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The Great Man

Ian_Davies said:
Fair play to anyone who stays put and pays more tax as a result.

And you can't blame anyone who instead chooses to be a tax exile.

It's the law that's at fault.

People who make money off the back of British (or, in Ireland, Irish) workers and by selling their goods to British (or, in Ireland, Irish) consumers shouldn't be allowed to take money thus gained out of the country, those who attempt to do so should find their assets frozen, they should be stripped of their citizenship before being deported penniless and indeed the first, say, ten to attempt it should be burned alive on terrestrial TV in a new regular Saturday night series in a prime time slot and hosted by Walsworth and Megan Nicholls in the UK and in Ireland by Slim and whichever female Irish racing broadcast journalist he's upset most in the last year.

I guarantee the super wealthy's enthusiasm for contributing to the public sectors in the jurisdictions in which they accumulated their wealth would be instantly much enhanced.
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lol showing your true colours there....

Whilst I'm obviously not part of the cadre of whiny little socialists on here and I'm firmly of the belief that tax rates are way too high as I do not see it as my function in life to carry other people's lazy useless arses who in my own subjective opinion do not pull their weight and get a largely free ride thanks to such as me and can drop down a hole as far as I'm concerned, I do however believe you should pay UK tax on UK earnings, regardless of where you are based, this being especially true for multinationals.
I.e. make all sales here have to be through uk registered companies and simply apply a levy to those who try to reduce their tax bill via fictious overheads, and if they don't like it they can forget trading here end of story regardless of who they are etc etc.
Why should freds garage down the road be subject to a worse tax regime than amazon or facebook etc just because they have their office registered in such as IRE.
 
Ian_Davies said:
I thought it was a perfectly reasonable and moderate policy initiative!

And would make for fantastic TV!
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Personally I'd like something like "Battle Royale" or gladiatorial games for those I view as shouldn't be walking the streets , I would actually watch that reality tv 😁
 
Ian_Davies said:
Fair play to anyone who stays put and pays more tax as a result.

And you can't blame anyone who instead chooses to be a tax exile.

It's the law that's at fault.

People who make money off the back of British (or, in Ireland, Irish) workers and by selling their goods to British (or, in Ireland, Irish) consumers shouldn't be allowed to take money thus gained out of the country, those who attempt to do so should find their assets frozen, they should be stripped of their citizenship before being deported penniless and indeed the first, say, ten to attempt it should be burned alive on terrestrial TV in a new regular Saturday night series in a prime time slot and hosted by Walsworth and Megan Nicholls in the UK and in Ireland by Slim and whichever female Irish racing broadcast journalist he's upset most in the last year.

I guarantee the super wealthy's enthusiasm for contributing to the public sectors in the jurisdictions in which they accumulated their wealth would be instantly much enhanced.
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It’s nigh on impossible to frame a law in a way that can’t be twisted to defeat its objective in some way. On the other hand everyone knows what is the spirit of the law and what it is intended to achieve.

Thus, the problem becomes a moral one. Not enough people prepared to abide by the spirit of the law, but instead manipulate the letter of the law to avoid its intentions.
 
barjon said:
It’s nigh on impossible to frame a law in a way that can’t be twisted to defeat its objective in some way.
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If I ever get into power, just watch me confound that assertion.

Fortunately for the super rich, I can't actually be arsed to do anything to help my fellow man (or woman), still less get into political activism (too boring for my childlike attention span) and, apart from occasionally pointlessly pontificating on social media, my political involvement is confined to getting my arse down polling stations at elections and voting (as pawras astutely speculates) for someone vaguely left of centre, while the rest of the time doing a passable impression of Genghis Khan by looking out exclusively for me and mine.

As Blackadder (II) once said when off his face: "I'm a complicated person, you see, Aunty:"
 
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Four pages of great debate about this. I think I can now summarise the general thinking or feeling, that if you can get away with it, then why not.

I must admit I've often found the odd woman attractive, until I found out they were married. This entire debate has got me thinking...
 
Marble said:
Four pages of great debate about this. I think I can now summarise the general thinking or feeling, that if you can get away with it, then why not.

I must admit I've often found the odd woman attractive, until I found out they were married. This entire debate has got me thinking...
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I always found if they're already attached it's easier to have them on a trial basis then send back
 
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Slim said:
The government should lower the tax rate for John Paul McManus. What a great idea.
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The only thing I'd say to that is 20% of billions is a lot more than zero % of billions. Doesn't lowering the tax rate for the billionaires take the tax havens out of the game ?
 
Danny said:
The only thing I'd say to that is 20% of billions is a lot more than zero % of billions. Doesn't lowering the tax rate for the billionaires take the tax havens out of the game ?
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I still think my TV Show idea is a better notion, and will actually raise more tax revenue long term.

There could be spin-off games too - "You get to keep all the horses you own that you can name under torture," "Beat The Drop - Pay All The Back Taxes You've Used Loopholes To Avoid By The Commercial Interval Or Be Hanged After It," "Bob The Billionaire Builder - Help Build The New Hospital We Can Now Build With Your Taxes," (real feel good one, that), the possibilities are endless!
 
Steeplechasing said:
Happy birthday JP. 75 today.
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I would have my doubts if the bloke reads the forum, tbh, Joe, so it's odds against him receiving your birthday greetings.

Anyway, many happy returns to everyone on the entire planet with a birthday today (this is a one-off pointless birthday message from me to people who won't even see it - I'm not about to start making a habit of it).
 

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