That is a completely different argument to the one you just made. I would not disagree with you about big cars and cheap flights. Indeed that is the point I am making. We should be dealing with this … (View Post)

Norway says you are wrong. Same geology, same oil, same risks, same methods and basic costs. Higher but stable tax regime compared to our hugely fluctuating regimes. And of course much more investmen… (View Post)

That is actually really sad. (View Post)

This is a good point but it then reduces the tax take to negligible. Shell makes 92% of its earnings outside the UK BP makes 90% of its earnings outside the UK (I only found this one out this morning… (View Post)

Yep this has been my argument for years. All the more so when the tax rates are not that much different between the two countries but the UK side tinkers with them continuously. As I think I pointed … (View Post)