Comments on: The CBI’s desire for a tax cut http://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2007/05/16/the-cbis-desire-for-a-tax-cut/ Richard Murphy on tax and corporate accountability Thu, 28 Aug 2008 22:49:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: roger rabbit http://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2007/05/16/the-cbis-desire-for-a-tax-cut/#comment-59536 roger rabbit Wed, 16 May 2007 12:49:50 +0000 http://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2007/05/16/the-cbis-desire-for-a-tax-cut/#comment-59536 The ultimate aims of the President and the Director General of the CBI could probably be encapsulated in 3 principles: 1 tax rates to stay more or less the same for all individuals except "wealth creators" * 2 total exemption from income and inheritance tax for "wealth creators" * 3. absolute defence from insider trading charges for "wealth creators" * * = directors of FTSE 250 companies Oh please bring back the voice of comparative reason Digby Jones. The ultimate aims of the President and the Director General of the CBI could probably be encapsulated in 3 principles:

1 tax rates to stay more or less the same for all individuals except “wealth creators” *
2 total exemption from income and inheritance tax for “wealth creators” *
3. absolute defence from insider trading charges for “wealth creators” *

* = directors of FTSE 250 companies

Oh please bring back the voice of comparative reason Digby Jones.

]]> By: Anna Morser http://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2007/05/16/the-cbis-desire-for-a-tax-cut/#comment-59429 Anna Morser Wed, 16 May 2007 10:41:02 +0000 http://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2007/05/16/the-cbis-desire-for-a-tax-cut/#comment-59429 I find it a bit ironic that the CBI's president called on the government to increase spending on public infrastructure in the same week that they called for lower tax rates. http://www.cbi.org.uk/ndbs/press.nsf/0363c1f07c6ca12a8025671c00381cc7/290c0d2476e8191e802572d80047b4f5?OpenDocument I find it a bit ironic that the CBI’s president called on the government to increase spending on public infrastructure in the same week that they called for lower tax rates.
http://www.cbi.org.uk/ndbs/press.nsf/0363c1f07c6ca12a8025671c00381cc7/290c0d2476e8191e802572d80047b4f5?OpenDocument

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