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What annoys me most about Citibank is that's where I have to pay my VAT.
HMRC have ditched their Bank of England account and gone with Citibank. Nothing quite says 'we don't give a stuff about the economy' quite as much as all the VAT in the country being stored in the USA....
I'd have thought it was against the national interest to have that much UK money stored with a foreign interest.
Fail cos well, it's uk.gov, innit
That just goes to show that the HMRC are almost as smart as a trained Chimp.....
What I don't get is why we ever spend government money on foreign imports IF we do it ourselves.. It doesn't matter the cost difference as it gets TAXED again anyway!
If the gov pay £70 per widget to a non-uk company, there is no tax back... BUT
If the gov pay £100 per widget to a UK company... it breaks down a bit like...
£17.33 = VAT paid to HMRC
£13.89 = Tax Paid to HMRC (@20% Small Business Rate)
Leaving a real cost of around £69
So really unless its over %30 cheaper it is deffinately a net benefit to buy British for the Gov.
And in all likeliness, a lot of the cost would be wages, meaning closer to 30% would be paid to HMRC when it comes to tax/NI.
Plus as most of the wages would be spent on general living costs causing even more tax deductions...
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"If the gov pay £70 per widget to a non-uk company, there is no tax back... BUT
If the gov pay £100 per widget to a UK company... it breaks down a bit like...
£17.33 = VAT paid to HMRC
£13.89 = Tax Paid to HMRC (@20% Small Business Rate)
Leaving a real cost of around £69"
You assume that a company in the UK pays taxes. This is not the case.
Most government services are purchased via PFI which trebles costs but keeps them off books. These deals also mean the government must ensure the company's profitability and the company rinses said profits to avoid taxes.
Think about it - you live in a country which sold the offices for its own tax revenue collection to a company incorporated in Bermuda FFS!
The main reason for all this is that it's these companies that can pay for the nice dinners and jollies which civil servants and MPs love so much. The wishes of the electorate are mere inconvenience.
Even better, the BoE generates new money from thin air (which it can do because we have our own currency), lends it to banks at 0.5%, and the banks then lend it to the government at 3%
( actually they lend it several times over, but lets not mention that because they've learned their lesson and anyway it wasn't their fault and nobody will mind when we have to bail them out again ).
So here is a new way to publish more intimate details of your life on your facebook page... great idea... Like people don't expose enough of their life to strangers... I bet the big brands are going to love this, more data to crunch and track your habits so they can sell you things...
I am proud to say my Facebook friends are in low double digits and I actually knew most my Facebook friends in real life first (spouses of friends are the minor exception to my rule)..
I also try to avoid any of this 'geo-tagging' nonsense. Really, you want to tell people your on holiday and your house is prime and ready for a burglary?
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Advert style seems to indicate the product(?) is aimed at younger teenagers. I'm pretty sure the A.S.A. slapped the wrist (lightly of course, being the A.S.A.) of a several banks a few years ago for pushing 'easy credit' at this demographic. Morality aside, facebook-style data exposure and banking is a combination to make most wince. Prime source of targets for the fraudsters if nothing else.
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