Comments on: A 21st Century blueprint for taxing multinational companies

By: Paul Cadier

Paul Cadier — Mon, 31 Dec 2012 09:20:10 +0000

Chatham House is a secretive organisation whose eponymous meetings are held in secret. It promotes globalism, multinational corporations, the European Union, the new world order, leading to an unelected World Government. Capitalism would be replaced by “corporatism” whereby the state and big business merge into a cartel of monopolies. (much as Karl Maex predicted)

By: nwcitizen

nwcitizen — Sat, 22 Dec 2012 20:54:56 +0000

Paul – For those of us unfamiliar with Chatham House, please explain your reference and your dislike fot it.
Thanks

By: Joe

Joe — Fri, 21 Dec 2012 17:27:49 +0000

Why tax anything if there is no substantive reason to? It’s not like it actually reaches anyone in need? For punitive social modification?

Having lived in East Germany (before it was cool,) I’m inclined to appose it, despite your irreverent ritual throwing out of the word “teabagger” and other dog whistles to the politcally programmed.

By: Stephen

Stephen — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 20:51:24 +0000

” This international tax system is dominated by the Organisation of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). The OECD’s Fiscal Committee, consisting of unelected state officials, presides over an increasingly complex set of rules which they are also responsible for applying. Its often arbitrary decisions involve billions of dollars of taxes – yet it is effectively unaccountable.”"

Goodness what a perfect description of the EU commission who want to implement the tax changes.

A flat rate of personal and company tax is often used in the ex Russian states from the baltic to the black sea. Fair and equitable to all. 16% of my meager salary or 16% of a company making millions seems right.
As to economic wows in Greece. Do not forget what the B in BRICS economies did quite rightly. Maybe like early mobile phones brick size can be applied to the new variant and slimmed down PIGS.

By: Paul

Paul — Sat, 15 Dec 2012 02:50:01 +0000

Good grief Nicholas, Chatham House?! Remind me not to read anything you write in the future.

By: Paul Abbott

Paul Abbott — Sat, 15 Dec 2012 02:48:01 +0000

This will never be accepted by the Conservative government in the UK. Rather than ban dodgy practices, they’d like a slice of the action – hoping that the UK can become a giant tax haven off Europe. I’m talking about the elite and their puppet politicians, not the general public

By: Clarissa Smith

Clarissa Smith — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 19:53:44 +0000

The unitary approach sounds perfectly swell, but I don’t see a chance to get it through U.S. Congress. Trying to get more money out of the one-percenters will always be voted down in the House by the Republicans. First, their ‘job’ is to save the one-percenters from paying taxes anyway. Secondly, they don’t want president Obama to get more revenue and actually achieve something.

Americans don’t even pay tolls on import, and my theory is, this makes president Obama such rather difficult negotiator for us. Maybe he would love to tax import, but will the Republicans stand for that? Actually he can’t promise us anything, because of the House gridlock.

I have a little hope it might get easier next year, since some teabag nuts will leave Congress and the Democrats just won a few more seats in Senate and House.