Read it and weep. This is Australia but the UK is even worse. No-one seems to give a stuff that huge corporations have become the scroungers of the country.

They have no loyalty, they leech of the waged taxpayer and those who pay GST for every item.

There should be massive tax receipts to pay for everything the UK needs (as there is in the USA & Australia).

But it's out of control. You are witnessing the Last Days of Capitalism. But don't believe me- plenty of economists are terrified. I'll do OK because I can survive under any system..except..the phony "Free Market". ( I've stocked up on Aldi Champagne though ..Christ it's better than Moët & Chandon- the National Drink of Essex but what isn't ?

Do these names sound familiar?. They should. Rupert Murdoch is in there somewhere.

Top 40 Tax Dodgers

VODAFONE HUTCHISON revenue = $11Billion plus Tax = zilch
VIRGIN (for it is he Sir Richard) revenue= $11Billion Tax= zilch
FOXTEL CABLE TV (Rupert)= revenue= &6Billion Tax= zilch

etc etc etc... if in the UK..multiply this by TEN !

www.michaelwest.com.au/tax-dodgers/

Countries such as Lichtenstein, Andora, Switzerland, Monaco etc. have been doing this for years - acting as tax havens, and selling loopholes.

Nearer home, Ireland has recently been very hospitable and generous to Google, Apple, Microsoft, Facebook, Amazon, INTEL - and more.

It's not illegal when the appropriate legislation is passed.

And when we leave the EU, we will be busily replicating - to attract investment here.

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Countries such as Lichtenstein, Andora, Switzerland, Monaco etc. have been doing this for years - acting as tax havens, and selling loopholes.

Nearer home, Ireland has recently been very hospitable and generous to Google, Apple, Microsoft, Facebook, Amazon, INTEL - and more.

It's not illegal when the appropriate legislation is passed.

And when we leave the EU, we will be busily replicating - to attract investment here.

to invest in what?

The money will follow corporations like Airbus IE to the EU.

People are living in Fantasy Land if they think Britain is going to become a 'tax haven'.

Besides Brexit won't happen, can't happen. As it unfolds that the (non-binding) referendum was skewered by illegal means it cannot go ahead- it will be illegal.
And just a matter of time before a legal challenge confirms that if the politcians are too stupid to take heed.

The compensation claims by business as the economy plunges if Brexit happened would bankrupt the country.

Still we are all being told to keep jumping off into the ravine because it's the "will of the people". ( I like that..clever. Sad it isn't my quote )

Don't listen to him, hedda - he's changed his name more often than you have !!!

btw I've got a new name for the brexiteers .... Gerinuts (because most of them are geriatric and they are "little England" nutters)

Bring back Vera Lynn, I say ! - no one sold more wax cylinders than her.

Brexit won't happen - Hedda?

Sadly it has to, or this country would lose any semblance of credibility.

However, your learned friend swore that the World Cup wouldn't occur this year - just like it didn't in 1994!