The benefits of being rich are numerous, and probably don’t need a great deal of explanation from me. The ability to travel the world at the drop of a hat is, I imagine, one of the many advantages great wealth brings, as is the possibility of doing away with a number of the banal inconveniences […]
Posts Tagged ‘Tax Dodgers’
Make super-rich Brits pay their fair (very large) share
Aug 30th, 2011 by Michael Meacher.It’s remarkable that the hyper-rich in France (Bettencourt and others) and in the US (Warren Buffett and others) are now calling at a time of austerity that they should be taxed more. Not a peep however out of the hyper-rich in Britain. Yet they, more than any of such wealth anywhere else in the world […]
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Growth dividend plus ultra-rich 2011 gains could pay off entire deficit
May 9th, 2011 by Michael Meacher.The obvious question raised by the Sunday Times Rich List, published yesterday, is why the 1,000 richest persons in this country are not making any contribution to paying off Britain’s public deficit. These 1,000, just 0.002% 0f the population, all have wealth in excess of £70m, some 100 times as much – there are 73 […]
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YouGov poll says the public support UK Uncut tactics
Apr 4th, 2011 by Jon Lansman.A YouGov poll out today reveals that about three-quarters of the public support the tactics of civil disobedience adopted by UK Uncut. In answer to the question of whether “peaceful civil disobedience (such as people staging sit-ins or occupying shops)… was an acceptable or unacceptable way of protesting,” 73% of people said it was acceptable and […]
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The anti-cuts movement needs direction
Feb 1st, 2011 by Owen Jones.It is easy to take for granted that we have a movement against this Government at all. We’re only 9 months into Cameron’s Britain, and already thousands of people are willing to march again and again in freezing temperatures. On Saturday’s anti-cuts demo in London, I felt the same pride I have felt at each […]
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Taxing the rich – the poll evidence
Jan 30th, 2011 by Jon Lansman.Anyone concerned about growing inequality, who thinks that tax policies need to be more progressive than those of either the Tory-led government or its New Labour predecessors, has cause for celebration this morning. The latest YouGov poll for today’s Sunday Times shows clear public backing for taxing the rich. Forty-nine per cent think the top […]
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Corporate Britain is running scared
Jan 22nd, 2011 by Jon Lansman.We know that web-based organisations like Wikileaks and UKUncut are doing a great job, but it is still gratifying to read that corporate Britain is running scared as a result. The question is will it make the tax dodgers clean up their act. PR Week gives us some clues, but it’s not god news! The […]
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Some alternatives to the VAT rise
Jan 5th, 2011 by Michael Meacher.What a cheek! Osborne asks if he didn’t increase VAT, what alternative is there to raising the £13bn for cutting the budget deficit – the usual Tory canard of TINA (there is no alternative). What nonsense – there are plenty of alternatives, all of them preferable to hiking VAT which will hit the poorest hardest and will […]
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Right-wing press veto tax dodging campaign
Jan 4th, 2011 by Jon Lansman.Two right-wing newspapers, the Daily Mail and The Daily Telegraph, have today refused to carry ads opposing tax dodging (shown left) placed by campaign 38 Degrees, on the pretext that they could be viewed as libellous. The ads have been nevertheless accepted by the Guardian and Independent, and now 38 Degrees plan to run them on bus shelters and […]
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A manifesto to end tax cheating
Dec 23rd, 2010 by Jon Lansman.Thanks in large part to UK Uncut, one of the most progressive developments of 2010 has been a new, widespread recognition of the true extent of tax cheating. Opposition to it has become a central plank of the anti-cuts campaign and finds a breadth of public support we should find reassuring. Since the last Labour […]
