UkUnCut

[TheAnimus]

So despite their name been a test for dyslexia, these silly toss pots have been at it again.

These guys like to protest against firms who are acting completely legally, and more importantly inline with their shareholder obligations, who only pay the least tax that they legally have to. This by many is the definition of 'correct tax return'. Myself I'm in this boat, I didn't include in my tax return an extra £500 because 13 years of labour have bankrupted us, I spent it on material things instead.

Now you've got to remember that not overpaying tax, despite everyone doing it is only OK when your the right kind of person, they have made clear its perfectly ok when its the gaurdian doing this ****.

Anyway, its probably clear I think they are a bunch of ******s who are engaged in a massive circle jerk right now, but I think they might have let all the soggy biscuits go to their heads.

http://dizzythinks.net/2011/03/ukunc...isuse-act.html

#Step 1, commit crime.

#Step 2, brag about crime, admitting that you broke the law, try and make it sound more clever and fiendish crime than it was.

#Step 3, Profit.

What a bunch of retards.

[Lucio]

This is something that the standard person on the street doesn't understand, companies by law in many cases, are required to be completely amoral. They're actually legally obligated to make as much profit as they can.

[kingpotnoodle]

A company and it's management have a duty to investors to make as much money as they can get away with.

The Goverment have a duty to the people to pass and enforce laws preventing this becoming uncompetitive/exploitative etc.

Me thinks UKUnCut have picked the wrong targets? Who voluntarily pays more tax than they need to? Are all of those 'tards demonstrating popping down HMRC and offering them some extra?

[Rave]

The argument with Vodafone is that they did not legitimately dodge the tax- they were potentially going to be forced to pay up to £5bn (CBA to google the exact amount, but it was in that ballpark). Then for no obvious reason someone senior in HMRC caved in and let them off with paying back only £1bn-ish. Now £4bn is quite a substantial amount of money, albeit only 15 days worth of government borrowing, but still.

So, given that Vodafone were engaged in tax avoidance schemes of dubious legality, I do think it is legitimate to protest against them. But the more important protest should be against HMRC, to ask them what the hell they think they're playing at.

I was handed a UK UnCut flyer at a protest outside Boots in Oxford Street a month or so ago. I got the impression that whoever wrote it didn't quite comprehend the scale of the deficit the government is currently running .

[Salazaar]

I was so enraged with Vodafone the other week I closed off the A339 to their headquarters! Or it could have been to fix the big pothole and do a few signs. One or the other.

(Edit: is drunk)

[redddraggon]

I saw a protest in Manchester last weekend:


Vodafone Protest near the Arndale Centre by redddraggon, on Flickr

The guy with the megaphone had no real idea what they were protesting - the crowd was in hysterics with what he was saying .