Comments by "Steve Parker" (@steveparker8065) on "Could Rishi hike windfall tax after Shells bumper profits?.....The Leader #podcast" video.

No, it's ok. You can't have rich people forced to suffer the burden of paying for the infrastructure they exploit for profit, leave that to the rest of us! Rich people are special and deserve every luxury our poverty can provide them!
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@cup1966wow Energy companies are making bumper profits while many thousands of elderly won't see the other side of winter... The threat of energy companies putting up prices if taxed more is a circular argument. These corporations get over £100 billion in tax breaks and subsidies from the taxpayer every year while costing the taxpayer between £40-120 billion annually via the tax gap. They should be paying more towards the infrastructure taxpayers fund that they use to make their profits.
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@cup1966wow Corbyn proposed enforcing transparency on the crown estates and overseas territories in a manifesto pledge when he run. If he'd been elected then transparency may have already been enforced by now. Meaning over 50% of global corporate tax fraud would have been stopped... I'm not sure why you're taking such a petty and unproductive attitude to my post. It's about as much use as a rubber beak to a woodpecker...
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@cup1966wow Well call for transparency on the crown, estates and oversea's territories then close the loopholes and enforce a robust corporate standards watchdog that has the power to hold corporations to account. Then use fines that are meaningful for those who break the standards. But this is all beside the point, the extra revenue from windfall taxes can help offset the cost to the public. The other issues are above my paygrade...
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@cup1966wow I'm aware of how the system works and calling me arrogant when you don't seem to fully understand that the crown estates and overseas territories' lack of transparency is the mechanism used to evade tax and hide profits - among others - is amusing. The UK is responsible for the majority of corporate tax losses globally. The criminal elite's money launderer. Money is simply a human construct used to allow a tiny minority to control the vast majority of the world's 'actual' resources. All the other cons are just the icing on the cake...
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