Nice solution to solving tax avoidance schemes here

[Zero Liability]

Or by being as efficient and useful as Amazon.

Spend less -> tax less -> stop whining about people "avoiding" tax based on rules you (the govt) wrote, based on money you spent with bugger-all input from most people whom you're taxing.

There, a nice solution to tax avoidance. They created this horribly complex system that we must all abide by, they can live with one of its consequences. Or they can spend less, reform it to be less of a tangled web and least pretend to tax on the basis of the cost of whatever services the govt holds a monopoly over to provide, rather than this utter tosh of an "income" tax and an "earnings" tax, and a billion other taxes to go with them, to cover whatever spending takes their fancy.

The Governments have to settle this by being tough with those that exploit the system or rewrite the system so they get enough tax. However the likely result is just that the Government will have to spend less and tax the middle more.

They do this anyway.

[vetran]

Don't you think a big banner on adverts from multinationals showing the amount of tax paid would encourage some decision making....

You stopped buying from eBay, Amazon etc based on their tax affairs? Thought not neither has anyone else in significant numbers.

Just as despite recycling and fitting Led lights I can do sod all for the planet while China are opening a coal fired power station a week.

The Governments have to settle this by being tough with those that exploit the system or rewrite the system so they get enough tax. However the likely result is just that the Government will have to spend less and tax the middle more.

[eek]

Not sure Sir Philip Green,Sir Richard Branson or sir Bono etc. will really care.

I suspect working with them individually (There are 275,000 paying 50% tax) to convince them to relocate their cash in the UK would make more sense. However if they see big multinationals get away with paying little or no tax they might not be keen.

Don't you think a big banner on adverts from multinationals showing the amount of tax paid would encourage some decision making....

[vetran]

Not sure Sir Philip Green,Sir Richard Branson or sir Bono etc. will really care.

I suspect working with them individually (There are 275,000 paying 50% tax) to convince them to relocate their cash in the UK would make more sense. However if they see big multinationals get away with paying little or no tax they might not be keen.

[SpontaneousOrder]

Sounds crappy to me. No offence intended.

but also to favoured treatment in dealing with government agencies.

Can anyone say fascism?

[SpontaneousOrder]

If that were an incentive then people would already be paying that amount to charity. it's the same thing.

** I can't read th elink though **

** oh.. i can if i take the s off the https **

[eek]

https://medium.com/p/de757e33556c

if its tl;dr the short version is give awards and preference to those who pay the most tax. Those willingly paying tax get verifiable awards to highlight the amount willingly paid...