The Labour Government

[hcblue95]

We’ve just followed USA down the “everything my side does is good, anything your lot does is bad” route.
The details of the actual policies don’t matter any more.

You've sort of proved your own point on this one.

 

[Churchlawtonblue]

There’s never likely to be an agreement on percentage. Everyone wants something slightly different.

It does need sorting as it’s a massive black hole in public finances.

The issue I think nearly everyone agrees on is that the big business's should pay at least the same proportion of tax as the small ones. Unfortunately the big business have the influence and the smaller ones don't. It hasn't seemingly changed under this government.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

The issue I think everyone agrees on is that the big business's should pay at least the same proportion of tax as the small ones. Unfortunately the big business have the influence and the smaller ones don't. It hasn't seemingly changed under this government.

It’ll take more than one country to change how influential these companies are, whatever hue of rose they wear.

 

[Ohrodneyrodney]

You've sort of proved your own point on this one.

Exactly the opposite

 

[Cheadle_hulmeBlue]

I think the phrase "rich farmers" comes up a lot, because that's who is really driving this debate, and who is really going to be affected.

I've heard from Clarkson, Dyson, and Lloyd-Webber telling me that it's the small family farmers they care about, but not much from the farmers with the farms worth £2m or less, which surely is the majority?

Is it? Seems like large numbers of farmers are against these proposals. Huge numbers of farmers aren’t wealthy at all and make little to no profit.

Of course your going to hear more from celebrities then ordinary/ normal farmers. That’s the media for you.

There probably should be some kind of tax on wealthy land owners, but this proposal doesn’t seem popular at all

 

[hcblue95]

Exactly the opposite

How so?

 

[BobKowalski]

Is it? Seems like the vast majority of farmers are against these proposals. Huge numbers of farmers aren’t wealthy at all and make little to no profit…

…There probably should be some kind of tax on wealthy land owners, but this proposal doesn’t seem popular at all

Er, yes. It’s called IHT. It’s what they are all bitching about.

 

[Churchlawtonblue]

It’ll take more than one country to change how influential these companies are, whatever hue of rose they wear.

It doesn't need to be though, there are options to change the tax regime . For example the UK VAT rules could be changed easily to ensure that the tax is paid in the country where the sale takes place. Instead of using electronic trickery to pretend the electronic transaction took place in Luxembourg where the VAT rate is less.

 

[Ohrodneyrodney]

How so?

Work it out mate, it’s not complicated

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

It doesn't need to be though, there are options to change the tax regime . For example the UK VAT rules could be changed easily to ensure that the tax is paid in the country where the sale takes place. Instead of using electronic trickery to pretend the electeonic transaction took place in Luxembourg where the VAT rate is less.

Would be 100% behind that.