So you consider it morally wrong to buy duty free when sailing/flying to/from UK?Am sorry, but no. Why should a born, bread and resident of a country, a country that you get to enjoy all the benefits and then think it's ok to pay less tax elsewhere?If the company wasn't tax dodging, but taking advantage of lower tax rates in another country, (it's now based in Ireland for exactly the same reason.) .
I know it's legal Himmy, but I do not think it's moral. The whole thing stinks tbh.
I understand human nature, I understand greed (and this is exactly what this is), but it's not a good thing.
We have a government who is cutting back on the poor, the services that we need and keep preaching to us that we are all in this together.
Pah.
You consider it morally wrong to use tax allowances, when applicable?
This is merely a resort to pull heartstrings. It has no bearing, whatsoever on substantiating your argument.When I read about families who can no longer afford to feed themselves because of no fault of their own, ie illness, job loss at the wrong age and the knock on effect of the conservative cuts, then I feel really sad. Then I hear about the hospitals that are losing funding so much they cannot operate in a safe and quick manner, saving lives and I feel even more sad.
This is a completely different kettle of fish. This is about multi-national companies moving money around, exploiting internal invoices to misrepresent profit and loss within the companies to evade tax. There's no supposition or suspicion about this form of tax avoidance and EU and other countries are taking steps to eradicate this. I fully support the actions and inter-actions of countries to facilitate the proper tax payments.Then I read about the millions - no BILLIONS of money that would be paid into Britian if the tax system was more fair and the loop holes did not exist, then I feel sick. We'd not have so many cuts if the greedy gits paid into Britain. There's been bits about this in the press, before the Panama stuff, Amazon, Starbuck, google... and all of those have been met with derision, quick correctly.
My comment was to question your criticism about Cameron(s) using their allowable tax allowances, and buying shares in a company registered off-shore, even though there's no evidence of any wrongdoing.
Now your argument seems to be shifting towards it's morally wrong to pay lower taxes than that applied in one's host country.
We all do it, when the opportunity arises! So who's being hypocritical now?
Perhaps you ought to compare the amount of VAT lost through duty free sales or goods bought in other countries where VAT is lower to other tax avoidance schemes. Then you could justifiably argue about tax avoidance being morally wrong.
Now you've extrapolated my comments about using tax allowances and paying lower tax duties elsewhere, onto the tax evasion exploits of multinational companies. That's misrepresenting my comments and adapting my comments to apply to different scenarios.And you think it's morally ok? Says more about you as a person to be honest.
Then you round that off with a cheap insult.........