It's a straight fight between the ( unelected) Carrie and the ( unelected) Cummings. Pfeffel will choose Carrie if push comes to shove. The alternative will be police called into No10 in the dead of night and. Pfeffel escorted out. Carrie is a big noise in the League Against Cruel Sports. Bet that makes for some interesting conversations over breakfast given the fat owl's enthusiasm for the hunt. Lambert called it right. Popcorn time. Nice we have some entertainment for lockdown.
I have no problem with being asked to pay a little more in tax, to support essential services and repair the hole in public finances. Just so long as everybody contributes, commensurate with their ability to do so. And in particular, so long as companies earning huge profits in the U.K. pay a fair tax contribution in the U.K.
Also got no problem with paying a little more, but as you say the companies earning massive profits also pay their fair share.
You may say that I’m a dreamer. But I’m not the only one... (Probably don’t ask how keen John Lennon was to pay his taxes)
Heard yesterday that the Hants Air ambulance is looking for funds , not run out yet but will start eating into it's reserves soon . HS2 and we are looking for charitable donations for the Air Ambulances Oh and it's 2020 and we have food banks
We're told by the rabid brexitears how powerful the UK economy is and how well it will perform post brexit/CV-19 yet we have a underfunded, understaffed and overstretched health service, similar police and social services. Society relies on charitable institutions to manage how wrong is that?
Unfortunately this seems to be the way of things for now. But I will never stop voting for the people that can make this a reality. It's insane that someone like trump can pay 750 dollars in tax due to perfectly legal loopholes. The exact same thing is going on in this country as well, all you need is a great accountant and a **** load of money. It's not right, and one day it will change if enough people wake up and vote. We can find a way to incentivise businesses, AND make things better for everyone, but the media has everyone believing these things are mutually exclusive.
Ah yes but public services are for the scrounging remainer pinko communist fascist liberal elite funded by Soros. Until they need the services themselves, then they are being denied their rights by the EU Fourth Reich.
Do your mean the bloke in St Georges bar Benidorm who's pension has lost 10% or more and now has to pay health insurance, the one that said "they need us more than we need them"?
It's entirely possible to greatly reduce tax avoidance, but it's not going to be by incentivizing businesses: it's going to be by ensuring that they don't have any option. The first step is a tax covenant between all of the European, erm, soon-to-be-ex-European, and North American/Oceanic countries. That would prevent the bizarre sequence of corporate relations whereby money is passed from one sister company to another in order to minimize taxes paid. The second is for those countries to turn the screw on any small nation that wants to set itself up as a tax haven. Both of those things are entirely possible, it's just that the political will simply isn't there.
But don’t forget the reason for the British press turning on the EU, and spouting lies about it, was because it was bringing in the Anti Tax Avoidance regulation that allows countries to pursue companies that hide their profits abroad. The EU want to do something about this and hopefully will show us that it can be done, but the UK won’t be part of it unfortunately.
Sadly, only the medical staff on the Air Ambulance is funded by the NHS. This is one of the two charities I pay into each month, and although not a huge amount I have been supporting it for 6 years. This petition to debate funding has closed, but it says that a debate is scheduled for this month, if not cancelled again. Edit November last year. Don’t know what the result was, probably ended with off. https://petition.parliament.uk/archived/petitions/259892
