nuff said

Appears you don't know a lot about how the EU works! These laws have been negotiated over and could have been stopped by the UK government if it wanted.

Lots of Daily Mail readers complain about the EU but most don't know who there MEP is, even less bothered to vote.

I also think the situation is more complicated than it seems as the money went to a Luxembourg company but can't have been taken straight into Vodafone, or they would have been taxed on the difference between what they had already paid and what they should have paid under UK tax. I don't know what they did but there must be some other fiddle involved.

So if the other country had higher tax rates would the company get a rebate?

Serious question, they might, be the sceptic in me says 'fat chance'.

There's a particular irony in HM.gov being one of the primary resisters to tax harmonisation within the EU. I don't know enough on the subject to even vaguely know whether it's a good idea or not but one suspects that the table rigging, err rejig, from HMRC will have to be along the lines of a tax hammering once the assets are merged ie said money returns to Blighty.

"Lots of Daily Mail readers complain about the EU but most don't know who there MEP is, even less bothered to vote."

Or even that since 1999, everyone in the UK has at least 3 MEPs due to the nature of the PR system we use.

Coat please!

We pay too much tax in the UK so is it any wonder individuals or companies seek to evade it?

If we got out of the EU so that we did not have to pump billions into it, stopped our government from spending money on crap like mousemats and the olympic bid and got rid of the legalised thieves that sit in parliament and claim a large salary and ridiculous epenses then they could afford major tax custs and have the health service back to being world class, more coppers on the streets and fund research into major killers such as cancer.

I wholeheartedly understand companies/individuals that do this because of the high rate of tax though I don't agree with tax evasion if the rate was reasonable.

If I claim too much for mileage or subsistence, the tax man is on my back. If I claim any other expenses they have to be fully itemised above a very low limit or again the Tax man cometh. My mum retired as a teacher and they pursued her even after her death just in case she had any extra income they hadn't known about for the previous 40 years.

It is about time that HMRC went after the real Tax Evaders and they should start at Westminster.

to misquote..

"It is every pounds duty to try and escape [the tax man]"