More Miliband errors?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-31231113
Further Miliband ineptitude, this time in the art of international diplomacy. Is no one providing him with advice on policy, or are his advisors deliberately setting him up for a fall?
Further Miliband ineptitude, this time in the art of international diplomacy. Is no one providing him with advice on policy, or are his advisors deliberately setting him up for a fall?
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The first step is to remove the secrecy.
Why???
Yes indeed.
But Conservative Treasury minister David Gauke said Mr Miliband's plan would not work because other OECD countries such as the US, France and Germany did not have a public central register.
Sounds pretty sensible. If he'd announced it earlier, someone else would have pinched it and declared it their own.
If he is this bumbling, incompetent fool and the Tories can't beat him what does that say about them?
The policy is a good one and a just one. George Osborne has also made the same soundbytes over the last few years. I don't trust either of of them to enact them.
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/dec/01/george-osborne-crackdown-tax-dodgers-voter-scepticism
It's election time - you really want to be taken in by this nonsense?
So George Osborne was also talking nonsense when he talked about cutting corporate tax avoidance?
Good to know.
Oh good grief.
Just because Ed Miliband is clearly talking nonsense - or, if you'd prefer, trying to score cheap political points - on tax evasion in offshore tax financial centres, why does that automatically mean that George Osborne is talking nonsense about cutting corporate tax avoidance?
Nonsense is in the eye of the beholder me thinks.
Rather as the ideal number of legs is probably somewhere between the extremes of two and four ;-)
I think most Arthropods would disagree with you (and molluscs).
The OECD's "list of uncooperative tax havens" has been empty since 2009, though 38 jurisdictions are on a list of those "committed to improving transparency and establishing effective exchange of information in tax matters".
The territories and dependencies written to by Mr Miliband are all on that list.
Labour argues overseas territories and crown dependencies could help to stop or stem tax avoidance by showing tax authorities who is diverting money into companies there.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-31173496
So all the names are already on a list. And Miliband's next move is precisely what?
Write them another pointless letter?
"He wants the OECD to blacklist countries if they don't do the same as us. But that would mean blacklisting every single country in the OECD apart from the UK - countries like the US, France and Germany. Once again, it's clear that Ed Miliband is simply not up to the job."
To increase income received through tax.
By what means?
Will it? The tax dodgers will just move elsewhere. There are plenty of small tax havens where a wannabe British PM has no influence. In the meantime you just damage the economies of countries which are British dependencies.
So when George Osborne talks cutting corporate tax avoidance that is good and when Ed Miliband does then it is bad.
I understand your point of view completely now.
:D:D:D:D:D:D
A track going nowhere.
Just like George Osborne's similar attempt/photo-op claiming that he would crack down on corporate tax evasion, eh?
Both are foolish if they believe the corporate world will let them but both are right to want to do something about it.
Government can only do what is lawful. They cannot impose their will on other sovereign nations.