Coronavirus: This tax haven exclusion is just one way the UK is missing the chance to change
Registered in a tax haven? Then no tax-funded help for you: there’s no reason the UK should give tax-dodging firms a hand during the coronavirus crisis if they haven’t paid their full dues.
Here’s a good idea. Shame it’s another country that came up with it:
https://twitter.com/withorpe/status/1251925513217675264
https://twitter.com/withorpe/status/1251940269303435264
These are proper measures! Fecking bravo Denmark. Share buy backs are an appalling use of q company's cash
— Peter (@sobyeski22) April 19, 2020
It makes perfect sense.
Companies that have withheld their profits from HM Revenue and Customs by registering themselves in tax havens have opted out of paying the full amount of tax that they could (I would say should) have been paying.
Therefore there is no reason they should benefit from aid schemes funded by those taxes, in the UK.
And do we expect the UK to impose a restriction similar to Denmark?
https://twitter.com/KateyKay3/status/1251951667450429450
https://twitter.com/Marg33337/status/1251963240583659520
exactly!
— Mak George (@MakGeorge) April 19, 2020
You may have to. 🙄
— corn flake (@cornflake57) April 19, 2020
Tories don't have the minerals to do this. They'd rather fuck over the poor and cull another 120k than put the screws on a person / organisation that has already accumulated more wealth than can ever spend in several lifetimes.
— Manumission – Guitarist with Tout-á-Coup Jazz (@lockforward4) April 19, 2020
So Denmark is doing the right thing, but the UK won’t because we have a Conservative government that receives donations from tax dodgers, in the opinions of the masses on Twitter.
Yet millions of people voted for the Conservative government that allows this gaming of the system.
There will be more chances, too. The simple fact is that the coronavirus lockdown, and the many deaths that Conservative government failures have directly caused, mean the Tories will need our help to get the UK running they way they want afterwards.
Alternatively, we could demand the changes we need in order to live the kind of lives they have in Denmark (for example).
Do you honestly want a few crawlers to throw that chance away?
Have YOU donated to my crowdfunding appeal, raising funds to fight false libel claims by TV celebrities who should know better? These court cases cost a lot of money so every penny will help ensure that wealth doesn’t beat justice.
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