Do any of the big multi-nationals pay tax in the uk?

A look, another thread full of ignorant nincompoops.

Amazons head office is in Luxenbourg, and it pays corporation tax there, it only distributes in the UK, so only pays VAT, council/buisiness tax, income tax and national insurance in the UK. This is not tax avoidance or evasion, it's just paying your tax.

Unless you want UK businesses who sell to europe to also pay corporation tax to the countries they sell to?

hmmm.

If you can't figure out the flaw in that..........

(the same applies to google and starbucks)

Vodafone did not owe any tax, according to the EU court, you can find plenty of detail why, or you can continue to spout ignorant nonsense about VODOFONE AVOID TAX 1111!!.
 
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well I only pay 15% tax, which is perfectly legal, if you want a change in the law, then get it changed, my accountants would not be doing their job if i were paying more.... I and the revenues view is that if I take the risk (recently stuffed for over £14k) then I also reap the rewards.

If you ever thought life was fair, then you are in for a big shock! That's capitalism for you :)
 
well I only pay 15% tax, which is perfectly legal, if you want a change in the law, then get it changed, my accountants would not be doing their job if i were paying more.... I and the revenues view is that if I take the risk (recently stuffed for over £14k) then I also reap the rewards.

If you ever thought life was fair, then you are in for a big shock! That's capitalism for you :)


As a truck driver I want us out of the EE and the Polish sent back home, however as a landlord I want my properties let, although the Roma's are not in my part of the rental bracket they will have a knock on effect and push others in my direction, hopefully! :D :D
 
well I only pay 15% tax, which is perfectly legal, if you want a change in the law, then get it changed, my accountants would not be doing their job if i were paying more.... I and the revenues view is that if I take the risk (recently stuffed for over £14k) then I also reap the rewards.

If you ever thought life was fair, then you are in for a big shock! That's capitalism for you :)


As a truck driver I want us out of the EE and the Polish sent back home, however as a landlord I want my properties let, although the Roma's are not in my part of the rental bracket they will have a knock on effect and push others in my direction, hopefully! :D :D

and that's fair play to you..

unsure whether its entirely right, but then you gotta do what you gotta do.
 
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It's irrelevant how much wealth a "rich" person has earned. Why should any one person pay a hundred times as much as another into the system, when they're actually receiving far less from it in return.
Because they 'earn' a thousand times as much ?

If you disagree with that principle I have no answer.

By the same argument, all prices charged for all products and services should be based on an individual's income.

So, you'd be happy for Tesco's to charge you twice as much for your weekly shop or your tankful of fuel as they'd charge a lay-about on benefits would you?

And BTW, your statistics are completely the wrong way around. In order to be paying a hundred times as much tax as someone on minimum wage (£12,500pa = £612 income tax pa), a person only actually has to be earning 13 times as much - nowhere near the 1000 times you quote (£165,000pa = £60,000 income tax pa).

Add to that the fact that our minimum wage worker could well be getting another £6,000pa in Housing Benefit - plus Tax Credits, Child Benefit etc and they could easily be taking home the equivalent of a £25,000 gross salary. Between 1/6th and 1/7th of the amount earned by someone paying one hundred times as much into the system.

It's no wonder that high earners do everything they can to legally minimise their tax bills - many of them are paying more in a single year than others would do in 2 whole working lifetimes! and they are getting far less in return to boot!
 
It's irrelevant how much wealth a "rich" person has earned. Why should any one person pay a hundred times as much as another into the system, when they're actually receiving far less from it in return.
Because they 'earn' a thousand times as much ?

If you disagree with that principle I have no answer.

By the same argument, all prices charged for all products and services should be based on an individual's income.

So, you'd be happy for Tesco's to charge you twice as much for your weekly shop or your tankful of fuel as they'd charge a lay-about on benefits would you?

And BTW, your statistics are completely the wrong way around. In order to be paying a hundred times as much tax as someone on minimum wage (£12,500pa = £612 income tax pa), a person only actually has to be earning 13 times as much - nowhere near the 1000 times you quote (£165,000pa = £60,000 income tax pa).

Add to that the fact that our minimum wage worker could well be getting another £6,000pa in Housing Benefit - plus Tax Credits, Child Benefit etc and they could easily be taking home the equivalent of a £25,000 gross salary. Between 1/6th and 1/7th of the amount earned by someone paying one hundred times as much into the system.

It's no wonder that high earners do everything they can to legally minimise their tax bills - many of them are paying more in a single year than others would do in 2 whole working lifetimes! and they are getting far less in return to boot!

Nope, we all pay the same, its capitalism, don't like it vote against it.

not entirely sure i like it, but there you go, i can't change the world.
 
But that's just the point, we don't all pay the same - far from it.

Those who pay the most in get the least out, that's closer to communism than it is to capitalism.
 
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