A big mistake Osborne made was not to go ahead and combine NI and IC on the employee side. It would simplify so many things. (View Post)

For businesses there are taxes on operation / turn-over and there are taxes on profits. Its far better to tax profit than turn-over if you want to encourage growth. The complication is mega-corps are… (View Post)

We talked about this the other day. No legit business these days wants anywhere near cash, even pubs give you funny looks. Those "legit" businesses maybe in the past put the odd thing under… (View Post)

I think its been a problem for a long time in the UK. The government is fairly good at engaging with massive businesses (its seems all the focus today was on such people), they have consistently been… (View Post)

One man bands definitely can exploit avoidance / evasion, and the UK is stuffed with them. But companies of say 100, they aren't able to do that. My point is you want to try to have more of thes… (View Post)