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  • Dave2002
    Full Member
    • Dec 2010
    • 18025

    Amazon still using clever tactics to avoid UK tax

    See http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/amazon-faci...ce-row-1449978
  • Beef Oven!
    Ex-member
    • Sep 2013
    • 18147

    #2
    EU tax regs I'm afraid. Treating Europe as a single market. Based in Europe, pay tax in Europe. Britain's in Europe, they've paid tax in Europe. They also pay local taxes like VAT.

    Amazon have several HQs throughout the world, USA, Canada, Europe etc. And they pay corporation tax in USA, Canada, Europe etc.

    Talk to your LibDem MEP and see if he/she can do something about these EU laws. Maybe we can reform them? Cherry pick the ones we like and ask to be excluded from the ones we don't.

    Or ask Nige to get us out of the political union.

    We've been over this one before.

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    • MrGongGong
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      • Nov 2010
      • 18357

      #3
      Originally posted by Beef Oven! View Post

      Or ask Nige to get us out of the political union.
      What a spiffing idea
      will eliminate the problem with one fell swoop by making us all so poor we won'e be able to afford the electricity to power our computers to connect to Amazon in the first place !

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      • Beef Oven!
        Ex-member
        • Sep 2013
        • 18147

        #4
        Originally posted by MrGongGong View Post
        What a spiffing idea
        will eliminate the problem with one fell swoop by making us all so poor we won'e be able to afford the electricity to power our computers to connect to Amazon in the first place !
        Political union, I said. Stop being a Gonad.

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        • MrGongGong
          Full Member
          • Nov 2010
          • 18357

          #5
          Originally posted by Beef Oven! View Post
          Political union, I said. Stop being a Gonad.
          I didn't vote for Terry Fuckwit but it seems some folks did !

          But not as many as the media made out !

          All the people who would have voted UKIP, did. That is still only 27% of a 34% turnout.
          9.18% of possible electorate voted UKIP
          Victory?

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          • Beef Oven!
            Ex-member
            • Sep 2013
            • 18147

            #6
            Gongers, you are taking this all very badly. Chill out bro'! It's bank holiday, fer Chrissakes!

            Put yer calculator away and spin some Merzbow!

            Peace and Jah

            Beef Oven!

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            • teamsaint
              Full Member
              • Nov 2010
              • 25211

              #7
              Originally posted by MrGongGong View Post
              What a spiffing idea
              will eliminate the problem with one fell swoop by making us all so poor we won'e be able to afford the electricity to power our computers to connect to Amazon in the first place !
              There really isn't a direct correlation between membership of the EU and wealth.
              Greece and Switzerland spring to mind.
              Trade and commercial arrangements happen because it is apparently beneficial to both parties.and sometimes this happens in the way that it does because markets are rigged.
              I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.

              I am not a number, I am a free man.

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              • Beef Oven!
                Ex-member
                • Sep 2013
                • 18147

                #8
                Originally posted by teamsaint View Post
                There really isn't a direct correlation between membership of the EU and wealth.
                Greece and Switzerland spring to mind.
                Trade and commercial arrangements happen because it is apparently beneficial to both parties.and sometimes this happens in the way that it does because markets are rigged.
                Beneficial trade - yes

                Articulating weak and strong economies together in a single currency with no fiscal flexibility - no

                We probably agree.

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                • MrGongGong
                  Full Member
                  • Nov 2010
                  • 18357

                  #9
                  Originally posted by Beef Oven! View Post
                  Beneficial trade - yes

                  Articulating weak and strong economies together in a single currency with no fiscal flexibility - no

                  We probably agree.
                  Lets try the kipper magic trade negotiation with every country for every commodity overnight routine !
                  Spooky time travellers as well as racists

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                  • Beef Oven!
                    Ex-member
                    • Sep 2013
                    • 18147

                    #10
                    Originally posted by MrGongGong View Post
                    Lets try the kipper magic trade negotiation with every country for every commodity overnight routine !
                    Spooky time travellers as well as racists
                    Are you saying that I am a racist? We know time travel is impossible.

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                    • MrGongGong
                      Full Member
                      • Nov 2010
                      • 18357

                      #11
                      Originally posted by Beef Oven! View Post
                      Are you saying that I am a racist? We know time travel is impossible.
                      I wouldn't know matey
                      but many in your party are
                      and exactly how does one negotiate trade deals instantly without time travel ?

                      I'm sure Nige must know as you seem to trust him with everything else
                      though he certainly wouldn't be scissor monitor and given his past I wouldn't let him collect the sponsored walk money !!!

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                      • Beef Oven!
                        Ex-member
                        • Sep 2013
                        • 18147

                        #12
                        Originally posted by MrGongGong View Post
                        I wouldn't know matey
                        You wouldn't know if you're saying I'm a racist?

                        Then who would know whether you're saying I'm a racist, if not you?

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                        • MrGongGong
                          Full Member
                          • Nov 2010
                          • 18357

                          #13
                          Originally posted by Beef Oven! View Post
                          You wouldn't know if you're saying I'm a racist?

                          Then who would know whether you're saying I'm a racist, if not you?
                          Cognitive dissonance anyone ?
                          I don't know if YOU are a racist
                          but I do know that many in UKIP are

                          or are you the reincarnation of R D Laing ?

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                          • Beef Oven!
                            Ex-member
                            • Sep 2013
                            • 18147

                            #14
                            Originally posted by MrGongGong View Post
                            Cognitive dissonance anyone ?
                            I don't know if YOU are a racist
                            but I do know that many in UKIP are

                            or are you the reincarnation of R D Laing ?
                            Aren't you supposed to come back as something different, under reincarnation?

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                            • MrGongGong
                              Full Member
                              • Nov 2010
                              • 18357

                              #15
                              Originally posted by Beef Oven! View Post
                              Aren't you supposed to come back as something different, under reincarnation?
                              Same old Knots like the same old same old nonsense from your chums

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