Formula One pays just £1million corporation tax on £300million profit

[rustyrider]

Amazon does billions of pounds of trade with millions of customers in the UK.  Yet Amazon tells us they don't carry out any transactions in the UK and therefore they don't need to pay any corporation tax.

But equally the huge Amazon warehouses scattered all around the country employ thousands of people.  All these people pay their income tax, National Insurance and spend their money so are contributing by paying VAT too.  I suspect that the combined contributions to the economy made by the workers at Amazon total more than Amazon would pay if they declared all their income as UK based.

Oh don't worry too much about the 40% tax bracket.  Not long after you start paying that you stop paying national insurance contributions.  (well it drops from 12% to 2%)  The 40% bracket is not as painful as those who pay it like to make out it is.

Isn't it?  My NI contributions haven't dropped they've actually gone up as I'm paying self employed NI contributions on top of my PAYE NI contributions.

Now, here's a suggestion for you as a good socialist.  My missus is from a communist country where there is no such thing as benefits.  But in actual fact there are.  Anyone unable to work due to illness or injury gets paid by the Government in much the same way as here.  However, anyone who simply isn't working because they claim they can't get a job because there are none, etc, gets nothing, in theory.  In practice everyone is entitled to a job and an income.  So the unemployed get given a job and, in return, get given their benefits.  Why can't we introduce a similar scheme?  Anyone claiming unemployment benefits gets nothing unless they put in at least 20 hours a week sweeping the streets, cleaning graffiti, picking up litter, clearing ponds, etc, the sort of jobs given to people on Community Service Orders.  The money would still come out of the benefits system but would at least be doing the country some good and the fact that the claimants are actually going out and doing something might make them more employable and give them an incentive to go out and get a full time job.