so you can steal almost 70K from the tax payer and expect only 1 year but steal 40K from an employer and you get 4-5 years... how does that work!
“The guidelines under which I operate, for an offence of this type, involving nearly £40,000 from an employer, you would be expected to receive a sentence of between four and five years.”
"fraudulently obtaining £70,000 in housing benefit over an eight-year period, which the judge took into consideration: “For an offence of that nature the sentence would be of the order of 12 months"
.... are of course the likes of Google, Amazon and Apple. If just these three companies were to pay a "proper" amount of tax the Revenue would probably benefit to the tune of several £Billion a year. And this could easily be done by having a minimum level of deemed profitability (based on their worldwide income) to calculate their CT and by closing VAT loopholes.
After all these companies bring no benefit to the UK economy in terms of jobs etc. so there would be no risk in doing so.
really...
go into any apple shop and there are just as many staff (Employed!) as there are customers, not to mention the rent & rates they also have to pay.
If HMRC did a deal with Apple (not sure about Google & Amazon) to reduce their corp tax to 12% the same as what they pay for having their HQ in ireland, then we might just get a bit more tax.
My answers
Still only 13 years for 32m
thats a salary of just over 2 million a year
need the funds
littlewood clearly need some funds...
sooner littlewoods goes under the better imo
Stealing
so you can steal almost 70K from the tax payer and expect only 1 year but steal 40K from an employer and you get 4-5 years... how does that work!
“The guidelines under which I operate, for an offence of this type, involving nearly £40,000 from an employer, you would be expected to receive a sentence of between four and five years.”
"fraudulently obtaining £70,000 in housing benefit over an eight-year period, which the judge took into consideration: “For an offence of that nature the sentence would be of the order of 12 months"
somethings not right here!
Apple Tax
really...
go into any apple shop and there are just as many staff (Employed!) as there are customers, not to mention the rent & rates they also have to pay.
If HMRC did a deal with Apple (not sure about Google & Amazon) to reduce their corp tax to 12% the same as what they pay for having their HQ in ireland, then we might just get a bit more tax.
why
without trying to sound rude - what was the point in this article?