Luxembourg

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In the news recently
Population of 30 odd thousand yet have a veto in the EU

What do they do? Economy based on paper shuffeling and pencil pushing?

 

[Notch7]

Economy based on

Economy based on a tax haven.

I think your population might be on the low side
Did you hear it on the radio

One of the Benelux countries......heart of Europe, dontcha know

 

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Economy based on a tax haven.

I think your population might be on the low side
Did you hear it on the radio

One of the Benelux countries......heart of Europe, dontcha know

Population quoted was approx 35,000

Basically the same population as a UK town

As that great visionary Jeremy Clarkson stated with out the EU they are a waste of space

Money laundering economy

 

[fillyboy]

Someone posted up a chart recently, nothing to do with the above but I'm sure it showed Luxemburg has the highest gdp per capita in Europe.

 

[fillyboy]

Here we go.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_in_Europe_by_GDP_(nominal)_per_capita

I can only assume that as Jean Claude Drunker was once president of Luxembourg, they have the responsibility of keeping his cocktail bar topped up, that would certainly skew the gdp figures.

 

[noseall]

I see the UK as listed as a sovereign state. I wonder if the brexers will get a grown up to read it to them and explain what that means.

 

[ellal]

Money laundering economy

UK by far the biggest enabler of global corporate tax dodging

Brexit could make the UK the money laundering capital of the world

 

[transam]

All them luxembourgers must be related to one another

 

[charliegolf]

All them luxembourgers must be related to one another

Ditto Brexiters.

 

[transam]

Ditto Brexiters.

Only those on the Isle of Wight

May be the Shetland Islands???

 

[EddieM]

UK by far the biggest enabler of global corporate tax dodging

Brexit could make the UK the money laundering capital of the world

Done this before, the UK itself is 13th (Not that I condone it)

 

[ellal]

Done this before, the UK itself is 13th (Not that I condone it)

Anyone who voted leave condones it...

Because (since they knew exactly what they were voting for) they would have known that the UK wouldn't be bound by EU tax evasion laws...

And also (since they knew exactly what they were voting for) it was widely touted before the vote that the UK would likely become an 'offshore tax haven' for the rich and corporates!

The addition of 'free ports' into the mix means money laundering will become almost the norm...

Thus dropping the UK into 'pariah state' territory!

 

[Notch7]

they would have known that the UK wouldn't be bound by EU tax eva

I never saw it on the side of a bus.

 

[JohnD]

EU tax alignment commences 1 Jan 2020. Tightening the screw on tax-dodgers.

Boris is maniacally determined that UK will be out of EU by 1 November 2019.

Coincidence.

The owners of the UK's right-wing, anti-EU mass media are all tax dodgers.

Coincidence.




My asre.

 

[ellal]

I never saw it on the side of a bus.

Plenty of talk about the 'Singapore option'