> I think the UK and EU should be looking at creativity of accounting I think the EU should look into the crazy high tax rates people and companies can experie

> I think the UK and EU should be looking at creativity of accounting I think the EU should look into the crazy high tax rates people and companies can experience in the EU and set a hard cap, because it is out of control. For a start it'd be fair games if it was legally disallowed to tax individual at a higher tax rate than what EU servants are paying (somewhere between 5% to 12%, while for "plebs" not working in the EU it can quickly go above 50%. 50% + 19% social wellfare tax in my case). I've personally had enough. I'm an expat now. I just created a company with another expat, living in another continent, and we picked a business-friendly place to incorporate. The EU could have had my business had they been showing some willingness to be nice to business. But it only ever seems to go in the way of more taxes no matter which EU country you're in. Screw that: I'm out. > ... except that another cohort of politicians get rich That said I'm not sure politicians in the EU get very rich. It's not the US nor Russia where you get politicians billionaires (at least it's really not common). I don't think the president of France, for example, is paid more than an average SV wage (I think it's actually half that). The uncovered bribing cases in the EU have mostly been very petty: it's really sad for how cheap votes can be bought (say a dinner and a week-end paid in a nice hotel). We're talking about EU member of the European Parliament cheating on "presence tickets" (pretending they're there to vote when they're not) to collect about 300 EUR everytime they cheat (absenteism is so big that they had to incentive MEP to vote by introducing tickets were they'd get a little bonus everytime they vote). MEPs are cheating by signing in the friday mornings (votes are typically done on friday), so they get their 300 EUR bonus, but then they go home for the week-end. That's petty mindset, to make petty money, not rich.