philmophlegm | Phligm Phlagm Taxation Bollocks Special!

There has been so much utter bollocks spouted by uninformed commentators (many of whom unfortunately are senior politicians whose job it is to know about such things, even the Chief Secretary to the Treasury), that I’ve wanted to do a post on this subject for quite some time. But then I’ve read lots that are better than anything I’d write, so I thought I’d just do a special corporate taxation edition of Phligm Phlagm, mostly brought to you by king_pellinor (a Chartered Tax Adviser and Head of Tax for a firm of chartered accountants [k_p – feel free to provide the name of the firm if you want publicity and don’t if you don’t]) with the occasional insight from other, equally sound commentators.

It’s mostly corporate taxation, with a bit of personal thrown in for good measure.

Why does the word "tax" mean people abandon all logic and sense?

Uninformed commentary

Olympic tax breaks

More tax silliness

Google tax dodging

Is this unacceptable tax planning?

Starbucks and Google and so on

Ignore sales figures

Don't ignore sales

"Loopholes"

MPs have no clue whatsoever