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> Pill was more direct. He said there’s a “reluctance to accept that yes, we’re all worse off and we all have to take our share.” They should look into taxing
by quadrifoliate 4y ago
> Pill was more direct. He said there’s a “reluctance to accept that yes, we’re all worse off and we all have to take our share.”
They should look into taxing the various British Overseas Territories which usually top lists of tax havens across the world [1].
I am not sure if the regular British public is just ignorant of the existence of these, or prefers to run with the limited set of facts that their Conservative government (now in its 13th year) is presenting to them. The Brexit shitshow seems to suggest the former.
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[1] https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/mar/09/uk-overseas-territories-top-list-of-worlds-leading-tax-havens https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/mar/09/uk-overseas...
- ChuckNorris89 4y ago>"we’re all worse off and we all have to take our share" Who is this 'we'? Only the poor and the middle class are worse off and being squeezed by the CoL. The big industry players, ruling, upper and asset owning class are all making bank. Do they think people like Tony Blair or Lord McMansion are affected that food, electricity and gas are all up? There is no 'we' here.
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- tleilaxu 4y agoGiven that the current prime minister is a non-dom himself… seems rather unlikely to be in his or any of his friends interests.
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- krona 4y agoLOL citation needed. (Yes, everyone knows about the wife.)
- bagels 4y agoFor those that don't have any idea what a non-dom is (like myself), BBC says: "Non-dom" is short for "non-domiciled individual". It's a term used for a UK resident whose permanent home, or domicile, is outside the UK. "Non-dom" is a description of tax status.
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- rurp 4y agoAm I understanding this right, that the leader of the UK has his official residence outside of the country in order to evade taxes? If so, it's pretty wild that that's accepted
- andrewmutz 4y agoThere's no tax shortfall. Taxing tax havens is fine but you shouldn't expect it to limit inflation very much.
- pdntspa 4y agoThe British government levying spurious taxes on its remaining colonies. I am absolutely sure that's going to go well.
- vondur 4y agoReminds me of that Monty Python episode where they suggest taxing all foreigners living overseas.
- quadrifoliate 4y agoIt would be laughable to equate holders of British passports issued by His Majesty's Passport Office [1] as "foreigners living overseas". ---------------------------------------- [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_passport_(Cayman_Islands) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_passport_(Cayman_Islan...
- FireBeyond 4y ago> levying spurious taxes "The British Virgin Islands were ranked as the “greatest enabler of corporate tax abuse”" Ahh yes, leveling the playing field is now "spurious taxes" on wealthy individuals and corps...
- pdntspa 4y agoThe joke is that the US was founded because of it
- imtringued 4y agoI don't know about British overseas islands but the French ones have the problem that they are absolutely tiny. At 13k residents there is not much tax revenue you can get out of them and sending the money back to the mainland only makes their trade deficits worse.