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rob, Sun 1 Apr 2001, 1:00)
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NoPersonal taxation for most people is PAYE - not much scope for grabbing back billions there I feel. My gripe is businesses running their turnover through offshore accounts and claiming they make no money in the UK so they don't have to pay tax here (Viz Vodaphone, Google, Starbucks etc etc).
Basic question to put to these people - if you make no money here, why are you trading here?
(, Sat 12 Jul 2014, 10:17, 2 replies, latest was 11 years ago)
and"why do you think it's OK to use a country's infrastructure while contributing nothing to the cost of it"
(, Sat 12 Jul 2014, 10:34, Reply)
I haven't owned a thesaurus since my schooldays m8You just assume that everybody else is as thick as you.
(, Sat 12 Jul 2014, 11:27, Reply)
one's legal and the other isn'tlegal doesn't necessarily mean morally right, though. Given who makes the laws, and the revolving door between the Treasury/HMRC and the banks.
(, Sat 12 Jul 2014, 10:41, Reply)
My morals are different to your morals, that is why we have laws. Whether you like the laws or not.(
d.r._and_quinch when will you be famous?, Sat 12 Jul 2014, 10:52,
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so you don't think that it's a healthy thing to have movement of staff between the regulators and the regulated?Interesting.
(, Sat 12 Jul 2014, 11:29, Reply)
OK Dozer, I stand correctedAvoidance should be made impossible, those corporations that wilfully avoid tax don't get to play here.
Tax evaders should be hung. Tax lawyers - hung drawn and quartered.
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