Re: Harmonisation
It most certainly is not. The last thing we need is harmonised taxes and it's not going to happen outside of the Euro countries.
What is needed is the end of the - EU sanctioned - arrangements where a company can domicile itself in one EU country and then pay all of it's corporation tax in that country. Rather, these companies (all of them, not just Apple or Google or Starbucks) pay tax in the country that the profit was made and not be able to claim that they made no profit in the UK because their nasty Irish (or Lux or wherever) parent company charged them lots for stock
Biting the hand that feeds IT
