McDonalds Restaurants are shifting their HQ to Switzerland. It joins Kraft, Procter & Gamble, Google, Electronic Arts and Yahoo in switching from the UK to Switzerland as the corporate tax burden rises. Britain was at the top of the international competitiveness tables only a decade ago and has been sliding down ever since. Fewer corporations headquartering in the UK means more taxes for the rest…
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Max Clifford says…
“Most people want to read nasty things about people, not nice things.”
Maybe if they really wanted to “decontaminate the Labour brand” with business people, they shouldn’t have totally buggered up the economy?
Just a thought.
New Labour bums have got to go, before we are all in the workhouse.
Was McDonalds HQ still in East Finchley?
Do the workers stay and just a PO box taken out in Switzerland, or does the whole corporate office move.
Does the old office become the new slimmed down UK branch HQ?
Must be some people here who have had this happen recently.
I think the McDonalds building by the tube station is now some sort of community college.
My brother was P&G Vice president until last October, so I could not possibly comment.
I AM A GENIUS
And the taxodus will become a flood once the carbon credit scam really begins to bite…
Its another of Pa Broone ‘Prudence’ plans coming to fruition…. Tax and Spend like it was going out of fashion. Just like drunks on a Pub crawl….. thank Mr Brown, Teflon B’Liar, Meddlesome-Pete and all you farking muppets…
I hope your b*llox rot and rop off…. you arrse-holes……
Bugger, that means its ‘Beer ‘O Clock’… I will have to go down to Ye ‘Red Lion’ for a few jars of Speshul Bru and seeks arrse-alution form ye Landlord….
Looks like the McMental’s scorched earth policy is working an absolute treat.
A product of long term planning, consensus in the Labour Party, and a ringing endorsement from Tony Blair.
The UK just needs to import many more contributors from Somalia, and Ethiopia, and Romania. A million or so from each, and the foundations are set for a leading Caliphate.
Makes you proud to be British!
What makes me proud to be British is that Civil Servant Lisa Greenwood was sacked for criticizing Hazel Blears in Blog comment, while (Muslim) Civil Servant Azad Ali – who wrote “If I saw an American or British man wearing a soldier’s uniform inside Iraq I would kill him because that is my obligation” – has been exonerated and returned to his job in the Treasury.
I can feel the pride just bursting out of me!
Welcome to Englandistan infidel pigdog.
The “Angry Aberdonian” says: “What makes me proud to be British is that Civil Servant Lisa Greenwood was sacked for criticizing Hazel Blears in Blog comment.”
It wasn’t a blog comment (that was misreported by the Telegraph). She actually sent an insulting e-mail directly to Hazel Blears (who was then still a minister) using her immediately identifiable civil service e-mail. If she wanted to insult a minister the stupid woman should have sent the e-mail anonymously from home.
Wouldn’t I just love to explain my obligations to this civil service prick!
All according to ‘plan’ – financial control and diktat from Brussels.
Are you listening Gordon?
Since the start of 2008, WPP, Shire, Regus, Henderson, Charter, Beazley, Brit Insurance and UBM have all announced that they are moving their tax base out of the UK.
Shell also did a few years back. BP also considered becoming a US domiciled company a few years ago.
Be serious. If he is it’ll be an historic occasion.
He can listen all he wants, but as a total nutter, he simply won’t understand.
I left the UK a few years ago, priced-out by Nu Labour. I’d hoped to return one day when sanity prevailed, but now fear I’ll never be able to. The cost of living/quality of life equation just doesn’t add up for Britain nowadays; it’s one of the worst countries in europe to live in thanks to Blair, Brown & Co. A basket case country; europe’s answer to Zimbabwe in Africa. And next year it’ll be worse still, and yet more indigenous Brits will be forced to flee abroad. The entire country is fast disappearing down the shitter, folks. Is it simple incompetence or something more sinister?
Don’t worry. In our wonderful multicultural society, there are millions of immigrants who will take up the jobs vacated by those who are leaving. The immigrants are multi-skilled. For example, they know and understand the intricacies of the benefits system and how to maximise their claims, while at the same time, concentrating on their most important and full time occupations of breeding families of no less than ten children and bringing in still more immigrants to marry their offspring. You could never argue that these people are anything other than highly industrious. And of course, they are loyal, not to the UK, but to Pakistan or wherever they originate from. Their loyalty extends to maintaining the life style of their country of origin and make no concession to the UK that provided them with refuge from the “persecution” back home.
Yes, we are blessed and those individuals and companies who leave the UK, have misunderstood how well off we are and have been under Blair, Brown, Harriet Harpic et al.
WHY?
Guido, your problem is that you do not like to read the truth aout thi scountry and what is happening to it. That is why you “moderated” ie censored, my submission. Shame on you!
Don’t blame him, you sound like a twat
Delete this at your peril!
Well said. But be careful, you will be classed as ‘racist’ for speaking the TRUTH.
Not racist. Just an idiot.
And when the UK finally becomes a poverty stricken third world country full of immigrants living under Sharia law, where will they look to emigrate to? – not that I will care because I will be dead by then anyway. The climate should suit them, though – what did Al Gore predict by 2080 – 150 degrees wasn’t it?
If it were only incompetence, you might reasonably expect the opposition not to be so afflicted.
Instead, since 1997 we’ve had Tories and LibDems wetter than two ha’porth of tripe, with Call Me Dave the nadir of sharts.
You can poo poo conspiracy theories till the cows come home but what else fits? The entire Parliament secretly infected with bovine spongiform encephalopathy?
The Socialists did it on purpose. They hate everthing and anything about Great Britain. They want to crush us, make us stupid, keep us poor, and live in their palaces lapping up luxury that we can’t afford.
We are going to have to shoot them.
Just like Saddam!
What is the point at which incompetence becomes treason? How do we recognise it?
We’re beyond that point, so much power has been transferred to Brussels that it’ll be very difficult to regain true sovereignty.
Well. Traditionaly Tories want to kick them out or get tougher, and Labour expect new arrivals to vote Labour based on the fact the tories want to get tough! Watch out for refugees and illegals coming to a key marginal near you!
Edinburgh and glasgow have been flooded over the past 2 years.Now we have gangs of roaving and seriously criminal Gambian drug dealers running about.
Don’t get me wrong. If they are genuine they desserve our support, but these passport ripping up chancers should just be put straight back on a plane.
Magadishu East (Bristol) is a prime example of folk who cannot speak english falling for the Labour canvassers bull and fear mongering.
I don’t blame you guido but at least say thanks to me next time. You must have read my comment yesterday, which incidentally no one commented on!
It’s my comment to a tea! Wanna partner?
thanks Anonymous doesn’t sound right….
Who are you?
In the immortal words of Princess Leia to Darth Vader: “the tighter you squeeze your grip, the more that will slip away through your fingers.”
Another version of J Curve.
For each Big Mac that emigrates there are a hundred Guy Hands/Crispin Odeys/Peter Hargreaves.
Take Hargreaves. Pays around £3.2million tax a year. Brown wants another £300k from him to ensure ‘fairplay’. Hargeaves moves to Jersey. Net loss to Treasury £3.2m.
What is it about socialists who are prepared to give the lives of their constituents in exchange for favourable headlines in The Guardian?
To tuscan tony. Excellent quote! secondly I went to your website and would like to say that your taste in top foreign totty is first class!! Well done sir!!!
Shouldn’t that be “the tighter you squeeze your great clunking fist”?
“In the immortal words of Princess Leia to Darth Vader: “the tighter you squeeze your grip, the more that will slip away through your fingers.”
Especially if these ZanuLab-Pf Wnakers wnak faster than they can get RSI.
Mr Cyclops Broone, Lord Meddlesone-pete and pals are all in a Turd Polishing Contest. The more they try to apply the Science of Turd Polishing to the ZanuLab Party, the more it becomes what it truly is – a bucket of political pooh, sloshing around in a miasma of sleaze, lies, spin, bullshit, crud, crap, control-freakery, bollox…..
All good descriptors of the Party of Class Hatred and Petty Midned Jobsworth Vindictivenss… Now where’s my can of ‘Special Brew’
Its ‘Beer O’Clock’… so I must seek arrselution from Ye Pub Landlord…
Its really rather absurd how some people word this problematic, on reporting such an issue I would’ve said McDonalds joins other conglomerates who feels that their shit don’t stink and that if their taxes are cut, not only do their consumers pay for the taxes of their products, but they would also be burdened with the taxes that these corporations don’t want to pay. In their eyes, they should pay less tax and we should pay more. We have in place a system that says the poor should not be burdened with as much tax as the rich – of course this doesn’t suit our fast food friends, so they clear off – they give nothing back. Its blackmail through and through.
Now if this was gypsies, who lived here but paid taxes elsewhere you’d be up in arms, but you find it much more pleasing to pour scorn on high taxes for high earners and give into their blackmail. Awful.
“Now if this was gypsies, who lived here but paid taxes elsewhere you’d be up in arms….”
Gypsies paying taxes anywhere would be a first!
topical, not funny, but topical
There’s work for the gypsies in the police. For some reason, there’s a dire shortage of the stout fellows and lasses in the force, according to The Daily Express. No shortage of them in the cells though, which is odd.
And gypsies who don’t want to travel!
but that’s becasue as a socialist, you think any one that earns money, that money becomes yours. Socialist don’t want to work to earn money but they are always quick and happy to take it off people who do.
I can’t understand why any one would want to set up a business in the UK any more. All labours’ legislation has been for the employee, to make life easier for them, instead of creating an environment where businesses can flourish, where people can earn money and pay thier fair share of tax. Labour has done of those things. In fact exactly the opposite and that is why the companies are leaving in droves and who can blame them. i’d like to see research into the minimim wage and see how many jobs this has cost. You need look no further than woolies. In stead of emplying ten people, now only 7 are employed, living OFF THE STATE INSTEAD.
LABOUR HAVE BROUGHT THIS COUNTRY TO ITS KNEES AGAIN AS THEY DID IN THE SEVENTIES. IMF HERE WE COME.
Nonsense, firstly socialists don’t want to work, your comment beggars belief. Secondly, higher rates for higher earnings reflect what is fair, by percentage. The alternative is that high earnings are unduly slashed and are either found in lower earnings or cuts in the public sector. This is what should be protected, a working and subsidised public sector, and fair taxes for the poor, and if this means a fair tax rate for the rich, then so be it. Like it or not, the said conglomerate has abandoned us, we haven’t alienated them, why are you letting them get away with it by blaming the people who have tried damn hard to curb unfair tax measures for the rich. Before Labour they were getting away with it, their blackmail’s had won, now they have turned their backs on what is fair, and my god if they looked at this thread they would be on their knees with laughter.
you are talking absolute bollocks, typical socialist garbage claptrap. just what got us into this mess in the first place
Tax and spend, tax and spend, tax and spend, squeeze them til there pips squeak! it’s the age old labour mantra.
Taxing to redistribute wealth, it’s basically a national scale ‘secret santa’ scheme ~ Everyone ends up with a shitty christmas present they didn’t want!
Typical ZaNu propaganda from raincoatoptimism.
In fact, taxes on the poor in this country have just been increased by Gordoom (10 percent income tax hike). The marginal tax rate for the low paid is 70 percent or more coming off benefits, far more than for the rich under Liebore. ZaNu is bad news for poor people.
As for the Businesses that are moving from the UK, which is better: taxes at 30 per cent paid to the governments coffers; or taxes at 35 per cent that drive businesses away which then don’t pay any tax? Only a socialist moron cannot see that tribal hostility to business is needlessly costly and counterproductive.
URR-K-KEEERRKK! GETYERAIRSCUT! WAAARK!
Would you like to tell me how much and where Mr & Mrs Blairs’ new found wealth has been redistributed?
If ever a group of people were in something to squeeze as much as they could out of it, it’s Labour. Now wonder businesses are fleeing or shore’s, and rather than properly examine why; you just want to throw stones.
Money keeps businesses here, conditions where they can make money keeps businesses here. Take those things away and they all bugger orf to somewhere that can accomodate their needs.
You never achieved ‘o’ level maths did you, lefty twat?
20% of 50,000 is more than 20% of 10,000. People earning more, under a flat rate scheme, already pay more tax than people earning less.
Now fuck off until you understand.
If Labour are the champion of the poor why haven’t they abolished the telly tax, as it is a flat rate tax and therefore hits the poor more than the rich
In fact, its worse than that. The only reason that the IMF aren’t here already is that they don’t have enough to bail us out.
Fuck you Brown.
appeals to swearing and argument ad hominem, anonymous, are typical of many things…
I was thinking just that the other day – is it that the IMF is just not set up for the failure of such a large economy as the UK. They are used to helping out much smaller economies than ours, in fact I don’t think they’ve bailed out anyone as big since they were in the UK 30 years ago?
With Iceland being bailed out last year, how much do the IMF actually have available in reserve to help us, even if an incoming Tory government were to ask for it?
Hardwidge in drag, again…
Sonny, you need to take a basic course in economics to show who actually pays taxes irrespective of who they are collected from.
Gosh, what a total surprise this is. Who would have guessed? Nothing to do with excessive and rising taxation by this bunch of cretinous and utterly incompetent individuals called a government I suppose?
Well done McBust, you are moving ever closer to your aim of a totally bankrupt, third-rate country.
It’s enough to make you weep.
Yet another “success” for that architect and giant of the economy, Jonah McDoom then ..
Knobber couldn’t run a Piggy Bank …
That’ll teach those bastard Tories to try and dethrone the Saviour of the World. Lets see them fix the mess he is leaving behind.
Which saviour of the would that be? McBroon or Obuma? They both promised the same thing. Want to bet that neither of them will achieve it?
What did the Government really expect? Large companies will locate themselves wherever it is most convenient and cost effective for them to do so in terms of the availability and price of labour and resources, and the costs of being in any particular place.
Look how many companies relocated to Ireland in the past 10 years as corporation tax was very low. Look at how companies like Dell are now following the EU money to Poland and Lithuania from Ireland, as it becomes less competitive in the international marketplace for skilled manufacturing and assembly plants.
Wait until the 50% personal tax rate comes in and we’ll see more and more people leaving too.
As the moniker suggests, I’m not based in the UK – every day I meet more and more British expats, most of them like me former higher-rate taxpayers who just got so fucked off with being raped by this government and seeing nothing in return, bar rising crime and an increasing “client state” and public sector, being paid by the rest of us to be unproductive.
People talk about immigration being a problem, emigration is just as much of a problem when the people emigrating could otherwise be productive taxpayers in the UK.
Will the last person to leave once-Great Britain please switch off the lights…
How much are Russian slappers now where you work pal?
Can’t say I know from experience, but the rules of supply and demand say it will be cheaper than this time last year – and of course it depends if you want a six-foot model type for the night, or an ugly fat one who goes with 10 guys a day!!
Good God Steve. She told me I was the only one she loved.
How do fat ugly ones get 10 punters a day? I thought they were lucky to get one a month.
Well, there’s one thing you can always reckon on: we’ve got Jeffrey Archer. Now what could be more British than that?
‘Headquartering’? What kind of word is that?
It’s a word that means “where you are punished for being financially successful”.
if it’s something you do with two bits of cheese wire, I really don’t want to know…
The entire Waad estate was backed into a Liechtenstein Anstalt many years ago. I don’t know why everybody doesn’t do the same. Thanks to my Cyprus Offshore Companies and their ‘genuine trading status’ I don’t have to bother with VAT either and domicile in Mauritius takes care of the Inheritance Tax.
Still working on charitable status to reduce the bloody business rates but can’t be too greedy!
Pip-pip!
Bill, thats a lot of effort. Why no just stand as an MP?
Some don’t get it yet.
This is a war on we the people to destroy the middle class. How else could the few continue to control the many other than neutering those who were once financially able to stand up to this fascist agenda.
Communitarianism and sustainability are the new black.
Next.
Quite right, Spooky Suky. The financial meltdown, swine flu, Wacko Jacko’s (alledged) death, didn’t happen by accident. Destruction of the middle classes to serfdom is the name of the game. Alas, conspiracy theories are back!
Dear All
If McDonalds move how will George ‘the wallpaper man’ Osborne do his man of the people act?
Mind you; he is a pudgy bastard.
It’s a difficult one chaps!
Yours sincerely
George Laird
The Campaign for Human Rights at Glasgow University
scotland good at football and great goalkeepers. luv alcohol too.
very good too at losing battles and getting other people to pay for their spending.
U on about culloden? That was Scottish highlanders vs lowlanders.
Plus u seen the SPL?
Don’t forget the German mercenaries under the Hun King[not the Ibrox one]
PRETTYJORGY! PRETTYJORGY! ARKK! BALDIE!
Dear Mr Slater’s Parrot
“PRETTYJORGY! PRETTYJORGY! ARKK! BALDIE!”
Here is a story to upset you from my blog.
It is the typical tale of a humble Glaswegian pottering about the place.
Dear All
Last night I was travelling home on the 54 bus when all hell broke out. A commotion started down the front of the bus as a woman realised that her elderly friend had taken ill. At first no one seemed to know the seriousness of the situation as it appeared that her pal was still conducting a conversation with her sick friend.
Then the woman getting no response cried out that she couldn’t feel a pulse.
The driver pulled the bus over and came to see what the problem was; the old lady was still sitting in her seat having not cried out in pain at any time. Someone then said to move her into the bus well to lay her down flat.
I thought she was being moved so that first aid was getting carried out but I was wrong, the driver who I expected to take charge and administered mouth to mouth and first aid stayed motionless.
I was up the back when the hysteria started and after the bus stopped half the passengers done a runner.
After realising the seriousness I acted getting the driver to help me move her from the well of the bus to the buggy area, I started mouth to mouth and CPR till the ambulance turned up and the paramedics did their thing.
I then helped the ambulance staff by carrying the oxygen cylinder to their vehicle.
I tried my very best to save her.
Her name was Ann; she was in her mid 70’s and had just returned from having a day out with her friend down the coast.
I don’t think she suffered.
Yours sincerely
George Laird
The Campaign for Human Rights at Glasgow University
How will the Labour voters eat?
Can’t the New Labour crowd move to Switzerland instead??
they have a sturdy immigration policy and they don’t let nazis in any more
Every Swiss man has got a SIG assault rifle at home. The NuLabor fucktards wouldn’t last five minutes.
Has Ronald gone with them as a Tax exile? Hope so, always annoyed the hell out of me.
And so the slow rot continues, thanks Gordon now fuck off and die.
Bearing in mind the precedent of Guido’s eternal sufferance of Charlie Tao, perhaps we could attempt a mass, co-ordinated voodoo pin-sticking of Wee Gordie on here.
An Internet first, eh, Guido.
And Charlie could donate the graphics fidelity, of course.
The thing that frightens me the most about a Labour government is that is suppresses enterprise – Alan Sugar, 1992.
What a short-arsed little spiv! I wish a contestant on one of his wanky TV shows would bring that up–little Huhne.
Would you buy a used car from Alan Sugar?
People bought used PCs from him.
The Gerald Ratner of the computer industry
Good old labour…they fuck the country by driving out anyone who actually generates wealth, or provides meanigful jobs. We then end up with a country full of social inclusion workers, diversity officers, and other such parasites. The state takes over…oh…just like the former USSR…. it’s the dream they’ve been wanking over since they they were in university marxist societies, now they are trying to make it come true.
But who pays for it all, if everyone productive has emigrated?
‘I have a cunning plan, my Lord: now I’m quite good at washing…’
‘Really, Baldrick? I must say I never noticed…’
‘No, Sir, not that sort of washing! No, Sir, all that washing of the sweat out of your arm-pits, the grot out of your…’
‘That’s fine, Baldrick: I get the picture! Thank Heaven no-one’s yet invented the Smellies!’
‘The Smellies, Sir! That’s what the other members of the family used to call us! How did you know that!’
‘Let’s just say, intuition, Baldrick: that, and a pretty effective nose.’
‘Any way, Sir, as I was saying: the washing.’
‘So you were, unbelievably, Baldrick, so you were.’
‘Don’t be like that, sir: it’s a simple plan, really.’
‘Simple, eh? I wonder why?’
‘Well, Sir, your clothes need washing, from time to time, don’t they… and you usually pay that Mistress Hare-lip, what iiijd.?’
‘A Groat, Baldrick, yes, a Groat. Once a month, or so: sometimes, a bit oftener.’
‘Like, after you’ve been to Mrs. Miggins’ – and then had a few blackjacks of ale at The French Crown, and not quite made it to the Jakes…’
‘Thank you, Baldrick. Let’s leave the subject, shall we?’
‘Well, Sir: you give me your hose and cod-piece, and shirt to wash, and pay me the Groat you’d have paid Fanny Hare-lip.’
‘I see, turnip-head. And, I suppose, you go off to find the nearest drab who’ll give you a fourpenny one?’
‘Oh no, Sir: I did say this was a cunning plan, didn’t I? I give my dirty clothes to someone else to wash, and pay them the fourpence.’
‘Oh, come on, Baldrick: what human being worthy of the name, what sentient person, would not throw up, vomit, retch, at the mere thought of your small-clothes: a groat to wash them? No sane human… Ah, Lord Percy. Good of you to drop in. Now, you know how expensive washerwomen have become lately’
‘Really? I hadn’t noticed. Must be all this clipping.’
‘Clipping? Ah! You too read the Nostradamus Times. Personally, I’m not yet convinced that ‘bad coinage will drive out good’. I mean, surely, the good always drives out the bad! Enough of that: I bet you a groat that you won’t wash Baldrick’s clothes…’
The IMF again
But do the IMF have enough money to bale us out?
Yep, their sixth form circle jerk politics are coming (no pun intended) to end the wicked nationalist England via their EU masters and as good little students they are happy to help in its destruction.
It is childish I know… but I just thought I’d use this post to register just how much I despise Labour and the way that they have destroyed this country with their misguided do-gooder bollox.
Total and utter arseh0les.
Good point, well made, I salute you.
People are fucking seething mad – and by people I am talking about working/producing class people – not the fucking scum sucking chav spongers, ‘asylum seekers’ and multicultural five a day organic veg coordinators who ‘work’ for Nu Labour’s socialist utopia. If only call me fucking Dave would grow a pair and take on the labour Huhnes as Thatcher did he would realise that the ‘working’ class that still exists as in blue collar people who actually fucking work for a living vote for him. Until then, I expect more ‘liberal’ bullshit from the Tories as they work hard to please the Grandiauda readers in Islington and loose the election.
They are only private sector scum anyway. Who needs them? McGay just borrows what he can’t get in taxes. Problem solved.
He’s areal smart guy is McBum Fancier.
He sure is. And if he can’t borrow the dosh, he prints it. Hooray! Sorted.
Worked so well for Mugabe, let’s hope it’s as successful for us.
What nulabour and the rest just don’t get is the fact that there is no justification for all that taxation in the first place. JD.
Would you like a helping of large lies with Your big McMental?
Guido, add to your list Alliance Healthcare PLC (for whom Patsy Hewitt provides consultancy services) – and parent company of Unichem and Boots. They set up Alliance Healthcare AG, Zug early last year as the new parent company and migrated to Switzerland because Stefano Pessina had had enough of Brownfinger’s tax and squander regime, as well as the red tape and reporting hoops the company had to jump through each and every quarter.
YES!!
I am so glad Gordon is doing his bit for global equality.
The sooner our lifestyle accords with sub Saharan Africa, the sooner Jonathon Porritt will come round and give us all a medal made out of recycled paper.
Assuming we can afford to recycle paper by then, of course. It is quite expensive to do, after all.
People will be stealing and burning paper just to keep warm….
It’s right that you call it Taxodus. What is happening in this country is ruination on a Biblical scale.
It won’t matter when we are all one Europe.
Oh! The Swiss aren’t in the EU………;)
How can this be?
Richard Murphy said corporations talk a good game about leaving over confiscatory taxation but never do:
“Every time there is a threat to the rich that they will be taxed a little bit more, we have no evidence that they’ve actually left,” Murphy said. “You are in the UK economy because it’s a great place to make money. It’s also quite a cool place to live.”
“No evidence” continues to mount.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2009/may/01/informa-budget-tax-switch
Forget McDonalds, Comrades. Semen production is up again at an all time high. Mass unemployment has led to an increase in masturbation. Keep up the good work, brothers and sisters.
A new variety of Soylent Green will soon be available with your victory gin.
I’ll drink to that. Face the telly screen, I love big EUbrother.
I’ve been reading Catcher in the Rye. I’ve heard it can lead to people committing suicide. Should I carry on reading is the question….
That’s a bit ungrateful of McDonalds after HM Government gave them millions of pounds in ‘training’ subsidies for apprentices (for which read ‘gave them millions of pounds to keep the youth unemployment market from rising too high).
Dear Gorden Browne,
Congratulashuns Sir! you’s a damned fine politishun an economic whizz!
Still, fancy takin me idea fo’ de free fall market economy an not doin a betta job then me. De course is simple all you’s gotta do now is to get de inflashun into de six figures an printin the new money wiv u own damned face on it befo de general poppulace is gettin wrestless an plottin de coo an sim’lar..
Lemme tell you’s, you doan want to allow them to get to fresh overwise de is soon putting da windahs froo of de mighty No10.
Hmmm, if de gettin to many ideas bou’t de coo it’s easy stamped out wiv de soft chatter o’ de mighty tommy guns an de 500 volts roun’ de testertickles of de oppersitshun at 3am in de mornin, but doan lettin dat shami chakributtie hear cos she gota big mouf an soon de whole damn worl is knowin what yous’ gettin up to!
Hmm, i tellin yous’ you cant beat de smack o’ de firm gumment on a clear nite! If de smack is hard enuff they is hearin it in Paris!
Still, i is havin to takin de hat off to you’s as you done mo’ damage in 12yrs than any African leader in de livin memory an yous’ aint had to shootin no one.
Your’s,
Brother Bobby.
You mad fucknugget. What do you want, Britain as a tax haven?
Which Switzerland isn’t going to be anymore. If you took your finger off your prostate for two seconds and read something other than your list of RSS feed grudges, you’d realise that Switzerland is rapidly shifting its tax laws and corporate relations to get itself off the OECD black list.
It’s not the UK headquarters that are moving, either – it’s the European HQ. They’re fucking over the entire EU, not just the UK. Which is why the Swiss are on the grey list in the first place.
And that’s a bad thing, why? I have to say, I’d rather enjoy living in a UK classed as a tax haven by a Parisian bureaucracy. If anything, it’d annoy the French.
Note that reason number one for being classed as a tax haven is to have low tax rates. The OECD classes low tax rates as a bad thing, and always a bad thing. Taxes should always be high, according to them. Stupid European eejits.
Of course they do. The OECD is populated by the professional politician class and anything that stops them getting first bite of the cherry of hard earned money is seen as bad. You just don’t understand. The purpose of the private setor is to keep the political class in the style in which it intends to be come accustomed. So all of you, stop squealing and get back to working double shifts to pay your tax to keep the politicians.
No sir. Reason number one is a distinct lack of required transparency regarding tax affairs, coupled with taking advantage of EEC or Commonwealth links to other OECD countries where the tax rate is significantly higher.
Reason number one is, simply, aiding tax avoidance in the countries where the companies get the majority of their business.
Labour and business just don’t mix, like having coke in your gin. I am looking forward to the Labour Party conference. It will be fun to watch the ferrets in the sack, and to see if Labour are daft enough to keep Brown as PM, Dave is holding his breath and keeping his fingers crossed that they keep him. But either way Labour are now “the nothing party”, they have nothing left to offer. If Brown stays and fights the election it will be fun to watch him on the oppostion back benches, this is the only thing to look forward to really…..chins up chaps!
I’m coming increasingly to the view that whenever you come across a cock-up, you are right to assume a conspiracy behind it. How otherwise can one account for Harriet Harman?
By getting all these evil rich people to leave the country, the average income comes down, and therefore you are lifting children out of poverty. It is the right thing to do, and it all started in America
So much for responsible businesses. Its not as if companies don’t fiddle their transfer pricing in other tax wheezes.
It was other big businesses led by selfish bankers who got us in this mess in the first place. However lax the regulation, no one forced these paragons of free market capitalism to make the dodgy loans: they must accept responsibility for their actions. Would you lend YOUR cash to someone off the street with no income, no job and no assets? Thought not.
you really are pretty dumb aren’t you ? You are criticizing Corporatism not free market capitalism. Btw yes responsibility for actions should be the order of the day – none of that from the thieving communitarian scum that call them selves a government.
– Tax is theft
we did a mcdonalds and moved to Switzerland 6 years ago. won’t be back anytime soon unless / until Gordon buggers off – the Swiss think he’s a joke.
My Brother-in-Law heads up one of UniLever’s divisions and they all moved out to Switzerland 2 years ago. The previous head office is still in the UK but is now simply a “regional office” with all key staff now in Zurich.
There desision at the time was not just tax based but also less EU regulations, laws etc
“McDonalds” and “restaurant” are words that sit very uncomfortably together.
Not that I’ve ever visited a McDonalds, you understand.
McDonalds -aren’t they big on this ‘diversity’ racket ?
Never employ an indigene when a recent immigrant will do.
Well let ‘em clear off to Switzerland I say though I’d prefer Rwanda.
That Huhne fucker Brown – piece of shit.
Bexie is off too. Fed up with menacing letters from the gangsters at HMRC demanding payment for tax already paid, she has a job in Switzerland. Bye Bye tax hell britain.