Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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Quite right Jan.
Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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The tax treaty between the UK and Ireland specifies that profits made in the UK by Irish companies are to be taxed in Ireland and vice versa. As Google trades in the UK as an Irish corporation, its UK profits are therefore subject to Irish corporation tax.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
Jan Higgins
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Does the same sort of treaty exist with all the other countries that are involved in the tax avoidance schemes.
Treaties are broken when it suits various governments and do not lead to war, I can not imagine Ireland going to war with the UK over a broken tax treaty.
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Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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Suggest you have a look at
this summary.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
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I was going to Peter but as soon as I saw the words HMRC I knew the chances of me understanding their gobble-de-gook was almost zero so wentt no further than the heading.
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Keith Sansum1
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im with post 2890(surprisingly)
ALL POSTS ARE MY OWN PERSONAL VIEWS
Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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Courtesy Independent...............
David Cameron appeals to Canadian PM Stephen Harper not to block plans to crack down on tax evasion
PM seeks support before G8 summit for global deal to create registers of company ownership
David Cameron has appealed to Stephen Harper, the Canadian Prime Minister, not to scupper an agreement
at next week's G8 summit on plans for a global crackdown on secret companies used for money laundering,
tax evasion and terrorist activity.
Guest 714- Registered: 14 Apr 2011
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Cameron should simplify the tax regs in the UK before trying bully others. Typical cop out from a useless PM.
(Cue comments from Reg and Keith that I'm showing my true colours)
Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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On the `very`odd occasion you show the right colour.....keep up the good work......I totally agree...............
Guest 714- Registered: 14 Apr 2011
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What's the right colour Reg?
Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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Independent,commonsense,logical,.....ridicule free....... colour..........not holding breath....have a good weekend old chap....
Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
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David Little wrote:What's the right colour Reg?
Red with not the very slightest touch of blue to be seen.
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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david will have a good weekend reg, playing golf in the daytime and watching it on the box during the evening.
Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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Excellent,most enjoyable ...........did it for two years when I retired.......but be careful not to forget the family.....
buy them a set of clubs......enjoy......
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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I t depends on what the term SIMPLIFY THE REGS means
ALL POSTS ARE MY OWN PERSONAL VIEWS
Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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Easy, Keith, it means repeal or redraft nearly a thousand pieces of legislation. Should only take a week or so.
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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We are all in it together...............nah but if we were a Republic ?
Revealed: Prince Charles's secret property deals - including a £38 million industrial carbuncle
Exclusive: Duchy estate bought Milton Keynes supermarket depot despite his famously forthright
views on preserving traditional architecture and countryside
Prince Charles, renowned for his aversion to "monstrous carbuncle" buildings, has spent £38m on
an industrial depot in Milton Keynes as part of a £102m series of confidential property deals,
The Independent can reveal. The purchase of the vast supermarket warehouse through his
estate - one of the single largest acquisitions by the Duchy of Cornwall in its 670-year history -
was completed 18 months ago but has been kept from being made public.
A recent judicial ruling declared the Duchy to be a "public body" potentially liable to freedom of
information rules.
But Clarence House has repeatedly refused to disclose any details of the expensive acquisition
due to what the Prince's officials said was the Duchy's "private" status.
Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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Courtesy Guardian..............
Tax secrecy to be swept away, says David Cameron
PM promises central register to reveal who benefits from 'shadowy' companies
David Cameron said 'shadowy' companies would have to be registered.
Britain is to "sweep away" tax secrecy by introducing a new central register that will ensure all
the true owners of "shadowy" shell companies have to be declared to the tax authorities,
David Cameron has announced.
In one of the biggest steps by Britain to crack down on "aggressive" tax avoidance and money
laundering, the prime minister pledged in a Guardian interview to end the era of "secretive companies
in secretive locations" that cost exchequers around the world billions of pounds in lost revenue.
The prime minister will ask G8 leaders, including Barack Obama and Angela Merkel, to sign up to a
new set of core principles on tax on the second and final day of the summit, which opens in
Northern Ireland on Monday.
Next stop the individuals who are also at it.....................
Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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What will Flashman do ?
David Cameron could make Bermuda open up on taxes - if he wanted to
If Bermuda succeeds in undermining an attempted crackdown on tax havens, it's because our PM
allowed it to happen
Bermuda: its premier, Craig Cannonier, said on Wednesday that the island was not ready to sign
an international transparency convention.
That Bermuda may jeopardise a major international agreement that's trying to crack down on tax havens
is a bad joke. Consider this from a recent white paper on the future of Britain's overseas territories:
the UK's parliament has "unlimited power to legislate for all its overseas territories and crown dependencies".
The unvarnished truth is clear. If David Cameron wanted to, he could force Bermuda to fall into line and
simultaneously put Britain's house in order.
The British prime minister holds all the constitutional aces in relation to Bermuda. But the real issue is
whether he has the political will to exert that power. It seems the perceived "independence" of the
overseas territories provides a convenient excuse for the Cameron government to have it both ways.
The prime minister can say he is all for transparency and then fail to achieve it by blaming a small,
remote island for blocking its implementation.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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