Off Topic Hull City Centre Public Realm Strategy

Sadly the High Street has been failing for years. The pandemic has just brought a much quicker end for some.

 

I'd like to see a law change especially for care hospital staff that get abused to be able to emit them from the premises with no recourse !
****ing arseholes

 

How much tax are Amazon paying ?

 

Creating jobs

 

And yet many off us can see the problem

 

Yep. Zero tolerance re hospitals. Got to start somewhere.

 

I used to, but I have stopped using Amazon and buy local where i have the option to.
Just bought a new set of golf clubs and I'm sure I could have got a few quid off online, but actually buying them from the person in the pro shop who had measured me for them and gone outside for me to hit a few balls with a similar one felt much better. He'll earn a few quid and then certainly spend some of that locally.
I do realise that if your budget is tight every penny counts, but if people are able to change its easy really

 

not enough and as OLM proved when their tax does go up they will simply pass it onto consumers instead.

the time to change and stop using them is now

 

The choice is becoming narrower by the year
I used to buy most of my clothes from Hammonds trainers and Sports stuff from DW Sports .
I use Debenhams at the minute but for how long ?
Not a great time !

 

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.th...ax-bill-2018-no-taxes-despite-billions-profit
**** all by the looks of it

 

Expecting companies to do the right and ethical thing seems to be inconsistent with the expectation that companies maximise the return for their shareholders. And if you can maximise your money by using legal tax avoidance schemes, then you're going to do it, aren't you?

The blindingly obvious answer to me would be to eliminate all the tax avoidance loopholes. If everyone (people and businesses) just paid their fair share according to their ability to pay then the government would have the money to do the things they promised to do when we elected them. [avoiding discussion of what is a fair share and ability to pay etc due to politics]

The problem with that is a lot of tax accountants and lawyers would suddenly be out of a job

 

Problem with the Apples and Amazons is that no country has got to grips with how to tax digital trade without falling out with the companies/countries involved. Imagine Trump's response if Europe or GB came down hard on Amazon/Apple, there'd be trade embargos all over the place.

 

For those fearful of automation, it's worth looking at a worked example. Mars is the only known planet populated only by robots, and it's not exactly a big business player is it.

 

In the confectionary business league table - Mars - Bar none

 

Milky Way? Galaxy?

 

It's not a small chocolate bar, it's a galaxy far, far away.

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Product lines of Mars Inc

 

Community Interest Companies are a good way of keeping cash local (if you set them up to ensure that in the first place)
At least they’re all registered too so you can easily read how they operate
Not for profit doesn’t mean people don’t earn money from it, as salaries, but does mean any surplus gets fed back into good projects locally
Good idea I think

 

Up here we have a minimum alcohol pricing system.That's on pubs and supermarket prices.I have to pay more for a can of beer,bottle of wine or spirits than you do,yet the profit isn't for the brewer,distillery or vineyard,it's Tesco or Asda that's benefiting(yet they continue to pay off staff)!!

What benefit is there in increasing Supermarket beer prices as you suggest? I'm curious?