The sellers on amazon and ebay are small
Erh. Wat. I'm sorry. In what world hundreds of billions of €/£/$ a year is "small" ?!?? They are corporate giants that Dwarve even coca cola.
and its not their responsibility to monitor their taxes
haha. They HELPED sellers to fraud. By falsifying sales accounting & declared prices & quantities in tax paperwork.
Those articles are about them not paying corporate tax,
It says VAT even in the link... You are simply of bad faith.
As the article says, they have resulted in £160m of revenue in VAT alone -
While they should have payed 15x that amount... If you allow corporations to pay a vague fraction of what they owe and call it a day, don't wonder why there is no tax income and the UK is running a huge deficit they have to hide somehow.
national insurance and income tax probably come out higher.
If they pay their taxes honestly & didn't falisifed everything it'd come up with like 500-800M / year of VAT in England.
There are a huge number of jobs outside of London, I would know I work in an office full of them.
Office being in london ? /s
If you were one of the people that built that infrastructure, you'd have been paid for it.
Yeah it's why taxes where collected. To build roads and bridges and utilities. Not to enrich oligarchs.
"My ancestros built this country, give me money"
As opposed to "all our collective ancestors build this country, let's give it all to a few billionaires and live in shanty towns too poor to afford proper food because that's the rules of the free market says we should".
And who'se going to pay for the infra of your kids, for stuff like optical fibers and futur utilities if all the tax money is stolen or unpaid ? Whose going to pay to maintain those roads in a usable level ? Who pays for street lighting in town ? Who pays the cops & firemen ? Private companies ? What happened when train companies where privatised in the UK ? They stopped paying for maintenance and got horribly large numbers of people killed and didn't give a fuck because if they can grab the money once used to repair them they will : http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/aug/22/privatising-railways-disaster-renationalise-labour
You sure you want to see the same "corporate private owning" thing with everything ?
Wealth, not resources.
I say ressources because it goes well beyond raw money. More and more people occident wide don't even own their home nowadays : http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2014/01/29/business/economy/29economix-sub-homeownership/29economix-sub-homeownership-blog480.png Because hey if it's all for the free market corporations well they bough it all 20 years ago then won't sell it to you and certainly not at a human price.
Most people in Western countries are living very comfortably
Slowly boiling frog.
Dont impose your own serfdom on others.
By allowing corporations to fraud taxes so they have ALL the money in the systme which they use to buy everything, YOU impose serfdom on others.
