Starbucks ..... wake up and

[Mick Mac]

New ?77m funding for HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) in this Spending Review period to expand their anti-avoidance and evasion activity, specifically those focusing on offshore evasion and avoidance by wealthy individuals and by multinationals. This is expected to bring in an additional ?2bn per year in tax that would have otherwise gone unpaid

[LadyDeliah]

About bloody time.

[woodrot]

populist window dressing in the wake of Jimmy Carr.

In Zug, when you setup, it is possible to negotiate how much tax in exact terms, not % , you will pay before the business is running and cashflows are generated.

Whilst the nazi gold hoarding Swiss stop pulling rabbits like this out of their hat, this legitimate, if unsavoury, practice will continue.

[the-e-dealer]

I don't use No-Bucks - they charge extra for Soya Milk. Pret is cheaper. Just hope they don't turn out to be white slaving or anything.

[Salsaboy]

*Quickly packs suitcase full of fifty pound notes and heads for Switzerland*

Mick Mac Wrote:

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> New ?77m funding for HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC)

> in this Spending Review period to expand their

> anti-avoidance and evasion activity, specifically

> those focusing on offshore evasion and avoidance

> by wealthy individuals and by multinationals.

> This is expected to bring in an additional ?2bn

> per year in tax that would have otherwise gone

> unpaid

[Mick Mac]

The swiss are now declaring all UK account holders to HMRC or withholding tax. Don't go there.

[LadyDeliah]

Dances jig :-)

[woodrot]

buks have announced they will scrub the royalties and pay tax apparently.

[????]

Brilliant.

Everyone stop using Amazon and send them an email explaining why and this'll get done.

Don't wait for slow, inefficient, political, ineffectual govt to sort this out.

[the-e-dealer]

Another Hero Hurrah !

No-Bucks have announced they are paying ?10M A Year,

I wish to announce I will pay ?100 a year. OK?

[Salsaboy]

?10m a year? Loose change to them. Bloody disgrace.

[Mick Mac]

The UK public should consider a boycott irrespective of the 10/20m. Its a relatively inexpensive publicity stunt.

[Alan Medic]

What about the people whose livelihood depends on Starbucks? Are they just collateral damage?

[the-e-dealer]

Oh yeah starbucks are going down big time

[Salsaboy]

Lots & lots of free publicity for them, on the BBC no less.

Mick Mac Wrote:

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> The UK public should consider a boycott

> irrespective of the 10/20m. Its a relatively

> inexpensive publicity stunt.

[LadyDeliah]

Quids I like your idea of emailing Amazon.

I've already used their search to get the goods I want, but searched the names of the sellers online to buy them directly.

Amazon can kiss my backside. They won't get another penny from me.

I've uninstalled Google Chrome too and gone back to Firefox. Chrome is better and Google have all kinds of other stuff to link up, but I'm going to check out alternatives. I know Yahoo do an upload docs thing and they have a calender, so I might move to them. Need to see if they are any better than Google though.

Does anyone know a search engine that comes close to being as good as Google?

[LadyDeliah]

Ok, I've sent this to Amazon:

"FAO the CEO of Amazon,

I have used Amazon for many years, but I will not give you another penny of my hard earned money until you pay corporation tax in the UK on the money you make here.

I will use your search facility to locate private UK registered sellers then find their online website to buy from them directly.

I hope that you rethink your immoral tax practices, or lose a huge amount of business here, because all of our services are being cut, while big corporations like you, drain money out of our country.

Amanda"

If anyone wants to complain too, here is the email link: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/help/customer/contact-us?ie=UTF8&browse_node_id=

[the-e-dealer]

I prefer Delilah but Amanda sounds quite nice

[LadyDeliah]

Lol, thanks.

[Mick Mac]

Get a room.

[the-e-dealer]

Oh very embarrassing. Im sure there's' a thread on here about rooms.

[LadyDeliah]

You don't understand. It's romantic, not seedy.

Two people meet in the virtual world and initially hate eachother, but over time, their feelings for eachother grow and they can't keep their emotions inside.

Reality keeps on getting in the way of their budding romance, but they know they are destined to be together.

Except you've gone and spoilt it all now!

[LadyDeliah]

Ok, changed my search engine and calender to Yahoo from Google, plus added dropbox to dispense with Google Drive.

A bit more of a pain but not that much more. I just hope I don't get lost or have to speak German any time soon.

Also please Yahoo and Dropbox, pay your taxes!

[maxxi]

LadyDeliah Wrote:

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> Quids I like your idea of emailing Amazon.

>

> I've already used their search to get the goods I

> want, but searched the names of the sellers online

> to buy them directly.

>

> Amazon can kiss my backside. They won't get

> another penny from me.

>

> I've uninstalled Google Chrome too and gone back

> to Firefox.

So only: Boots, Apple, Vodaphone, ebay, Ikea, Cadbury, Johnnie Walker, Caffe Nero and Zavvi to go then...

(come on we've all been bombarded by the '38 Degrees' 12-tax-dodgers-of-Xmas poster - particularly hard to avoid Cadbury during this festive time tho' eh?)

ETA: x-posted with your new thread re the above.

[LondonLogCo]

Buy books in your local bookshop.

Cherner

Dulwich books

Rye books

Really, are any of us that poor that the price from Amazon really makes a difference to our lives.

I also don't get the whole Starbucks thing either.