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Title: US diplomats add a moat to their expenses at $1bn London embassy
Category: Uncle Sam
Posted By: commanderkai
Date: 2010-02-26 06:24:41

[GreenTiger]

I didn't see a draw bridge over the moat, I guess that would be a security issue.

[DerbyX]

As long as it keeps the black knight at bay.

[saturn_656]

I want one for my house.

[fifeboy]

A few features to be added later:

[ShepherdsDog]

do they want a dragon too? And will it be defended by the Knights of Nee?

[GreenTiger]

fifeboy fifeboy:

A few features to be added later:

[BartSimpson]

It's not a moat, it's a pond. A moat would surround the building.

I like that the architect is incorporating a Faraday cage into the design, thats pretty clever.

Also there's this little bit of BS:

$1:

It also does not include the 17.5 per cent VAT demanded by the Treasury on all buildings in Britain and which the US has refused to pay.

Under international law an Embassy and the residences of key staff and the property of a head of state are the sovereign soil of the nation to which it belongs. Therefore, the Embassy is NOT in the UK and the US is correct in not having to pay any taxes to any level of government in the UK.

If the Brits wish to dispense with that diplomatic nicety I'm sure that Washington, DC will be pleased to send them a property tax bill and then the Queen can start paying taxes on her vast holdings in Kentucky and Wyoming.

[fifeboy]

BartSimpson BartSimpson:

Under international law an Embassy and the residences of key staff and the property of a head of state are the sovereign soil of the nation to which it belongs. Therefore, the Embassy is NOT in the UK and the US is correct in not having to pay any taxes to any level of government in the UK.

Right you are!

[commanderkai]

BartSimpson BartSimpson:

It's not a moat, it's a pond. A moat would surround the building.

True, but I thought it was a hilarious article, if not totally factual.

[GreenTiger]

BartSimpson BartSimpson:

It's not a moat, it's a pond. A moat would surround the building.

I like that the architect is incorporating a Faraday cage into the design, thats pretty clever.

Also there's this little bit of BS:

$1:

It also does not include the 17.5 per cent VAT demanded by the Treasury on all buildings in Britain and which the US has refused to pay.

Under international law an Embassy and the residences of key staff and the property of a head of state are the sovereign soil of the nation to which it belongs. Therefore, the Embassy is NOT in the UK and the US is correct in not having to pay any taxes to any level of government in the UK.

If the Brits wish to dispense with that diplomatic nicety I'm sure that Washington, DC will be pleased to send them a property tax bill and then the Queen can start paying taxes on her vast holdings in Kentucky and Wyoming.

What ever you want to call it a moat or a pond it still looks infinitly better
than that increadibly ugly thing they put up in front od the American Embassy in
Ottawa. That concrete structure looks uglier than the Berlin Wall was.

[KorbenDeck]

Thats the pond not a moat, its only on one side of the building,I can walk downtown and see stuff like that and its by no means a moat.

[ShepherdsDog]

BartSimpson BartSimpson:

It's not a moat, it's a pond. A moat would surround the building.

I like that the architect is incorporating a Faraday cage into the design, thats pretty clever.

Also there's this little bit of BS:

$1:

It also does not include the 17.5 per cent VAT demanded by the Treasury on all buildings in Britain and which the US has refused to pay.

Under international law an Embassy and the residences of key staff and the property of a head of state are the sovereign soil of the nation to which it belongs. Therefore, the Embassy is NOT in the UK and the US is correct in not having to pay any taxes to any level of government in the UK.

If the Brits wish to dispense with that diplomatic nicety I'm sure that Washington, DC will be pleased to send them a property tax bill and then the Queen can start paying taxes on her vast holdings in Kentucky and Wyoming.

NO TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION!!

Obviously still an unresloved issue between the Americans and the Crown.