You must be the only person in the country who wasn't mis-sold PPI

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I think that the ONLY tinkering of taxes that needs to be done in order to make a far great magnitude of difference to the economy is to ensure that business can't evade/avoid it....but this needs to be on an international level, as otherwise only Turkey's voting for Xmas would take it on!

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I read that the EU are fed up with tax evasion by companies and are considering taxing on turnover not profit.

That would put the cat among the pigeons.

That's where we differ, I think.
20% of 20K is 4k.
20% of 200K is 40K.
The 'rich' already pay far more in tax - increasing the percentage rate is what strikes me as unfair.

I like the lower end being tax free, that's fair enough to keep people from poverty and afford a decent standard of living, but to levy higher taxes on greater earnings makes little to no sense to me. It seems like a "you don't need it" approach, which may well be true but is fundamentally not fair.

If I choose to work loads of overtime, and the bloke next to me doesn't, why should I take home 60% of my wage while he takes home 80% (for exactly the same work done to the same standard) because I've passed some arbitrary threshold? I may be thrashing myself to save for a deposit on a house, to put a kid through university, or to buy a new kidney for great auntie Doris.

Wow! If true that would be both radical and daft! No startups would ever get going - lots of them make big losses in the early years, on what may be decent turnovers, also depending on the business area, they may be working on low profit margins.

I think the mega-businesses need to be targetted where they are quite clearly taking the p**s, but I don't have the first idea how to do that. Making your tax bill expensive in country A may well make the company not wish to do business there at all (may not, in itself, be a bad thing - maybe more competition on the high street).

Speaking as a landlord myself not ALL landlords are shysters...just as not all benefit claimants are.

For me having the money go straight into my account is beneficial for both my tennants and myself, it saves chasing for/and the chance for there to be any missed payments and it aids a good relationship between the two.

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