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Posted on: Apr 8 2013, 09:49 AM |
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QUOTE (On the edge @ Apr 7 2013, 10:36 PM) Can you define 'tax avoidance'? Most people will agree that paying taxes is a reasonable thing to do, which is why tax evasion in the country is a criminal offence. Reasonable means that the tax should be fair, easy to understand and collect.
Keeping things very simple and straightforward would avoid huge costs in revenue staffs and specialist accountants, it would also avoid much political gaming. Little wonder there is tax evasion, too many vested interests in maintaining the existing complex status quo.
There was very little point in hauling Starbucks and their peers in front of a parliamentary select committee simply to give them a sanctimonious lecture on financial probity (from MPs of all people!!!). If they have acted unlawfully, get them in Court. If they haven't, then by your own account you MPs have not made the right tax regulations.
Again, we need to sort both - spending and collecting. http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/20...avoidance-dodge |
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Posted on: Apr 7 2013, 10:14 PM |
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Posted on: Jan 19 2013, 12:25 PM |
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QUOTE (motormad @ Jan 18 2013, 07:58 PM) No, just to my Mums house which all the surrounding roads are not salted, let alone cleared. I managed fine in my car.
I managed to walk 20 minutes to and from the town centre from my house and it was ****ing icey, and I'm fat and was eating ice cream, so I think most people can manage.
People's expectation on the council to be there for them is unreal. Disabled and the elderly may suffer but in these cases then you'd hope they have a friend or relative they can call on for help in emergencys, eg needed more Werther's Originals.
Ideally yes there should be more help to manage but at the end of the day I feel this country, the people are just not accustomed to it. In Canada they have worse than this every day and they manage. But the OP was not asking for the council to do the clearing, it was volunteers, on estates, who were doing it. The council supplied materials such as grit. |
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