Posturing politicians desperate to disguise their own failures
17 May 2013 1 Comment
Sirs,
I am getting very bored seeing committee rooms full of posturing politicians trying to divert attention from their own failures.
Companies like Google, Amazon and Starbucks are behaving within the tax laws. If politicians don’t like this then it is their responsibility to make changes.
The frequent dragging of senior company figures before Parliament is achieving nothing and convincing nobody – the failure to collect decent amounts of tax is totally the fault of the politicians who define the laws.
Paul Harper
The Independent published it:
Especially when it would appear that HMRC are quite prepared to let big companies off their tax liabilities at the same time as ruthlessly pursuing and fining small business owners who don’t have the resources to bribe them.