You are a such complacent , Daily Mail spouting, ignorant twat, Loom. All recent studies into the growing massive scale of (often perfectly "legal") tax avoidance by the superrich and multinational corporations come up with "tax avoided" figures which dwarf the sums mentioned by Resistance MP3. eg, From an article in the New Statesman way back in 25th November 2011;
"........ as nations across Europe feel the sting of reduced living standards, the true extent of global tax avoidance -- as revealed today by the
Tax Justice Network -- will act to bolster feelings that such injustice can no longer be swept aside with the kind of insouciance Hayn displays.
The research, based on data from 145 countries, shows that tax evasion costs those nations $3.1 trillion annually. In the UK's case £69.9 billion is lost on a yearly basis in what the Tax Justice Network call the "shadow economy." That figure, they point out, "represents 56% of the country's total healthcare spend."
On the back of this report the Tax Justice Network has launched its campaign to
Tackle Tax Havens. An initiative aimed at propelling tax avoidance up the political agenda by highlighting, in simple terms, the sheer scale of the sums involved and how they translate into increased cuts in public services for the rest of us."
This is obviously pretty guesstimated stuff. How could it be otherwise given the complex smoke and mirrors concealment surrounding the wealth hidden by the capitalist class from the tax authorities of our planet -and the complicity of their bribed placemen of the political class and the tax authorities themselves in this daylight robbery. But the conclusions are supported by many other research studies estimating how much superrich loot is hidden safe from the taxman in the many tax havens all over the world - many being British dependencies of one sort or another.
The important point is that the superrich and big corporations use legal and illegal means across the world to avoid contributing to the general social expenditure of individual states (eg, education, healthcare, roads, policing, welfare support, defence, etc, etc) without which their businesses simply couldn't function. Walmart for instance, one of the very wealthiest corporations on the planet, not only minimises its taxpaying liabilities through all the usual dodges, but its entire "business model" of minimum wage paying is predicated on exploiting "top-up" welfare payment systems like Family Credit in every state in which it operates and makes its massive profits. Silas Loom and his complacent ilk may wish to minimise and pooh pooh the significance of the ever accelerating escape of the superrich class and their corporations from contributing to the social costs of civilised society - but the long term consequences are of course profoundly civilisation destroying- as welfare systems and education and public infrastructure provision collapse from the lack of tax revenues to fund them.
Who you gonna call when the impoverished vengeful majority of citizens finally overrun the gated mansion communities of the rich ? Not the police for sure -- they'll have long ago been replaced by minimum wage private security guards, who will simply join the crowds in hustling the superrich forward to the waiting Madame Guillotine. Bring on the day ! hopefully there'll be a place for you in the queue too , Silas.
