The Taxing EU II

Brussels flags common corporate tax

An article in the FT says the EU’s tax commissioner Laszlo Kovacs said he would introduce legislation if necessary to improve tax co-ordination between the the EU’s 25 member states.
Mr Kovacs also set out papers on co-ordinating exit taxes for people who move to another member state. At present their [...]

The Taxing EU

Direct Taxation: The European Commission proposes an EU co-ordinated approach of national direct tax systems
(see MEMO/06/499)
The European Commission has adopted a Communication announcing a series of initiatives to promote better co-ordination of national direct tax systems in the EU. The aim is to ensure that national tax systems comply with Community law and interact [...]

So Who Runs BritainIII

ECJ rules that UK can’t tax dividends on foreign subsidiaries of British firms – will cost Treasury up to £9billion
The European Court of Justice yesterday ruled that [...]

No Mention of a CBE from Party Members

Alice Thomson in the Telegraph writes about the public funding of political parties and mentions perhaps one of the reasons that both Labour and the Conservative leaders are keen on the issue of public funding.  That of falling membership of the main parties “Instead of playing endless games of tennis with Lord Levy, Mr Blair [...]

Short Money

There’s a story going round that taxpayers already fund political parties through “Short money”, so state funding of political parties would be nothing new. (Another case of the false “we already do X, so we might as well go on and do Y” argument.)
But Short money was only intended to assist MPs [...]

Magistrates told Pensioners to “Pay Up or Leave the Country,”

Lesley and John Kelly have been withholding a portion of their council tax for the last 3 years, because they object to their money being spent on supporting the unelected South West Regional Assembly.

John Kelly says: “Councils neither ask nor inform voters of what they are doing, and this council has never [...]

BBC Poll Tax

Sir – The Government’s proposals for the future of the BBC seem anachronistic (News, March 15).
There are now numerous ways in which information and entertainment of the type the BBC provides can be obtained: terrestrial broadcast, satellite transmission, internet and mobile phone transmission. There are also many providers of services through these [...]

We control tax and social security

“View Article We control tax and social security
by Eurealist on April 12, 2005 05:38PM (BST)
In other words the advocate General has said that Companies whose subsidiaries make a loss overseas, can put that loss against their profits in the this country, this will of course reduce their overall tax. The problem is that [...]

Hull and East Riding

From Neil Herron How Our Money was Spent

Hull and East Riding
09:30 – 01 January 2005
The University of Salford evaluation of the “operation and effectiveness of elected regional assemblies” – £979,274
Review of studies promoting regional growth – £255,320
Evaluation of the Role and Impact of Regional Chambers – £216,129
Identifying the flow of expenditure into regions – £176,520
British [...]