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Indeed. I wouldn't run a business like a charity, so why should I donate more to HMRC when I don't need to?
Do Amazon pay tax in the UK?
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Indeed. I wouldn't run a business like a charity, so why should I donate more to HMRC when I don't need to?
Soldato
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Well I think the benefits they bring outweigh that as I said earlier...people they employ, tax that brings in, the spending power it gives those workers which goes into UK economy, the contracts for UK businesses (e.g couriers etc), a platform for small sellers to get access to a massive market etc...plus the VAT on those purchases...to say it is shrinking the UK economy is wrong.
Why do you think UK governments historically has always done what they can to bring big tech companies etc over here? Where Amazon for example open up a depot with 1000s of jobs in an area with decent unemployement, how can that be a bad thing?
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See, this why I'm all for the occupy movements, I'm sorry but why the hell should me and my family get hit for money we don't have and have potential job losses and pension cuts when companies like amazon aren't paying corporation tax to the UK government.
Why should the underfunded, understaffed and poorly paid public sector and UK resident in general get continually reamed so private sector companies can avoid paying tax they could quite easily afford.
Amazon can leave if they really want, it'll be rocky but in the long run will benefit the UK economy.
I tend to buy from second hand market stalls/ charity shops anyway as opposed to amazon/ HMV/ any of them, it's so cheap and theres tonnes of bargains.
Got a mint 1st pressing of Help! in a pawn shop, £3 easily worth £50+ to the right buyer. Got tonnes of amazing CD's for 2-3 quid over the years.
Why should the underfunded, understaffed and poorly paid public sector and UK resident in general get continually reamed so private sector companies can avoid paying tax they could quite easily afford.
Amazon can leave if they really want, it'll be rocky but in the long run will benefit the UK economy.
I tend to buy from second hand market stalls/ charity shops anyway as opposed to amazon/ HMV/ any of them, it's so cheap and theres tonnes of bargains.
Got a mint 1st pressing of Help! in a pawn shop, £3 easily worth £50+ to the right buyer. Got tonnes of amazing CD's for 2-3 quid over the years.
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You make the bold assumption that Amazon should be paying corporation tax but has not. On what income exactly should they have paid corporation tax?
The public sector workers have better benefits/security than private workers, thats why people want to be public workers, the recent strikes over pensions made a lot of headlines but they achived nothing because the are only two options (A) cut the pensions or (B) make people redundant, the isn't enough money to do neither, why should private workers pay for public workers to get a better deal, its nonsense.
No it wouldn't. Your forgetting for every Business based abroad like Amazon the is a UK company doing the same thing.
Cool, everybody should stop buying new things and only buy them second hand, wait...
Haha so to protest against Amazon not paying corporation tax you buy from sources where next to nothing gets paid in taxes?
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Following on from the mention of the financial services industries and the relatively low levels of corporation tax in the UK, can Britain really market itself as the Switzerland of the EU, whilst also remaining within the EU? Would Merkozy allow this to happen?
I feel that France should step down as the head of the EU and kill themselves. Well maybe not kill themselves, but definitely step down and submit to the natural British role as the head of the EU.
Empire, Victoria, rah rah rah....
I feel that France should step down as the head of the EU and kill themselves. Well maybe not kill themselves, but definitely step down and submit to the natural British role as the head of the EU.
Empire, Victoria, rah rah rah....
Tories don't seem to be worried about all the civil servants facing similar future I doubt they would have any worries about 100K military losing their jobs either
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In fact since most charity shops ask you to sign a giftaid register they get to claim back your income tax at 25% too.
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Tories don't seem to be worried about all the civil servants facing similar future I doubt they would have any worries about 100K military losing their jobs either
No? I thought they were suggesting increasing pension contributions and extending the working life of civil servants to alleviate the redundancies that would otherwise occur across the public sector.
Unless you mean the handful of civil servants who are getting juicy redundancy pay offs fom civillian MoD jobs. The few I know were queuing up to take VR.
What's killing british retail is the fact that the shops are only open during work hours which means there is no oppertunity to actually buy anything from them. A high street shop cannot compete on price with the internet, so they must compete on service, their failure to do this has led to their demise.
Or just scrap all (or most) benefits and not allow ANY immigrants in. Job done
No child support = dont have a child, personally i thought this would be obvious. I cant afford to have a child, so wont have one until I can
Stop aids spreading in places like Africa = stop getting ****** without a rubber. People are stupid
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Loving the people in this thread who are whining about Amazons business model. Every single thing on Amazon can be had in traditional outlets at around 10-20% more.
Wonder how many of the whiners are going to get off their fat arses to buy their stuff from the highstreet in future ?
Wonder how many of the whiners are going to get off their fat arses to buy their stuff from the highstreet in future ?
And stand blinking in dumb confusion as the multi-nationals leave for other countries because they can no longer move their people around as they need to do.
You've just unemployed tens of thousands of people and destroyed our service sector.
Nice work.
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Well.....check this out.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-16278699
It seems HRMC have been specially lenient on big cooperations on tax. Contrary to what people are saying that taxes are too high and driving big businesses out of the country.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-16278699
It seems HRMC have been specially lenient on big cooperations on tax. Contrary to what people are saying that taxes are too high and driving big businesses out of the country.
Why would people leave. I meant just dont allow any more people in
Even if people did leave, taking away peoples benefits would force them to get jobs in whatever area they could. If not they would be homeless and food-less
What are you talking about ? The multi nationals would leave because they when they could not get people with the skills they need locally they would not be able to import them. These companies work on a global basis. Any country that does not allow them to do this is excluding itself from the world economy. Some immigration has to be allowed.
