UK taxpayers want higher levies on big tech companies, survey shows

Sounds like a good idea if we don't care about macroeconomic stability.

The UK taxpayers want everybody to pay higher taxes - everybody except them.

The UK taxpayers want everybody to pay higher taxes - everybody except them.

The average UK tax payer ( you and me ) pay 46% of their income (profit) in tax.


How much should the "big tech" companies pay JTG?

many of them are paying zero tax or fractions of a percent.

It's not just big tech, Even some supermarkets like ASDA are paying zero tax and will do so for the next 20 years.


How much tax should big companies pay JTG?

They should pay UK tax based on the level of their profits generated in the UK - which is exactly what they do.

23 million adults in the UK pay no income tax at all.

How much should they pay Escapee ?

If you raise the income tax threshold for
political gain, and lower income tax rates
for political gain, you are left taxing other stuff to make up the shortfall.

You can also manipulate stats around who pays income tax, which impress simpleton, but are meaningless when the burden shifts elsewhere.

Simpletons

23 million adults in the UK pay no income tax at all.

How much should they pay Escapee ?

I don't know the answer to you question, Do you?



Why don't this 23 million pay tax ?
Is it because they don't have any money to tax?

Totally stand to be corrected on any of this and i know the world has moved on but why oh why didn't the UK cut the bejaysus out of corporation tax in 2020ish? Okay start of covid but i know the 'market' per se maybe wasn't there without repercussions but a chance to bring multinationals in guaranteeing good jobs and hence a higher 'tax take'
Instead it was raised which is off putting and says to me 'no choice'.

It was what Ireland did and has reaped rewards,i would at this juncture (2026) won't dispute the two tier society at all because you would be right.