General Election 2024: General UK Politics Discussion here

[High Chaparral]

1 hour ago, cressida said:

Listening to bbc5Live last night,  someone phoned in to say that raising 3% income tax on the highest earners would wipe out the 22bn deficit.

The 22bn figure is disputed and includes huge pay rises given to the junior doctors and train drivers.

[peak4]

1 hour ago, RollingJ said:

Interesting 'Registered Address' for 'taxjustice.uk'

Really no idea what you mean by "Interesting"

Tax Justice UK is a Company Limited by Guarantee in England & Wales (no. 10761736).  Companies House Link
Registered Address: C/O Godfrey Wilson, Mariner House, 62 Prince St, Bristol BS1 4QD.

They seem to have this as their registered office at the same location as
https://www.godfreywilson.co.uk/about-us/

 

Background
Godfrey Wilson provides audit, accountancy, tax and consultancy services to small and medium sized organisations.

We specialise in charities and social enterprises.

The firm was set up in 2005 after identifying a need for specialised yet affordable professional services for charities.

Having built a reputation as a leading provider of audit and accountancy services to the not-for-profit sector, we now work with over 250 charities in Bristol and nationally.

The firm has four partners, Alison Godfrey, Rob Wilson, Guy Blake and Josh Turner, who are supported by a talented and committed team of charity-specialist accountants, bookkeepers and support staff. We have an office in Bristol city centre, but are happy to work with clients across the UK.

 

[RollingJ]

Fair enough, @peak4. I admit not checking whether 'Godfrey Wilson' was an individual or , as in this case,  a convenient place to park a company.

[peak4]

1 hour ago, High Chaparral said:

The 22bn figure is disputed and includes huge pay rises given to the junior doctors and train drivers.

Discussed here on More or Less from about 9minutes30 through to about 17mins30
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0022l16

Interesting article by David Gauke here as well from last Nov. in New Statesman

Jeremy Hunt has set a trap for Labour
The Chancellor’s tax cuts are only enabled by painful future spending cuts.

Summary final sentence(s)
 Ultimately, this was a political Autumn Statement.

Hunt’s Prime Minister may be grateful, but his successor as chancellor certainly won’t be.

[RollingJ]

Further to my comment above, this 'Registered Address' makes it hard to trace this 'company', conveniently for them.

[ECCOnoob]

1 hour ago, RollingJ said:

Further to my comment above, this 'Registered Address' makes it hard to trace this 'company', conveniently for them.

 

Significant amounts of companies use their accountants or lawyers officers as their registered address. It happens all the time. 

 

There are accountants offices with hundreds or even thousands of companies registered at their office address. 

 

CH still has a log of all the relevant paperwork, financial information, named directors, principals, accounts ledgers and shareholding splits.  

 

https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/10761736/filing-history?page=2

 

There's no great conspiracy. You don't have to be a great detective to work this stuff out. It's all there publicly available for anyone to have a good look if they put the effort in.

 

[RollingJ]

1 minute ago, ECCOnoob said:

 

Significant amounts of companies use their accountants or lawyers officers as their registered address. It happens all the time. 

 

There are accountants offices with hundreds or even thousands of companies registered at their office address. 

 

CH still has a log of all the relevant paperwork, financial information, named directors, principals, accounts ledgers and shareholding splits.  

 

https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/10761736/filing-history?page=2

 

There's no great conspiracy. You don't have to be a great detective to work this stuff out. It's all there publicly available for anyone to have a good look if they put the effort in.

 

I am aware of all that, @ECCOnoob - in fact I had a quick look  at Taxjustce UK's pages - very little information on there apart from what is legally required for them to 'exist'.

It would still be hard to find where they actually operate from though.

[peak4]

6 minutes ago, RollingJ said:

I am aware of all that, @ECCOnoob - in fact I had a quick look  at Taxjustce UK's pages - very little information on there apart from what is legally required for them to 'exist'.

It would still be hard to find where they actually operate from though.

I'm struggling to know what difference it makes where their office actually is, but a cursory glance at their jobs page says that the interviews will be at their office in Vauxhall, with a mix of Central London with remote working.
They also publish a list of donors, unlike many of the Tufton St thinktanks.

https://taxjustice.uk/funders/

 

[RollingJ]

7 minutes ago, peak4 said:

I'm struggling to know what difference it makes where their office actually is, but a cursory glance at their jobs page says that the interviews will be at their office in Vauxhall, with a mix of Central London with remote working.
They also publish a list of donors, unlike many of the Tufton St thinktanks.

https://taxjustice.uk/funders/

 

You seem to struggle with quite a lot, but that is understandable -I struggle to see where you are coming from sometimes.

If they have an office in Vauxhall, bearing in mind this rather important, I would have thought,  position is described as 'remote working', one wonders if it is one of these 'rent by the hour' locations.

The comment re donors is irrelevant to this particular bit of the discussion.

[ECCOnoob]

1 hour ago, RollingJ said:

You seem to struggle with quite a lot, but that is understandable -I struggle to see where you are coming from sometimes.

If they have an office in Vauxhall, bearing in mind this rather important, I would have thought,  position is described as 'remote working', one wonders if it is one of these 'rent by the hour' locations.

The comment re donors is irrelevant to this particular bit of the discussion.

 

I don't understand what more information you are so desperately seeking.  Legally and in terms of registration they operate from the address of stated on companies house. That is where their legal paperwork will be served and where any proceedings against them will be submitted.

 

The directors involved in this organisation are named and listed. You can even go further to see any links to other companies that they may also be linked to or named upon.

 

Just like nearly all organisations in the year 2024, most of the desk based jobs will be a hybrid arrangement. That is not an unusual.  It might be the case like 99.9% of their operations are done remotely, but so what? That happens with lots of companies these days.

 

Now, if you're trying to find out with personal registered addresses of the individual directors, then you're going to be disappointed. 

 

I really don't understand what you're pushing for?  It's a UK registered company at an identifiable UK address in Bristol office with a second UK address in Vauxhall. 

 

Their contacts for data control operations, freedom of information and data processing is all there to publicly stated on their website. There are individual LinkedIn profiles for several key staff, there's even something campaign pages from other separate organisations which are identify TaxJustice as legitimate, based where they say they are and with their office key persons and other detail matching. 

 

They can hardly be accused of not being transparent.