Posts by DavCrav 3894 publicly visible posts • joined 19 Nov 2007
"Governments write the tax laws and Amazon is doing the very thing they encourage companies to do – paying all taxes due while also investing many billions in creating jobs and infrastructure. Coupled with low margins, this investment will naturally result in a lower cash tax rate."
But this is a lie, since the original article talked about tax rates on profits, and investment is subtracted from revenues to arrive at profits.
"companies kept much of their overseas profit offshore to avoid a 35% tax that kicked in when they brought the money back to the U.S. The Republican tax law set a one-time 15.5% tax rate on cash"
Yes, but they also aren't keeping it in the countries where it' was earned. It goes and suns itsself in Bermuda and BVI.
"You may want to ask Apple how they do it. They pay their wholly-owned Irish company ‘Apple Sales International’ royalties on IP"
The other commentator is saying that the answer should be zero. You should not be allowed to charge for branding at all. I agree with this statement.
"Yodel garners regular gongs as the UK's least favourite courier company"
It is like handing out awards for the UK's least favourite sexually transmitted disease.
I must admit, I first read it as most favourite courier company in the article, and to be honest, both sentences mean much the same thing.
"Would it REALLY hurt them that much to, say, take a hit for one year to engage in the transition between TLDs?"
The fact that it's very annoying, and would only bankrupt a few charities to move, is not really a good excuse. This is a largely captive market and you can bump the cost from $10/year to $100/year. I reckon half of the 10m organizations would swear at you and accept it as a cost of doing business, and you are on revenues of $500m/year now. All at the expense of non-profit organizations, in the finest tradition of pond-scum businessmen.
Right now wind is 1.73GW and the French interconnect is 2GW. However, if you hover over the wind dial you will find out that this is not the only wind generation, same as solar. Solar reads at 0GW all the time, because there is no metered solar. Add 30% to obtain an estimate of total wind generation, so it's higher than the interconnect.
"He started out as synth player in art ponce band Roxy Music to later embark on a solo career churning out albums with such inspiring titles as "Music For Airports"."
Thanks for reminding me about this album. I'm right now trying to get my two-month old to sleep.
Edit: not doing as well as Chopin's nocturnes. Well, apart from No. 13.
"Then some fruitcake goes "but that needs to be spent here on Earth for the poor!""
I wouldn't call the idea of billionaires having to pay taxes and not spunk their money on vanity projects 'fruitcake'. You might not agree, but which one of the two -- Muck or such people -- put a car in space?
"Firstly is a more formal way to introduce the first point, so thanks for showing your ignorance of English grammar."
Firstly is not more formal. Indeed, I used to use this, but was discouraged from writing firstly by the copyeditors of the books and articles I have published over the years. Maybe they were all wrong...
I also just think it's a bit of a sad existence to hunt the Register forums looking for someone who accidentally used the wrong pronoun.
"Datrix told its customers in a fresh email alerting them to the incident. Company reps also phoned all of those who had been emailed by the phishers to ensure the warning got through, Wirszycz told us."
This is how a breach should be dealt with. Yes, you shouldn't click on links in e-mails, but it will occasionally happen. The point is, when it does, to be ready and swing into action immediately. Afterwards, you need to assess the damage quickly, alert everyone compromised, and be up-front about what happened. The extra phone call is just another layer of security.
Most other companies could learn from this response.
"Except in a lot of cases they don't actually receive the benefits such as sick pay, holiday pay, etc. They stay employed as a contractor and retain all the risks that entails..."
As the previous poster said, IR35 is intended to punish liars (assuming it is applied correctly...). Being found to be inside IR35 should be a stepping stone to be turned permanent, so an end state.
"So much for commentard being enlightened here...
...the Mayor is a SHE, not a HE, as so, so many have automatically presumed...I know a woman Mayor...what a fucked up world we've become."
Or, heaven forfend, I made a mistake?
I guess the fucked-up world is where people get roundly jumped on by twats for making tiny errors (or, as they are now labelled, micro-aggressions) in speech. I would prefer a world where people are just a little less automatically outraged about every little thing in their lives but, you know, I just have this one.
While we are criticizing people, how about this?
"So much for commentard [sic] being enlightened here...
...the Mayor [sic] is a SHE, not a HE, as so, so many have automatically presumed [sic] ...I know [sic] a woman [sic] Mayor [sic]...what a fucked up world we've become."
It should be 'commentards', and 'mayor' (it's a job here, not a title). You don't need 'automatically' as that is part of the presumption, so this should not be there. It should be female mayor, not woman Mayor. There are other errors in your child-like sentences, but I do not have the time to correct you further. What a fucked-up world we now live in, where people cannot string together a few simple sentences.
Alternative headline:
Politician apologizes in telling-the-truth scandal.
The Mayor of Rushcliffe is under fire today after evidence emerged that in unscripted remarks at a recent gathering he told statements that he knew were true. The accusation was levelled by shocked onlookers, who had never heard such utterances from a politician before.
"I get the impression it started after the war for independance as they threw off the oppression on the British rule and it's just become embedded in their culture."
The amusing thing is that the American War of Independence started as the Colonies' refusal to pay for their own defence. Nowadays, the ex-Colonies pay more of their GDP on defence than any other country, and are currently in an argument with South Korea to get them to pay much more for their defence.
"What I'm really intrigued about is what happens if Trump is impeached and (say) Hillary Clinton gets in."
Trump -> Pence -> Pelosi -> Grassley -> Pompeo.
Now Trump, Pence and Pompeo are all up to their necks in the Ukraine crimes, but Pelosi appears not to be a criminal, so any impeachment run should stop there.
If you cannot see the difference between the US government using extraordinary rendition (i.e., kidnapping) on Al-Qaeda suspects, and the Chinese government running a million-strong concentration camp (which Huawei supplies with the electronic gubbins to make it work) then I worry for you.
The US/UK have done bad things, but current Chinese acts are in a different league.
"That cash offer was made in a meeting where the Employment Tribunal (ET) later ruled that Mayall had ordered "no notes should be taken", though Capita HR worker Ana Maru made notes from memory afterwards and emailed them to Mayall."
Wait. You can say "don't take any notes about this meeting where I'm about to do something dodgy" and then if you write about it afterwards that's wrong? Why don't more people try that?
"Now take into account that partner draws a salary from the limited company as well".
Uh-huh. Your partner was doing what exactly? *Cough* tax avoidance *cough*.
I have to commute a long distance as well, and run two houses, but don't get expenses for that as I am an employee. Suck it up. Or quit, which you are apparently going to do.
"If it's like you say why haven't you been freelance yourself? Altruism? Don't have anything good enough to sell?"
But isn't this a (stupid) answer to all complaints about corruption? If it's so easy to go round nicking stuff, why don't you stop work and go round nicking stuff? Maybe people don't want to burn down society, but stop others from taking the piss instead. Not everyone is a psychopath/libertarian.
In my case I'm not a tax-avoiding contractor because
1) it is morally reprehensible to avoid as much tax as humanly possible, and
2) almost all industries don't really have contractors anyway, just IT, newsreading apparently, and other people on the telly.
"I could see disreputable IPSs doing that as well."
You mean anyone who wants to follow government-mandated blocking like Cleanfeed and court-ordered blocks on pirate sites? If Google really does break Cleanfeed, expect blocking Google DNS to be mandated by the courts as well.
Or we could test out that extradition treaty, with the charge 'aiding and abetting the distribution of child pornography. Couple of decades' porridge for Eric?
"there's no reason that food would suddenly become poisonous on some mass scale simply because of new production methods."
There's already (some) evidence that processing meat (possibly) causes health problems. This would be the ultimate in processed meat. So we would not know if cell-grown burgers were carcinogenic until about 30 years after their introduction.
"And the reason we have been waiting 3 years is t do with, guess who."
Ooh, ooh, I know! It's to do with the fact that it's really hard and politicians aren't really up for mass shortages on their watch, so have been delaying while trying to work out how to do it without killing a bunch of people.
"Well, my town voted 83% leave. I'd say that's fairly committed given that's more people than voted labour, even in the Socialist Peoples Paradise of Sunderland."
I don't believe you, at least for now. On this Wikipedia page I cannot find anywhere with a Leave voting in the 80%s. So either you are somewhere that isn't on that webpage, or you are wrong.
"If you don't vote then you have agreed to side with the winner, whoever it is and whatever the vote was about. That's how it works."
Not really. If you don't like any of the options available, you can legitimately not vote and then say it's because all options were shit. For example, people who don't vote in a rigged election aren't agreeing to go along with the dictator.
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