Nice to know we're all in it together.

Posted by: TomK on 19 February 2011

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/18/20...-guests-a56114e.html

And I dare say that after managing to avoid billions in tax Barclays will be chipping in with a special toaster and breakfast set.

Yes, nice to know we're sharing the burden.
Posted on: 21 February 2011 by naim_nymph

It's not only Barclays, there are thousands of British companies who have registered their firms to foreign countries so they can forgo paying UK corporation tax, and more do so every year.

Apparently the practice has been going on since the 1950’s but it was small fry back then, nowadays it usually includes the directors of companies not having a salaried wage but payment in shares options instead from the company profits, these shares are considerably higher than a salaried wage and do not have to be declared to the Inland Revenue, and after getting cashed into an offshore bank account this payment will only incur the tax-haven rate of tax which may be as low as 2%

So while us mugs in the UK slog our guts out working for an ever decreasing salary which is often taxed by PAYE, and a pension like a carrot on a stick that moves years away as we age, the offshore banking classes are reaping huge bonuses and big share payouts and paying nothing at all to the UK.

However, The Tory Bankers Party Government have very quickly responded to this greedy development by cutting out the very jobs in the Inland Revenue that used to examine and track down Companies that flouted British tax laws with Corporation Tax avoidance.

An estimate last year was put at £200 Billion UK Pounds of unpaid tax money leaving the UK every single year, this will surely go up now the Tories Millionaires Mobster Outfit men are sitting around the cabinet table, don’t forget they have offshore accounts too!

We are all in this together!

It’s sad but true - they’re getting rich by robbing us.

Debs

Posted on: 21 February 2011 by Paper Plane
With the Tories in power 'twas ever thus, sadly.

Makes you wonder why "we" voted for them...

steve
Posted on: 21 February 2011 by fasterbyelan
Originally Posted by Paper Plane:
With the Tories in power 'twas ever thus, sadly.

Makes you wonder why "we" voted for them...

steve
You can exclude me from the "we" , this lot quite frankly haven't got a clue about the 'real' people of this land.  Could it have something to do with them all being stinking rich...............

I/We have never voted for them and never will, I'd rather spoon my own kidney's out with a blunt spatula!

The Simpson's
Posted on: 21 February 2011 by Bananahead
It's nice here in Switzerland.
Posted on: 22 February 2011 by OscillateWildly
We need Labour councils to commission more overpriced works of art for council estates, because they understand people and how to manage money. Though they do get fat cat union leaders.

Regards,
OW
Posted on: 25 February 2011 by Svetty
Have this Government changed the tax rules regarding Corporation tax etc that the last Labour government put in place and presided over since 1997? 

If we as a country have uncompetitive tax rates we only have ourselves to blame!
Posted on: 26 February 2011 by Stephen Tate
We need an uprising!

Where is Bob?  Gonna stick on some Tuff gong classics!!
Posted on: 26 February 2011 by backfromoz
so just how did the Labour Party do over the last several years?????

I have forgotten the successes already.

Mind you been in aus last 4 years and the Labour Party there are a success too. Even with a Welsh Woman in charge.

David
Posted on: 26 February 2011 by BigH47
Rule 1 We are all in this together.

Rule 2 We are all in this together.

Rule 3 We are all in this together.

As told to us by people the cuts won't affect at all. 
Posted on: 26 February 2011 by backfromoz
reduce the burden of the nanny state.

scrap welfare except for tax payers.

reduce taxation giving more of your hard earned for you to spend.

The rich will get richer

The middle classes will rise out of a tax burdened poverty.

The poor and feckless will retreat to their ghettos and murder each other.

Then we can have a true modern world as per many other societies..
hang on i missed out indentured labour.

I have always been right wing (wealth creation) but with a social conscience.

I do believe in free education and free health care at point of delivery.
as per 1948

But some of the excesses of today have basically bankrupted us.

The dole should be based on the minimum wage, so that those in work on the minimum wage are not disadvantaged compared to those on benefits. HO HUM.

David
Posted on: 26 February 2011 by George Fredrik
The dole should be based on the minimum wage, so that those in work on the minimum wage are not disadvantaged compared to those on benefits.

A very sane idea.

ATB from George
Posted on: 01 March 2011 by Exiled Highlander
When I pay my taxes I must admit that I do not spend hours or days trying to figure out how to pay more than I am due to pay.  Why should companies be different?  All this righteous indignation - has anyone broken the law?  Or is it just fashionable to take a swipe at the banks?

Jim
Posted on: 01 March 2011 by Bananahead
Originally Posted by Exiled Highlander:
When I pay my taxes I must admit that I do not spend hours or days trying to figure out how to pay more than I am due to pay.  Why should companies be different?  All this righteous indignation - has anyone broken the law?  Or is it just fashionable to take a swipe at the banks?

Jim

This
Posted on: 02 March 2011 by OscillateWildly
It's fashionable to take a swipe at the banks because people don't want to look at themselves.

Cheers,
OW