Saturday is the day of payment. This is expressed by activists on the day of protest against the companies which they accuse of failing to pay their share of the corporate tax implications.
They are targeting the Vodafone and Arcadia retail group, which belonged to Sir Philip Green. On previous occasions, the protesters closed the entrances and windows at Tsmarwa.
The people who have never joined the audience''angry''or may not know anything about this audience sympathize with the cause of this audience, if not empathize with the ways in which it is used.
The Daily Mail newspaper,''''which is the newspaper of choice for middle class in England that while she does not forgive acts issued by the protesters, ''we understand the reasons why many Britons who are under great pressure not to those who share their sense of justice''.
The paper also accused the company Kraft Foods trying to avoid U.S. tax collector through the transfer of some operations of Cadbury, a British confectionery company acquired this year, to Switzerland. And on the Daily Mail newspaper,''called''e-readers to boycott the products of Cadbury''''.
Are these protests justified? Activists claim that Vodafone city to the IRS in the United Kingdom estimated six billion pounds (ten billion dollars). In fact, the mobile phone company settled a dispute with the Revenue Authority and Customs in the month of July (July), which agreed to pay 1.25 billion pounds sterling.
It seems that the company itself believes she survived to pay a large sum - as it was calculated the expense of paying $ 2.2 billion. But they have paid all amounts paid therefore, does not even feel that the taxpayer is obliged to pay the owners of funds not claimed by the authorities.
The issue of Sir Philip is a different issue. So that the British taxpayer, but his wife Tanya, which owns the company lives in Monaco, which means they did not pay any taxes on dividends of $ 1.2 billion and received in 2005.
This is in line with the law altogether. I imagine that most readers of this paper and write her family distribute assets among them to reduce tax liabilities arising from them, but through our stay in the same country in which you reside wives (and that what we share less), we avoid this level of hostility.
For Kraft, she runs her company operating in Europe from the city of Zurich - Switzerland being a country of choice for many companies,''says Kraft''It is in the process of integration of Cadbury in the European structure.
She says that the balance between the numbers of staff in the UK and Ireland (about seven thousand employees) and Zurich (less than a thousand employees) will not change much, but the tax base in this case is not in the country where there are jobs.
I doubt that this is the most annoying opponents on the tax arrangements for companies. Not only that they believe that companies shy away from its responsibilities at a time when taxpayers to reduce their services, but it seems that the whole gimmick.
Ordinary people can not work in Betzberg and pay (or do not pay) the tax in Bermuda, or to live in Birmingham and enjoy the tax rates applicable in Geneva. Why should companies be able to do so?
This underlines one of the oldest debates about the companies. Those who condemn the companies of their obligation? Community in which they operate or to shareholders?
Cuff has tended to favor the second view in recent decades, and this is why the company is doing all it can to reduce the size of the tax paid.
If all countries had the same rates imposed on companies and the same approach to the collection of taxes on profits in other parts of the world, there would have been the goal of the move.
However, since it can be achieved only through the presence of a world government, there will be mostly tax advantages for the transfer of companies to other sites.
I pushed France and Germany to Ireland in order to raise the tax rate low, which is usually imposed on companies by 12.5 per cent as the price of the European Union to save her. But she resisted.
That country did not attract technology companies and Drug Administration only, but became the official residence of UK companies as a WPP Advertising & Communications, Inc. Shire Pharmaceuticals.
Sometimes companies are subject to pressure. When Accenture Advisory Group decided to transfer the official record of Bermuda, invoked with emotion because it has a reputation negatively related countries do not have tax treaties with the United States.
She said she fears that have great difficulty in winning government contracts.So, where to move? To Delaware? No, to Ireland.
In light of the savings that will accrue companies, it is necessary to exercise great pressure on companies to persuade them to abandon the tax arrangements. And relegating the protesters will be on store windows Almtsmaren then: easier than relegating the corporate taxation advisers.
The consumer boycott of the Standing of these companies may make a difference, but as I said in previous columns, rarely occur these counties, real damage.
The announcement that a knighthood would be granted only to heads of companies with headquarters in the main United Kingdom, will lead to some problems for companies, but any government will have the courage to venture down the size of political donations that can be followed.
Companies may be able to cope with this issue. But some of its leaders will face an uncomfortable march by an angry audience.
التسميات
Orbits