Abolish VAT. indirect taxation is unfair on the poor. Replace the revenue with higher corporation tax on companies turning over more than £10m

( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Wed 26 Jun 2013, 10:11, 3 replies, latest was 12 years ago)

who will just find a way to avoid it or slowly move operations abroad...

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Wed 26 Jun 2013, 10:13, Reply)

I don't know where I read this BUT
apparently if corporation tax was fully paid, they'd be able to ditch VAT and cut income tax.
( Kroney, Wed 26 Jun 2013, 10:13, Reply)

It's a shit tax, because it's a tax on profits.
And if corporations are good at anything it's arseing about with their profits.
(PsychoChomp, Wed 26 Jun 2013, 10:20, Reply)

well, except if you didn't tax profits
what would you tax?
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Wed 26 Jun 2013, 10:29, Reply)

No idea...

(PsychoChomp, Wed 26 Jun 2013, 10:33, Reply)

fucking water coolers.
that's what
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Wed 26 Jun 2013, 10:37, Reply)

we have a tap that does boiliing water, cold and fizzy water in one
I want one at home
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Wed 26 Jun 2013, 10:40, Reply)

mmmmm
Hot, fizzy tea
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Wed 26 Jun 2013, 11:17, Reply)

it's mostly "fully" paid
insofar as companies are extremely good at pretending they don't have profits.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Wed 26 Jun 2013, 10:26, Reply)

It's working as designed.
Just designed shit.
(PsychoChomp, Wed 26 Jun 2013, 10:28, Reply)

I'm not intending it to be taking as a serious post because I can't remember anything about it
it's really just a sideline. But yeah, I was meaning in the "if corporations paid the tax they're meant to by the spirit of the law, rather than the exact wording". Obviously they're not going to if they can get away with it, who would?
( Kroney, Wed 26 Jun 2013, 10:29, Reply)

al

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Wed 26 Jun 2013, 10:30, Reply)

I suspect he acts in order to be holier-than-thou
rather than becoming holier-than-thou because of his actions, if you understand me.
( Kroney, Wed 26 Jun 2013, 10:32, Reply)

i do not

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Wed 26 Jun 2013, 10:48, Reply)

totes, man. like, totes.

( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Wed 26 Jun 2013, 10:36, Reply)

But it's so much easier to blame really really poor people.

( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Wed 26 Jun 2013, 10:49, Reply)

this is because they smell bad

( rachelswipe with a fork, Wed 26 Jun 2013, 11:01, Reply)

They smell of newsprint 'cus thats about as close to them as I get.

( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Wed 26 Jun 2013, 11:12, Reply)

They're spending all our tax money on their benefits
They're sitting on big piles of money at the end of the month, not just holding it for less than a week before sending it off to landlords/energy companies/supermarkets.
(PsychoChomp, Wed 26 Jun 2013, 11:38, Reply)

Disclaimer I could be completely wrong here
But wasn't VAT introduced to help fund the Crimean War? (or something similar)

Edit sorry that was Income tax and Napoleonic war (I was pretty far from the mark there)
(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Wed 26 Jun 2013, 10:16, Reply)

You're thinking of income tax
and the Napoleonic wars.
( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Wed 26 Jun 2013, 10:19, Reply)

And I'm thinking of Andrew Marr, apparently.

( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Wed 26 Jun 2013, 10:20, Reply)

still its early eh

(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Wed 26 Jun 2013, 10:22, Reply)

I think you're thinking of carpet tacks
and the geordie wor.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Wed 26 Jun 2013, 10:24, Reply)