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St.Lucifer wrote:Heard from a very high level source that Dubai Govt is gonna impose taxes on salaries for people above a certain salary scale.
Concord wrote:St.Lucifer wrote:Heard from a very high level source that Dubai Govt is gonna impose taxes on salaries for people above a certain salary scale.
Well, I already pay taxes on my salary (lucky me!!!!!!).
Chocoholic wrote:Hmmmm then they're going to have to regulate the costs of everything else. I can't see people standing for that, many will leave over night as it just won't be worth staying here anymore.
St.Lucifer wrote:Chocoholic wrote:Hmmmm then they're going to have to regulate the costs of everything else. I can't see people standing for that, many will leave over night as it just won't be worth staying here anymore.
Unless the tax news is posted on April 1st. Happy Fools day.
^ian^ wrote:St.Lucifer wrote:Chocoholic wrote:Hmmmm then they're going to have to regulate the costs of everything else. I can't see people standing for that, many will leave over night as it just won't be worth staying here anymore.
Unless the tax news is posted on April 1st. Happy Fools day.
Really... I think you should have gone to more effort... like a fake news announcement etc. All this can be done.
I pulled a great one today which shows true application to the nature of a joke. Unfortunately I cannot share as it's a little too close to the where I work
St.Lucifer wrote:Chocoholic wrote:Hmmmm then they're going to have to regulate the costs of everything else. I can't see people standing for that, many will leave over night as it just won't be worth staying here anymore.
Unless the tax news is posted on April 1st. Happy Fools day.
traveller wrote:Arniegang et al,
This is amazing ! This is MEANT to be an international forum on the WORLD-WIDE web, yet you are behaving like a petulant extremely rude clique on here ,as if it were a PRIVATE club for you and your mates!
Talk about one-eyed bias. It is incredible !
XPclone...Who the hell do you think you're calling an oddball? You are the most uncouth,ignorant person I have ever come across on the internet. Do you use the internet to vent your frustrations on strangers , because you have to bite your tongue amongst your Arab bosses?
Actually , I had seen two sister sites earlier , when I entered "dubai gold souk" and "visit dubai" into Google.
"dubai gold souk" search brought up visit-uae.co.uk in 30th position on Google.com, but 4th on Google UK.
Then a simple "gold souk" search showed visit-uae.co.uk very high on Google UK.
Then ,searching "visit dubai" found visit-dubai.co.uk at 3rd on Google UK and 4th on Google.com.
I got mixed up as to where I saw "dubai gold souk",but the reason is simple. visit-dubai.co.uk and visit-uae.co.uk are twin linked sites, with similar sub-sites.
So ,arniegang, you will find "gold souk" and "dubai gold souk" very high on visit-uae.co.uk , but you WON'T find many web-sites of the shops WITHIN the gold souk. They don't seem to be into the internet, probably because they are used to people haggling face-to-face for their goods, instead of selling something at a fixed price on the internet.. However, they could , at least SHOWCASE their jewellery on a web-site ,like all the other jewellery shops world-wide that use the internet.
To be without a web-site is to be completely behind the times.
By the way, XP clone, the guy you are calling an odd-ball happens to be a millionaire running three businesses! The freelance newspaper writing is a part-time exercise.
I had a 4 page article in the Mail on Sunday a few years ago,for which I was paid £9000 [taxed of course,like in all normal countries]
I feel a good article coming on, with my experience on here!!
traveller wrote:Arniegang,
No Jumeirah Holdings. I've been in their offices in the twin towers, or dual towers, in Sheikh Zayed Road, for your information. You cannot even spell Jumeirah. Don't tell me it can also be spelt Jumeira, because that is not even what you have written.
If you want to check it out, put " visit jumeirah" into Google.