The European Union is drawing up plans to control Britain’s tax policies after Brexit, leaked documents seen by The Daily Telegraph disclose.
According to draft documents, the EU wants to ensure the UK pledges to keep its tax rules aligned with those of the bloc as part of any future Brexit agreement.
Such a move would prevent the UK from becoming a low-tax economy by cutting its corporation tax rate to attract business. And – depending on the wording of any agreement – it could mean that any future changes to the EU’s tax rules would need to be followed by the UK, even years after Brexit.
Part of the point of being a sovereign nation is so that you can have different policies from the neighbours…..
This would be part of an FTA I presume rather than the withdrawal agreement? What other FTAs demand one signatory follows the tax rules of the other?
The more interesting thing here is Ireland. More evidence how the EU is simply using Ireland in the Brexit talks and will soon fuck them over once their usefulness has expired. Will be great to see that egotistical child they have in charge learn that the hard way.
But which tax policies? Sure, VAT rules are EU ones, with all sorts of restrictions on what a country can do with its rate and exemptions, but income tax, corporation tax and capital gains taxes are all set domestically with a great deal of latitude. As far as I know, Ireland and Luxembourg are still able to out-compete us, even in the EU at we all are at present.
They’ll need a political party and about 11 million votes. Tricky but possible.
Rob–There are a lot of fools–but their foolery very often has in it as its major element the fact that the EU fills their rice bowl. Eleven million is way high for that level of self-serving.
I trust that everybody who still lives in this country is putting every possible pressure on Tory MPs. There does seem to be a small but growing realisation that Treason the FFC really is going to do them in if they don’t stop her . And that they really will be hitting the dole queue in Jizza’s Marxist paradise if they are not careful. Doing the right thing for the right reason is far, far beyond them. But doing it because they don’t want to drown in the dark and ill-smelling waters of Shit Creek is a possibility.
Rob
“They’ll need a political party and about 11 million votes.”
Why bother, it’s working just fine with the existing cretins in place?
Ecks
A fine sentiment, but correspondence with mine suggests he’s little more than one of May’s patsies.
For now anyway. Surely they will have to swap this idiot out pretty damned soon?
PF–That’s my point. Even the biggest idiots are getting a touch of fear at how big a kamikaze dickhead the bitch is. They knew Cheqs would not be the end of her sellout but they never envisaged the creature was as demented as she is.
It was known she was useless shite from her HO days. But it now seems that all the sly deceit, secret-keeping, brazen lying , sudden changes of direction–all the antics she is trying to pull on us –are all exactly how she was on a smaller scale at the HO.
In short is not just an evil slag but a mental case to boot.
An official rebuttal would be nice, along the lines of NO BRITISH PRIME MINISTER…..
‘According to draft documents, the EU wants to ensure the UK pledges to keep its tax rules aligned with those of the bloc as part of any future Brexit agreement.’
Then that wouldn’t be Brexit.
OTOH, sure, pledge any damn thing. Won’t matter later. Next PM can tell EU to pound sand.
This EU move could be useful. Theresa May has already pledged to lower corporation tax, and, of course, large swathes of the British public support Corbyn’s pledge to raise it.
https://www.ft.com/content/7579f124-5742-11e7-9fed-c19e2700005f
So connect the tax dispute to the fight against the EU. That’s what a Trump would do – but May?
The document was written by the European Parliament’s TAX3 secretariat following a meeting with the Brexit Task Force, the EU negotiating team led by Michel Barnier, last week.
https://brexitcentral.com/today/brexit-news-saturday-20-october/
And the Chinese Concessions Treaties played out soooo well, didn’t they?
So connect the tax dispute to the fight against the EU. That’s what a Trump would do – but May?
Boot the ball unerringly into her own net, assuming she can work out which net is her own.
…The referee has the whistle to his lips, and the 2018 play-off between Britain and Brussels is at last underway.
Davis slips it back to Fox, playing wide right tonight. Fox is looking for Boris Johnson, who hasn’t been seen since before the Heathrow third runway debate. But he dithers on the ball for too long and he’s brought down from behind, not by a Brussels player but by one of his own team-mates.
That challenge will earn Dominique Grieve the first yellow card of the match. The free kick is taken quickly by Soubry, who receives the ball back from Ken Clarke and sets off on a mazey run through her own defence before slotting it into an empty net.
One-nil to Brussels!
Quite remarkable. Brussels have taken the lead after less than a minute, yet haven’t had to venture out of their own half.
From the restart, Davis again finds Fox, but as he attempts to move the ball forward, he’s flattened by Hammond. There are appeals to let VAR review the incident, but the referee waves play on and the pass is again intercepted by Soubry.
She dances past one challenge, past two and squares to Nicky Morgan, who volleys the ball into her own net.
Another own goal!
Two-nil to Brussels, and under three minutes played…
Fixed:
…The referee has the whistle to his lips, and the 2018 play-off between Britain and Brussels is at last underway…