There are facts and there are what Rout chooses to believe.
Have a little look at these recent amazon purchases, note the amazon eu S.a.r.L. on all the invoices, this means the transaction is filtered via luxembourg for tax purposes. Anyone with amazon check your invoices, especially for digital media and books where amazon is the seller.

Why you are fixated with Boris Johnson is beyond me, this started decades ago and only in recent years has hmrc started getting ruff with companies going against the spirit of the rules, I remember a big expose around 2006 where they visited amazon's head office in luxembourg and found a small building with one person behind a desk, presumably you believe she took all the orders, processed them, picked them and then delivered them. You can just say you're wrong you know routy, save you looking up more conspiracy theories.

So the share profit sharing is a "conspiracy theory"

https://www.taxjustice.net/2018/08/10/w ... in-the-uk/

https://www.channel4.com/news/factcheck ... little-tax

Ita got very little to do with the EU. Starbucks uses Switzerland for example....

Nothing will change in terms of corporations using loopholes and havens when we are out of the EU. It's a globalisation issue if anything. Plus the fact that the tax system has been deliberately designed to be hugely convoluted so that 99% of the population dont understand what's going on right in front of their noses.

We are actually agreeing on the issue at hand, I just find the suggestion that leaving the EU will improve the problem at all. In fact I expect it to get worse.

Starbucks European 'royalties' are paid to Starbucks Coffee EMEA BV in the Netherlands but it wouldn't matter if it was Switzerland as they are in EFTA and as such accept eu single market rules, an associate member so to speak. So it is an eu issue.

Lets look forward to all this extra revenue that's about to start flooding in after this year!

5 years of no or negative growth after this is over.

Yeah your right, prospects for the economy are pretty bleak for the foreseeable future but we all know that this great country will bounce back an that's why we love it.

nikkiboy wrote:5 years of no or negative growth after this is over.

And what about after Corona?

Rout wrote: ↑Sun Apr 19, 2020 5:40 pm

nikkiboy wrote:5 years of no or negative growth after this is over.

And what about after Corona?

Lowest numbers for a few days announced today. No mention on BBC NEWS though?

Demonloy wrote:

Rout wrote: ↑Sun Apr 19, 2020 5:40 pm

nikkiboy wrote:5 years of no or negative growth after this is over.

And what about after Corona?

Lowest numbers for a few days announced today. No mention on BBC NEWS though?

It's on the headline story on the bbc news website and in lots of other places. Reported as breaking news at 2.30pm and revisited throughout the day.

Ok maybe I was wrong there, and probably a stupid comment

Demonloy wrote: ↑Mon Apr 20, 2020 2:26 am Ok maybe I was wrong there, and probably a stupid comment

Shapps spoke well tonight

Demonloy wrote:

Demonloy wrote: ↑Mon Apr 20, 2020 2:26 am Ok maybe I was wrong there, and probably a stupid comment

Shapps spoke well tonight

Most interesting one for a while, helped by a different minister being there and the lovely Jenny.

Ginge wrote: ↑Fri Apr 24, 2020 6:22 pm

Demonloy wrote:

Demonloy wrote: ↑Mon Apr 20, 2020 2:26 am Ok maybe I was wrong there, and probably a stupid comment

Shapps spoke well tonight

Most interesting one for a while, helped by a different minister being there and the lovely Jenny.

Thought you didn’t like birds.

She speaks very well and is more engaging than her boss. Am I allowed to say that?

Ginge wrote: ↑Fri Apr 24, 2020 6:29 pm She speaks very well and is more engaging than her boss. Am I allowed to say that?

You didn’t say that, you said ‘the lovely Jenny’.

She is lovely. But not in that way.

I’ve just looked at her pic, I’ll pass as well.

I love her short brown bob, black-rimmed glasses and measured tone.

ChrisW wrote: ↑Fri Apr 24, 2020 9:13 pm I love her short brown bob, black-rimmed glasses and measured tone.

She has definitely become more impressive