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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Megs is over it in mid-to-late March 2019. She’s not going to fake her way through the summer. That ego boost she’s had since September 2017 is going to go away. Yes, I’m sure she’ll still plan on making herself as famous as possible, but she won’t see the same gains she’s had since September 2017 after March 2019.
I’m not sure I believe that they were told to leave early. I think they left early voluntarily. I think Charles would want his younger son there as long as possible.
I suspect Megs would want to leave early because it’s not about her, and she’s not into celebrating other people when she can’t be the star. Harry has to leave because his wife wants to leave.
Yeah, I don’t understand why she wanted to go to Northwestern either. I would never have guessed. Guess she wanted to get out of the LA area? Otherwise, I have no idea. It’s a good school though.
That’s almost a year to get things finalized. I don’t think it will take that long. A few months, sure. But almost a year? I don’t think so. That makes the divorce process almost as long as the marriage.
Although, once they announce that the marriage is over publicly, it’s game over for them as far as I’m concerned. Paperwork is just paperwork. I’ll be very over H&M’s epic tale of DUMB once it’s announced to be o-v-e-r.
I don’t think it’ll last until 2020. I think that’s far too long.
But then there’s all sorts of shit that is supposed to go down next year: new Roman Catholic church scandal, the Pope dying or possibly being assassinated, severe flooding somewhere in the world next spring, more forest fires, political violence in the US, another housing market crash, etc.
Mercury is retrograde now until December 6th. I’m still curious to see if that is going to bring anything to the forefront publicly for Harry and Megs. Kind of hard to see how it won’t given that there is a personal assistant on the loose with the ability to be an unnamed “source” in plenty of articles. Still feel like I’m waiting for the next shoe to drop any day now…
I’m from the US, so yeah, I know that college is expensive. I seem to recall reading a rumor that Megs paid off her student loans once she got the Suits gig. So I expect that she must have paid for some of it herself. However, I do think that her father probably gave her some money to help pay for everything. Northwestern is a very expensive school, so I doubt she did it solely by herself.
Christmas at Sandringham is for members of the royal family and the Queen’s relatives. Meghan wasn’t even officially a royal last year, and her being there was considered too early by many people. Kate spent her last Christmas before her wedding–but after her engagement–with her family. If Megs missed her mom that much, then she should have had Christmas with her mom in LA instead. Instead, Megs wanted the photo ops of being with the royals as soon as possible.
The Middletons don’t attend Sandringham at Christmas, and their eldest grandchild–George–will be king one day. So Doria attending Sandringham at any Christmas is out of the question.
I’m sure Megs wants it to look like she’s close to her mom, but there aren’t any opportunities for her to pull that stunt again, like she did with the cookbook. Megs isn’t going to be given any future engagements where she can bring her mom along. The UK media isn’t going to publish pap pictures of the two out for a walk together due to pressure from the royal family. So she’s got Sandringham left as her only option, and we can all bet that the Queen is going to say no on that one.
I suspect Megs is working the refs (Queen, Philip & Charles) to get them to allow her mother to be there. I don’t believe Doria is going to be there. I suspect Doria probably doesn’t want to be there either. But Megs feels she has to keep her names in the headlines, and she had her first Christmas at Sandringham last year with her poo emoji hat. She’s running out of things that will create headlines since she’s burned through all the “firsts” already.
I’d be very surprised if it did happen though. Like, the only way to prove it would be if Doria attended church with the family on Christmas Day, and I can’t see that happening.
LOL. I’m not surprised. Nothing is Meghan’s fault in Lainey’s world except for bellycupping.
Nothing is ever Meghan’s fault. It’s just everyone else that is fighting. LOL! She’s just trying to get her mom to visit her at Sandringham this Christmas. *eyeroll*
After reading that, I’m practically convinced that there will be a new article about Meg’s behind-the-scenes behavior that will drop this weekend. It’s almost as if they’re planning on it with the “victim” angle of competing courts. Somehow, this didn’t really happen when Andrew married Fergie with the “competing courts” claim, of course, because it’s not true.
Harry’s court isn’t going to be so “senior” given that he can’t get his wife to walk without clutching her barely-there bump. They’re getting sentenced to “Siberia,” which Lainey didn’t even comment on. Can’t say I’m surprised about that because Lainey didn’t cover the royal Remembrance outings this past weekend. She can’t write glowing words about Megs not being on the balcony together with the future queens, or sitting next to the curtains at the concert. I thought that Lainey not doing a write-up about that at the beginning of the week was a glaring omission. And not an accidental one.
But which story? I still haven’t been able to find it.
Anyway, here’s a video of Megs bellycupping–specifically, the mons pubis bellycupping–in New Zealand. It looks even more ridiculous in action than single photos.
I tried looking for that USA Today article and couldn’t find it.
But yeah, the tiara story isn’t a good indicator for her press articles. I’m still wondering if something is going to drop this weekend since Melissa the PA left.
Yeah, I’m with you. I don’t get it either. I don’t think Doria wants to go. Why would you want to go to Sandringham if you don’t have to? I’ve always heard the schedule is tight, and you have to dress up for events. Why do that when you can stay at home in California in your comfortable clothes?
I feel like it’s an interesting read, but it also seems be written to appeal to what a particular audience wants to hear, which is why I don’t believe it 100%.
Mercury goes retrograde at the end of this week (Fri/Sat). I’m more curious how that is going to play out given that there is a newly, unemployed staff member that will probably give fleet street some nice “palace source” quotes for a few articles. I always tend to think of Mercury retrograde as a “stress point” because a lot of people tend to get stressed during those periods. So, I’m curious to see what could be the possible causes of stress.
Other than that, offhand, I would say March 2019 will be “critical,” but I haven’t really looked because I don’t have time. And probably won’t until either the end of the year or the beginning of next year.
Exactly! It never ceases to amaze me that the sugars/Markle stans always think no one should exist to burst their bubble. No wonder everyone thinks they’re either 12 or teenagers.
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