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The British government levying spurious taxes on its remaining colonies. I am absolutely sure that's going to go well.
by pdntspa 4y ago
The 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.