They are not luxury goods, periods are not luxury they are fucking horrible
and no man can say that I'm overacting because you don't know the pain and
why are men so grossed out by them women have to bleed for five days and
just get on with their lives as normal saying the word tampon or period is
not gonna kill you it's natural so deal with girls talking about it.
+jasminehancock50 Its a mans world! They get off with it, we pay for it! Those 2 girls free bleeding at parliament have the right idea but more women need to join them! If I lived close I know I would! They tax maternity pads too! Funny thing is, we need those after we give birth to these pathetic men in the first place! lol sorry but I'm really beginning to hate men!!!
Starbucks, Amazon & Google - are they tax avoiders? MP's seem to think so
MPs on the House of Commons Public Accounts Committee grilled Starbucks, Amazon and Google about why they paid almost no UK corporation tax. Starbucks ...
If companies abide by the law...should they pay in extra?? I think the
rules are at fault. How Bazaar". Sometimes I wonder if the politicians
understand the tax laws. If the government wants companies to pay more
tax...charge the tax under the rules. If you do not like the rules...ask
parliament to change the rules. That is democracy.This is a waste of tax
payers money... how embarrassing. What is Fair or moral when it comes to
tax?? The government charges and we pay...that is how it works! WOW
These MPs have found a whipping boy in foreign (especially US) companies to
make themselves more appealing to the voters. What these companies do is
perfectly legal and the EU make these rules which allow them to be
headquartered in whichever EU country is most advantageous for them. The UK
can either lower their tax rate to match the lowest tax rate in the EU or
leave the EU altogether and set even lower rates than that. But they don't
do either
Actually, most MPs have very little power at all. Those who are in
opposition or are backbenchers on the government side are not members of
the executive. The government is composed of 80-odd MPs from the two
governing parties, of whom 20-odd form the Cabinet (together with a few
mebers of the House of Lords). The rest of the 650 MPs have no executive
power. MPs who are members of the government do sit sit on select
committees.
About the other comments here regarding what the MP said about "immoral"
and "fair": Those tax deals that make companies save bazillions of taxes
are legal. But they are illegitimate.
Therefore they may win the courts, but that doesn't mean it is right what
they are doing.
For Americans, laws are more like a risk factor in a business plan, right?
You guys are absolutely ... [fill in what you like].
These huge multinational corporations are MAINLY greedy. MPs have so much
power, but these guys have so much more power. UNFORTUNATELY! They duck and
dodge paying tax, by sneaking their money over international borders. The
UN should do something, but then they are fairly corrupt and also powerless
as well. poor companies votes would just be bought buy multinationals.
it's all very well for these M.P's to sit here with their sense of
righteous indignation, after all what these multi-nationals are doing is
amoral, however, these M.P's are the very people supposedly elected to
represent societies views and furthermore have the power to legislate. Yet
they don't, wonder why..?
Amazon is paying around 1 % taxes in Europe only and STILL has a deficit.
What a fucking shitcompany is that, seriously? Their business plan even
doesn't work when they steal most of the taxes they should pay.
Fuck!
Just close down the UK branch, dont give them permit anymore to operate and
say it will help them to "avoid losses".. hahaha.. I'm sure they will say:
"Oh noooo... don't do that" Trollollol...
There is nothing sinister in so arranging ones affairs as to keep taxes as
low as possible, for nobody owes any public duty to pay more than the law
demands.
- Justice Learned Hand
"Accuse you of being immoral"?, "Do you think that's fair?" - are these
legal arguments? - seriously? Do the MPs believe that taxes rates at 50% -
65% are fair and moral?
its always a game played on our minds , we all see them working and holding
the errant companies to account but in actual fact nothing ever happens to
them
This bit is not about whether Amazon is using loopholes - they almost
certainly are. It's about the fact that Amazon is trying to "appear clean"
and to avoid being exposed for their financial behaviour, by concealing key
figures (UK profit) from the Committee.
Absolutely brilliant, what a classic of how being unprepared can backfire,
badly..... every person working in communications should watch this and
learn and every company Executive should watch and learn and drop the
arrogance!!
hmmmm - you making judgement on hodge - yet you are writing on a website
(as I am too) on a Google owned product (YouTube) which is doing exactly
the same...so I think you are a hypocrite!
Communism always surprises me that nobody really understands that it has
almost complete control in the west. Taxation is one of the biggest forms
of socialism. Taxation is tyranny.
Man he's a sharp debater. Totally disarmed Fran Whogivesatoss's poorly-made
but relevant point (being that the sales tax regime was flawed) and turned
it back to smashing the GST.
Michael Meacher MP for Oldham West and Royton at Bilderberg UK
Veteran Labour MP and former minister Michael Meacher has died after a short illness at the age of 75. Mr Meacher had been MP for Oldham West and Royton ...
Veteran Labour MP and former minister Michael Meacher has died after a
short illness at the age of 75.
Mr Meacher had been MP for Oldham West and Royton since 1970, retaining the
seat with a 14,738 majority in May.
Mr Meacher, seen as being on the left of the party, spent 29 years on
Labour's frontbench including six as an environment minister under Tony
Blair.
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said he was a "man of enormous breadth and
intellectual vision".
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He served in junior ministerial roles in the Wilson and Callaghan
governments in the 1970s and at one time was spoken of as a future Labour
leader.
Mr Meacher, an Oxford University classics graduate who had been a lecturer
before becoming an MP, stood as the left's candidate against Roy Hattersley
for the deputy leadership of the party in 1983, but was defeated.
HMRC failing to tackle tax avoidance, say MPs Subscribe to the Guardian HERE: //bitly.com/UvkFpD Margaret Hodge, chair of parliament's public accounts ...
To tax MPs or not?
//www.ntv.co.ke Justice Minister, Mutula Kilonzo, is now calling on the newly constituted Supreme Court to give a ruling, whether or not the current Members ...
These fuckers work on contract...they still in the colonial days when the
British would call up some Kenyans to sweep and mop the parliament walkways
and the high court offices. Those are the contract jobs they still think
they are doing. Every excuse not to pay taxes....yet they want the hottest
hooker in Italy when they pack their bags and go to sing songs of praise to
their masters in Europe with a begging bowl in hand. I call for revolution!
We'll be trapped in this till when????
Jane Kiyo...the Transitional Cap 6 stipulates ' except to the extent that
this constitution expressly provides....' it does that on 210 sub 1 and 2
says ' no one is exempt from taxation...' No One! On Tax Act...the
Commissioner gave 'his opinion' already He wants taxes paid and paid
now...why should he consult Uhuru? Uhuru Mbadi Marende are MPs = tax
cheats. Pay Up or face the consequences!
Aluoch how stupid are you to say tax is a gift to gov.sometimes you fell to
understand where this guys went to school,I wish you had a chance to come
in western countries and learn that their is no negotiation when it comes
to tax payment.This is the money which can reconstruct road and hire
jobless people,wake up guys.
There is not timing issue. Who gave you the contract? You are working for
the Kenyan people and they want you to be taxed. Nyambati, you paid your
taxes when you were in the US. If you didn't, they garnished your pay. Why
are you having a problem with paying your taxes now? Go taxman!
Oh please. Mutula is now talking like a lawyer. The timing is not the
issue. It starts when the constitution was passed Aug 27 2010. Everyone
knows that. But you Mps want to be paid for aug-dec 2012 since parliament
will be dissolved in aug.
Mps should pay back taxes. Any MP who does not agree should be prosecuted
and jailed in Kamiti Maximum prison. And to you Mutunga, do your job Mwanaa
Mwendya, tax them all the way.