Not plain sailing
Saw my MP yesterday who is on the Finance Committee and Labour. She was supremely negative about the issue. Said it was probably just a probing amendment that would not see the light of day. If it did she would vote as she was told by the party. She was also critical of one of her colleagues who is a signatory on the joint letter to Osborne saying he was speaking out of turn from his position in the Shadow Cabinet. She said our only chance was ECHR (which of course needs no involvement from our own politicians) No interest in the HMRC misleading her own party nor the question of retrospective law-making - everything over-ridden by the convenient 'moral' position of avoidance = tax dodging = those bad people = political expedience
I'm very close to another lobbying scenario and I've got to say when you see politics and politicians up close and having a direct impact on your life and livelihood it throws a very depressing light on the nature of our democracy and rule of law.
i can't get away from the shortsightedness of these people. Conservatively there are 2000 of us providing key technology services to the UK economy - assuming now we're all working through limited companies - on an average year we will contribute £40m to the Exchequer in VAT and £80m in income tax, year in, year out. Some of us will have companies with employees. We then spend the rest and generate other income in the economy. Bankrupt us, we can't work, we can't be directors, our skills, experience and talent is removed from the UK economy. Consider how many column inches are devoted to Quantitative Easing - our politicians here are seizing the opportunity to do the opposite.
Saw my MP yesterday who is on the Finance Committee and Labour. She was supremely negative about the issue. Said it was probably just a probing amendment that would not see the light of day. If it did she would vote as she was told by the party. She was also critical of one of her colleagues who is a signatory on the joint letter to Osborne saying he was speaking out of turn from his position in the Shadow Cabinet. She said our only chance was ECHR (which of course needs no involvement from our own politicians) No interest in the HMRC misleading her own party nor the question of retrospective law-making - everything over-ridden by the convenient 'moral' position of avoidance = tax dodging = those bad people = political expedience
I'm very close to another lobbying scenario and I've got to say when you see politics and politicians up close and having a direct impact on your life and livelihood it throws a very depressing light on the nature of our democracy and rule of law.
i can't get away from the shortsightedness of these people. Conservatively there are 2000 of us providing key technology services to the UK economy - assuming now we're all working through limited companies - on an average year we will contribute £40m to the Exchequer in VAT and £80m in income tax, year in, year out. Some of us will have companies with employees. We then spend the rest and generate other income in the economy. Bankrupt us, we can't work, we can't be directors, our skills, experience and talent is removed from the UK economy. Consider how many column inches are devoted to Quantitative Easing - our politicians here are seizing the opportunity to do the opposite.
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