Anna B Posted December 2, 2022 Share Posted December 2, 2022 (edited) 1 hour ago, Dromedary said: Give it a few years and we may actually get one. I'm certain that any tax they owed has already been paid. Maybe you should read this. According to this Amazon didn't pay any UK tax in 2021 and is set not to pay any UK tax again this year. https://www.retailgazette.co.uk/blog/2022/08/amazon/ Edited December 2, 2022 by Anna B Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hackey lad Posted December 2, 2022 Share Posted December 2, 2022 10 hours ago, makapaka said: We’re in recession and suffering hyper inflation. Nearly every public service is in peril and have striking or impending striking staff. mass unemployment is forecast. we are reliant on crippling energy prices. we’ve decimated almost all large industry and exporters and our economy is reliant mainly on a London based financial market which is also struggling. give us a couple of positives and maybe I’ll reconsider….. Its Christmas soon and then the start of another brand new year . Cheer up Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fools Posted December 2, 2022 Share Posted December 2, 2022 On 01/12/2022 at 17:13, makapaka said: This county is in dire straits. It will only be downhill from here. we’ve got very little going for ourselves over here anymore. switch your smartphone off for a bit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dromedary Posted December 2, 2022 Share Posted December 2, 2022 1 hour ago, Anna B said: Maybe you should read this. According to this Amazon didn't pay any UK tax in 2021 and is set not to pay any UK tax again this year. https://www.retailgazette.co.uk/blog/2022/08/amazon/ Interesting granted but its not tax they owe though is it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prettytom Posted December 2, 2022 Share Posted December 2, 2022 1 hour ago, Anna B said: Maybe you should read this. According to this Amazon didn't pay any UK tax in 2021 and is set not to pay any UK tax again this year. https://www.retailgazette.co.uk/blog/2022/08/amazon/ That is one of many bits of our tax system that requires radical reform. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chekhov Posted December 24, 2022 Author Share Posted December 24, 2022 The Times 19 Dec 2022 (p38) : KPMG estimates that the economy entered a recession in the third quarter of this year and will contract by 1.3% in the next year owing to a sharp drop in consumer spending amid rising interest rates. This will be followed by a partial recovery in 2024, in which GDP could rise by 0.2%. "In terms of duration, the expected six quarters of contraction is the longest continuous fall in GDP that the UK has faced since quarterly data were compiled in the 1950s". The Labour market will start deteriorating from the first half of next year KPMG predicts, the unemployment rate reaching 5.6% by mid 2024, representing an increase of about 680,000 people. If KPMG have not built into their model the unprecedented exit from the labour force of large numbers of experienced middle aged workers (mentioned in the opener) it will be even worse than their prediction. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chekhov Posted August 3, 2023 Author Share Posted August 3, 2023 On 30/08/2022 at 12:31, Chekhov said: GORDON BENNET ! Has anyone been into Wilko recently ? Loads of shops have empty shelves but they must be one of the worst - upstairs is worse - and it's been like that for a year or so (getting steadily worse though). I even remember, at the back end of last year, asking one of the staff it they were closing down (because they had so many empty shelves). She said "no, we just can't get the stock". This is frightening..... Wilko homeware chain on brink of collapse https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-66395824 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted August 3, 2023 Share Posted August 3, 2023 (edited) 18 minutes ago, Chekhov said: Wilko homeware chain on brink of collapse https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-66395824 Another instance of our government's catastrophic failure to help this country's people and businesses. Why should massive companies such as Amazon be allowed to pay no taxes, as they sit there taking trade away from companies such as Wilko ? Chancellor Hunt was on TV News at teatime telling the biggest load of lies I have ever heard. Everyone know that we need price controls to bring inflation down. Doing it with interest rate rises is not working and hurting mortgage payers too much. We have the most useless government since World War 2 Edited August 3, 2023 by Organgrinder Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Cid Posted August 3, 2023 Share Posted August 3, 2023 1 hour ago, Organgrinder said: Why should massive companies such as Amazon be allowed to pay no taxes, as they sit there taking trade away from companies such as Wilko ? Surely both companies have smart accountants and avoid as much tax as possible? The empty selves is their problem, not taxes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hackey lad Posted August 3, 2023 Share Posted August 3, 2023 15 minutes ago, El Cid said: Surely both companies have smart accountants and avoid as much tax as possible? The empty selves is their problem, not taxes. Have noticed the empty shelves recently . Hope they don't close them all ( don't think they will ) . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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