howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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found this in my e mail box this morning.
Keith Sansum1
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oh my gawd
davids going to hate this
they found out lol
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Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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Cameron is on thin ice following his `promises` to G8................
Google chief Eric Schmidt to meet David Cameron after tax row
Meeting follows row over Google's tax affairs but No 10 denies multinational tax arrangements are on agenda
Google chief Eric Schmidt is to meet David Cameron at No10 but the firm;'s tax affairs are not on the agenda,
says Downing Street.
Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt will meet David Cameron next week, just days after the internet
giant was mauled by a Commons committee over its tax affairs, it has emerged.
Downing Street confirmed that Schmidt is set to attend a quarterly meeting of the prime minister's Business
Advisory Group at No 10 on Monday.
The Google chief is one of 16 members of the group, established in 2010 as a sounding board for the PM
to hear business leaders' concerns and priorities and discuss the government's policies for the economy
and growth, and has regularly taken part in its gatherings.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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Looks like not much will change there then
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Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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Ed Miliband vows to curb corporate tax avoidance
Labour leader urges David Cameron to work with G8 countries to force corporate giants to pay
their ``fair`` share
Ed Miliband is prepared to go it alone if other countries do not agree to act.
Ed Miliband has vowed to rip up the rule book as prime minister and go it alone if there is no international
consensus to tackle multinationals engaging in massive tax avoidance.
In an interview with the Observer, the Labour leader urged David Cameron to find agreement at the G8 summit
of leaders next month around an ambitious agenda forcing corporate giants to pay their fair share.
He said that, if Cameron fails, he himself as prime minister would unilaterally act to make multinationals
operating in the UK more transparent about the money they make here, the movement of cash around
their corporate structures, and the justifications for the tax they pay.
***************He would also increase the resources of HM Revenue and Customs to strike at tax cheats********.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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the problem of bringing in new hmrc staff is that if they were any good they could be head hunted by the big corporations.
back to square one.
Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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"increase the resources of HM Revenue and Customs to strike at tax cheats"
Whether this echo from the left comes before or after much the same faint and feeble echo from the right, is neither here nor there. The only problem addressed in statements of this sort is one of, "How am I going to get into the newspapers?"
If there are such things as "tax cheats" their numbers ebb and flow in line with personal taste, and are never likely to form a sizeable percentage of the tax-efficient - takers & keepers - who rely upon a National Economy but fail to support it. These 'tax cheats' are more Vampire than parasite, and taken as a whole the parasitic 'tax-efficient' require oversight, for their tendency is to make loaves from all the grain and rely upon the Nation State to conjure-up the seed to keep the beneficent cycle going.
The fundamental laws governing commerce and taxation need redrafting to ensure that the host economy is supported.
In addition to this the basic business ethics also need to be reconfigured.
Steps have been taken in Business Schools(1) and their Graduates(2)...
-1
http://businessethicsblog.com/2012/07/03/a-business-ethics-syllabus/
-2
http://site.business-ethics-pledge.org/
...and wise old business heads...
http://www.billgeorge.org/page/as-a-servant-leader-you-can-change-the-world
Something also worthy of consideration...
Tax turnover to tackle avoidance
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/tax-gap-blog/2009/feb/04/3Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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we are back to the fairness issues
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Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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In South Africa Turnover Tax is used to encourage SMEs...
http://www.sars.gov.za/TaxTypes/TT/Pages/default.aspxIgnorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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It doescappear though howard either not enough is done to chase these geezers, or the govt and its depts are happy for it to continue
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Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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To the heart of the matter...
"We are disturbed that David Cameron, co-chairing the UN high level panel on post-2015 development, is blocking efforts to focus on inequality (Report, May 15). Economic research shows that smaller income differences lead to more sustained economic growth and catalyse disproportionately large reductions in poverty. We have a unique opportunity to get inequality rooted in the way we "do" development - how we talk about it and measure it. That's why we, with 90 academics, economists and development experts, asked the high level panel to put strategies to reduce inequality at the heart of the new framework (full text and signatories at:
http://tinyurl.com/bsdqpm2)*. Most key actors on the development stage now understand the evidence. Why does Cameron think he knows better? In 2009 he said: "We all know, in our hearts, that as long as there is deep poverty living systematically side by side with great riches, we all remain the poorer for it". We challenge him to match words with action.
Professor Kate Pickett
Emeritus professor Richard Wilkinson
Equality Trust"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/may/19/europe-fight-fair-wages
*
http://post2015.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/inequality-letter-final-190313.pdfIgnorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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well now another professr given good words
the mouse goes alone,,,,,,
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Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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Hooray!! We are in the twenty-first century...at last.
The short film in the link below has saved me hours of copy-typing...phew!
http://www.private-eye.co.uk/eyeplayer.php?media=298&;
Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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Multinational CEOs tell David Cameron to rein in tax avoidance rhetoric
Burberry, Tesco, Vodafone and BAE Systems join CBI chief in lobbying PM to stop moralising on tax
ahead of G8 talks
Sir Roger Carr, CBI chairman, said at an earlier meeting that tax avoidance "cannot be about morality -
there are no absolutes".
The bosses of some of Britain's largest multinational corporations have urged David Cameron to stop
moralising and rein in his rhetoric on tax avoidance ahead of a G8 summit next month.
Chief executives of companies such as Burberry, Tesco, Vodafone, BAE Systems, Prudential and GSK
were keen to take a final opportunity to lobby the prime minister in advance of the meeting of political
leaders in Northern Ireland.
Cameron has pledged to use Britain's G8 presidency to tackle aggressive tax avoidance by multinationals
, but is also keen to heed the counsel of his business advisory group, which he met with on Monday.
Also present was Google's chairman, Eric Schmidt, despite the internet search firm coming under fierce
attack from MPs last week because of its tax arrangements.
The president of the Confederation of British Industry, Sir Roger Carr, who was at the meeting, was
among those who have taken issue with Cameron's attacks on the ethics of big business tax engineering.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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the mouse is being pulled in all directions
not strong enough to make a clear decision
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Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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Cameron is our weakest leader since Callaghan. Were it not for my personal friendship with and loyalty to certain local politicians who actually listen to me, I would have switched my vote to UKIP by now.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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Politicians listen to people......
Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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...and gain respect by doing so.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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you have finally come out of the cupboard blue peter, without reg having to out you.
you will feel better in yourself now, confession is good for the soul.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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Howard
had i said that our peter would have got all upperty
just shows howard you can speak the truth and your mayorship of belgrave goes far
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