Again, not really an EU thing... but I rather doubt that there are "Business Rate free" areas, and as far as I know that's a good example of a tax that is easily applied wherever a business owner is domiciled. The problem with the "death of the High Street" is more to do with car parking difficulty and cost in town centres; in one way that's evidence for what happens when taxation gets too high (for many local authorities, parking has tended to become a major form of "tax" income, due to increasing spending obligations and decreases in grant income from central government).
And just look at the vehicles they produce now and compare to what the situation was with Jaguar and LR when they were part of British Leyland. Although Jaguar had a period as an independent company again, after BL, it was mainly Ford and Tata commitment to it that has made it the success it now is.
I think the Government uses business rate holidays to incentivise companies to move to areas that require investment
Is "eluded" some new form of "tax management" somewhere between avoidance (legal) and evasion (criminal) ?
I can understand why a local authority should set attractive business rates but it should be a level playing field for all businesses. To do otherwise is a bit like an insurance company offering low prices to new customers whilst fleecing their existing customers.
Thread drift. Did you see her direct response on trident last night? Whether agree or not with the message, the fact she answered the questions directly and without rhetoric was refreshing. Then Corbyn had his party digging him?!
I missed it but I believe she slapped down Caroline Lucas who responded "How dare you !". The whole Trident debate was technically unnecessary and designed purely to embarrass Corbyn
Oh he'll listen to them. And then he'll ask them to vote again until they get it right. Still he is a socialist: loves democracy as long as it delivers only one result.
None of what these multinationals do is strictly legal. If i tried it for my small businesses, HMRC would slap it down in a shot but i can't afford to employ top lawyers to brow beat HMRC into accepting it. Once tax ceases to be fair and becomes either punitive or one law for the wealthy and another for everyone else, then the system is on a slippery slope.
Production in China, plant in Brazil, building in Slovakia now, others coming. So far only expansion here too, until I guess the bubble bursts. Ragan Tata, one man owns all JLR
And now the humourless Angela Eagle has ditched her leadership attempt. Why don't those who can't support their elected leader resign as MP's and stand in a by-election? Gutless....unprincipled...shallow...disloyal..can you imagine these spineless arse lickers leading the country? I cannot even begin to imagine the horror of it
