Investing corporation tax in stocks/gold?

[pjclarke]

You can not earn more than about 2-3% without significant risk

Erm, 5% over 2 years is 2-3%.

[jonson]

I see the Bank of Cyprus do a 1.76% offering
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HA! RBS will be going that way soon

[northernladuk]

In my mind I can't get over the point that investing money to make money is a business activity and is therefore done with the company money. That then means it would be natural (in my mind) to not use tax mans money to do it. It isn't yours to use to invest. Does that make sense to anyone?

Just makes me uncomfortable thinking of schemes to use this money for anything more than sitting in a business account accruing some interest before I pay it to the tax man. Maybe I am being short sighted here and 'missing a trick' but after seeing enough threads about people needing to pay their personal money in to their company to be able to pay their co's tax/vat liabilities I have become a bit anal about it. When it is due I pay it fairly promptly rather than hanging on to it until the last minute just to make a few 10's of pounds profit (that is taxed).