Scotch Independence - the countdown

CT will go down?

It's a yes from this bear then

 

George Galloway wrote the "lowering corporation tax" is a bad thing one. Dunno who wrote the "corporate tax would have to go up" one.

It was just funny that they were literally two pages apart - both predicted opposite monetary policies but both said it would be bad for the low paid.

 

It's only a bad thing for the State in that tax receipts will "theoretically" go down. (Though if you lower tax, sometimes the side effect is that tax receipts go up).

Salmond is on record as saying CT will come down to 15% or thereabouts. That only benefits businesses.

 

^^^^^

Take political advice from Oirish people, they always get it right.

 

He said Belfast and that's a British city

 

It will be one happy family soon enough.

 

or people who have tax avoidance schemes in place

dirty bastards

 

I work for one of the banks that is re-domiciling.

Already knew about it before the papers latched onto it.

I do the budget forecasts in my work and we're going to be hiring more people than ever come Jan and Feb (over 110 heads - most in one swoop for a few years) - the bank has to be domiciled in the country that it serves the majority of its customers in to be a retail bank (investment and other banks can base themselves anywhere I think).

There's no jobs going to be lost in this place - yet a couple of papers tried to tell me my job was under threat.

I've checked the salary for my job in London - you're talking nearly 7 figures and about double what I'm on - if Standard Life (the ones who are threatening to leave all the time) do actually go down South, it'll need to be somewhere in the North because they could not pay in the South East what they pay even in Edinburgh.

 

To be honest, if I were a caber tossing, skirt wearing, haggis munching Jock I would probably vote aye. But I'm not so I urge you all to vote nay.

 

De ye, aye?

 

Young shipbuilders have penned a letter to First Minister Alex Salmond expressing their "grave concerns" about the future of their industry if Scotland becomes independent.

Nae more boats.

 

Everycunt on this site is a millionaire apart from ST and Toby.

Both are veggies.

Here endeth the lessthon

 

I know a BAE lad who's jumped ship )) from no to yes

 

Footballer David Beckham has also backed the "No" campaign, urging a vote to renew the UK's "historic bond".

That should do the trick.

 

Their UK retail arm has to be registered in the UK - their international HQ is in Hong Kong, I think.

...and I added an extra zero by mistake....

Malta offers itself as a domicile country but, as far as I know, you can register investment and international banking wherever you like.

Your retail bank doesn't HAVE to be in the country it serves as a majority but it is a point in the banking code which, in theory, is voluntary. Each bank gets a BIC/CO number and they're coded dependant on their base country.

 

No wonder the banks went tits up.

 

True story.

I got asked to update a report on the number of insurance add ons we sell and what income they generate - the big operational manager had done it and been presenting it back to the board.

I had a look and he had represented 18% of something by multiplying it by 1.8 instead of 0.18.

I then had to explain why my numbers were so much lower than big boss guys.