONUS: looking into Meg at Charles’ Birthday bash…

 

HOW DOES MEG GENERALLY FEEL ABOUT HER IMMEDIATE IN-LAWS? (EP, CC & WK)

Devil, 2oSw, Tower │ Magician,
Hermit, WoF │ Strength, 10oW │ 3oP  (TD: 8oW, Sun │ MD: World, 8oSw, Lovers >> 5oW << 6oP, 7oP, Fool │ BD: Star, 6oSw)

Hm. Well. As this is for all of them in general, it’s a
mixed bag of AbsolutelyAbysmal© and ButWhatCanTheyGiveMe?™ Got several “flashes”
of the PoC when I was shuffling, and
then had it pop up around Charles’
spread, together with 6oP, 3oW, Star and
Fool: that PoC is Meghan trying to
be pleasing. -On a surface level. -To whomever is holding the purse strings (6oP) and is in charge of the things she
can do *cough* getawaywith *cough*. #Mercenary  Charles seems to be, in her eyes at least,
the one she can get what she wants from. For now…

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My theory on why MM/PH left early is they were told to. MM/PH LEAK EVERYTHING. Everything they hear and see. The Soho House Amsterdam Bday party (red light district and Douglas Booth), the alleged Monaco royal and surrogate among other things. Think about it how comfortable would Queen Rania feel or Prince Albert and other guest feel knowing EVERYTHING they say and do will be leaked to the media. This is the party MM would have loved to be seen at. No photos. No gossip. No MM/PH.

If they were that worried about her leaking, then why was a play-by-play of the party published in the Daily Mail? I think it’s clear that she didn’t want to be there because she’s not the star that she thinks she is.

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