More civil disobedience in Oxford Street

Tefal said:
all tax complaints can be summed up as this.

"anyone who earns more than me should pay more, I should pay less"
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I think those who earn more than me should pay more tax. I think I should pay more tax. I think those who earn less than me should pay less tax.

Von Smallhausen said:
I am not of that mindset though. I have never been a one who yells that the rich should pay more given that they shoulder a huge chunk of income tax revenue to start with let alone business taxes.

If I were a businessman and in a position to do so then I would take advantage of a syatem where I could pay less tax legally.
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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/money/tax/article2461295.ece

In the UK in 2005-6, the top 1% earning households paid 31% of their income in tax, compared with an average 35% for everyone else. For the lowest 10% of earners, 44% of income goes on tax. So who is shouldering the highest burden of tax here?

Yes, yes we all know tax avoidance is all perfectly legal. What we're saying however is that it's not necessarily moral. These people are avoiding paying billions essentially by "living" in one country and exploiting the gaps between legal systems. Can anyone explain to me just how it's possible for a man to live in a different country to his wife? Normally I'd say there were marital problems involved, but obviously not or she'd choose someone else to run his company. The law needs to be tightened up.
 
I feel pretty indifferent to the whole thing. But I'm delighted that the student body is starting to find its voice. The coalition (that I neither support nor oppose) needs to know that there will be very strong opposition from elements of the population to any unfair policies it comes out with. We need this for the next couple of years until Labour get up and running again.
 
scorza said:
I think those who earn more than me should pay more tax. I think I should pay more tax. I think those who earn less than me should pay less tax.
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Excellent, so will you be writing a big fat donation cheque every year to the government?
 
They clearly weren't that smart, considering Philip Green's Arcadia Group is a little further down the road at The Plaza. If they did it on a weekday, they could have probably trapped him in and protested at him.

I suppose there isn't the loss of money to a store though.

I do wonder how many of those student types protesting also shop at Topshop... double standards.
 
I hope they get their wish, and a bunch of companies simply leave the UK like they are leaving California and take the jobs with them. Talk about killing the golden goose. Or maybe that's what they want? A government controlled economy like the Soviet Union? Idiots.

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I never got a job from a POOR person.
 
OldCoals said:
I wonder if the protesters will be booking a flight on a carrier other than Virgin to protest. ;)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11919248
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No doubt you're about to enlighten us as to why a US company buying a British company, then moving it to Switzerland is great for the country and how we need companies like the plastic-cheese makers doing this sort of thing.
 
OldCoals said:
Maybe the UK should look at the rate of Corporation Tax it currently has?
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Maybe the EU should look at why it allows free trade with uncooperative tax havens.

The problem with what you're suggesting is that we'll make our corporation tax the lowest in Europe, until someone else decides to be the lowest in Europe - then all the jobs that your business friendly approach created will disappear overnight, look at what happened to Ireland.
 
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