Stats on benefit fraud versus corporate tax evasion?

[Urbanblues]

Tax is the only area of the law which compels us to do something - I think education is the only other area that the law compels people to act in a certain way under threat of punishment.

There are areas of mental health, where patients are compelled to take medication under the threat of punishment.

 

[detective-boy]

There's no need to listen to detective-boy's T.I.N.A. rubbish.

Proof positive that some posters (like this cunt) IMAGINE my posts.

Apparently a simple factual link (to the font of all U75 knowledge, no less!) explaining the difference between tax evasion and tax avoidance and a picture of the moon on a stick (neither accompanied by any commentary at all) amount to "detective-boy's T.I.N.A. rubbish".

Never, in the field of prejudiced fuckwit history, has there ever been a more accurate user name ...

 

[butchersapron]

Take your tedious grudge chasing off this thread.

 

[detective-boy]

Take your tedious grudge chasing off this thread.

I take it that is addressed to fruitloop, who was the one who brought it here in the first place?

 

[butchersapron]

Take your moustache off this thread please.

 

[Fruitloop]

Proof positive that some posters (like this cunt) IMAGINE my posts.

Apparently a simple factual link (to the font of all U75 knowledge, no less!) explaining the difference between tax evasion and tax avoidance and a picture of the moon on a stick (neither accompanied by any commentary at all) amount to "detective-boy's T.I.N.A. rubbish".

Never, in the field of prejudiced fuckwit history, has there ever been a more accurate user name ...

If you don't like your posts mis-interpreted, perhaps you should be a little more fucking explicit, your truncheon-ness.

 

[detective-boy]

Take your moustache off this thread please.

Thank you for yet more evidence of the prejudiced monothought of the Urban 75 "elite" ... No right of defence or reply unless you are a paid up member or a wannabe, expressing ACAB views ...

 

[butchersapron]

ACABACABprejudicedmonothoughtoftheUrban75"elite"

 

[ViolentPanda]

Thank you for yet more evidence of the prejudiced monothought of the Urban 75 "elite" ... No right of defence or reply unless you are a paid up member or a wannabe, expressing ACAB views ...

"Someone jog the stylus, the record's stuck again".

 

[Paulie Tandoori]

eta .i must admit that i like the ideal of a society whereby its seen as a virtue to give over some of your profit or reward from your labours being handed over for common good.

soz 4 hippy-dippy bollox but aint in the mood for nowt else

 

[Fruitloop]

I can't see why an anatchistic society shouldn't have a tax opt-out, but the thing is that the opt-outers would be relying on their ability to purchase elsewhere what society currently provides, and under a more just economic system that would no longer be the case (unless they had some uniquely fantastic entirely self-taught skill that everyone else needed to the extent that they would waive the usual requirements for them).

 

[glenquagmire]

Kyser is right that tax is technically legalised extortion, so much so that income tax never actually made it into law in the USA. (Another story).

Still the state has to be paid for, and there is no doubt that those who make money, in whatever way in society should pay a certain amount of their income to finance it.

There are many people who gain from the land, both as landowners and as income earners. The income tax is generally fair, though I would prefer a higher tax-free bracket. But the land owners are not paying their fair share due to the tax changes under the last Conservative government. I want to see a replacement for the council tax which is based on who owns the land. All land owners could pay by the square metre, and that would even up the situation. At the moment the land owners hardly pay anything, while the poor pay too much, see below.

You a member of this lot?
http://www.labourland.org/

 

[Gmart]

You a member of this lot?
http://www.labourland.org/

I am aware of it, and the Land Value has to be a factor in any land tax, however it doesn't use the square metrage as a factor as well, and so it is IMO an inferior tax system.

Still anything's better than the council tax so it has to get a thumbs up