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BBC raids: A look into the broadcaster’s long track record of tax avoidance and unscrupulous financial practices in the UK https://www.opindia.com/2023/02/bbc-raids-the-company-has-a-record-of-unethical-financial-dealings/
BBC was found to have been recruiting long-term employees as contractual workers to avoid income taxes

David Smith, the then BBC’s head of employee tax, had admitted that 25,000 contracts covering roughly 1500 staff had been granted on an off-book, freelancing basis, but he argued that the company abided by the laws. He acknowledged, however, that the BBC was able to reduce its liability in cases where the UK’s tax, payments and customs authority, HMRC determined that the person involved was not a true freelancer due to the usage of so-called service companies, particularly by on-air talent.

BBC had accepted, that 148 of its 467 presenters were employed through personal service companies, despite them often being employed long-term. Their contracts shared characteristics with typical pay-as-you-earn (PAYE) contracts.

https://www.nao.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Investigation-into-the-BBCs-engagement-with-personal-service-companies.pdf

15 February, 2023
Rukma Rathore

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mj8ySTSKVI4 Supreme Court के खिलाफ RSS के अखबार ने ऐसा क्यों लिखा ? BBC पर छापे अभी भी जारी क्यों ?

Tax 'Raids' on BBC Look Like Vendetta, is Russian-Style Intimidation: Lionel Barber, Ex-Editor, FT  https://youtu.be/xAKGte2nV2k?t=102
The Wire Feb 16, 2023 One of Britain’s most highly regarded editors, who served for 15 years as the Editor-in-Chief of the Financial Times, says the tax surveys against BBC offices in Delhi and Mumbai – which many people view as raids – “look like a vendetta” and is “certainly intimidation”. Lionel Barber says that this treatment of the BBC is “reminiscent of the Soviet Union”.

https://youtu.be/EPw6Z10oDmI

This is a very powerful satire on the planned attack on forest department by vested interests.
It says that the Kerala Forest Department is responsible for all the ills faced by people.
It says the KFD is responsible for human animal conflicts. By not constructing China wall around Wayanad, it's helping animals from adjacent forests in Karnataka and Tamil Nadu to cross over. By enforcing the laws of the land like Wildlife Protection Act and FC act, it's responsible for increase in wildlife population.
The KFD is responsible for spreading falsehoods like floods, landslides, climate change etc etc.
The Union government or the Supreme court are not responsible for declaring ESZ around PAs, it again is KFD
The video asks for declaring the KFD officials as vermin and eliminate them.

Wildlife Expert Panel Red-Flags Western Ghat Rail Project Despite Aggressive Push by Karnataka  Ayaskant Das | 11 Feb 2023

The Standing Committee of NBWL has rejected the Hubbali-Ankola rail project through Western Ghats in its present form but has also queried if it can be developed as a double-lined corridor. My latest report for Newsclick https://www.newsclick.in/wildlife-expert-panel-red-flags-western-ghat-rail-project-despite-aggressive-push-karnataka...

In a meeting – the minutes of which were published on January 27 – NBWL members stated that the Railways has taken only its own concerns into consideration in the design of the environment mitigation plan of the project.. activists have raised concerns over the fact that during the aforementioned meeting, deliberations were held amongst NBWL members to consider if at all the project could be developed as a double-lined corridor. “ … the mitigation measures proposed in the project are not sufficient which have been proposed based on railway’s convenience and not by considering the wildlife movement. Therefore, the project proposal is not acceptable in the present form and the proposal requires a lot of modifications,” states the minutes of the Standing Committee’s meeting.