I like this:
I like what the accompanying web site says it seeks to do:
Introducing the Tax Tick:
A speculative idea that would enable the man in the street to support companies that don't use tax avoidance schemes, by choosing to buy products displaying a "TaxTicked" logo.
I've no idea if it will work.
But right now I'm sure there are a lot of people who really do dislike those who abuse our tax system.
It would of course help if our government stopped using them. People like our major banks and all the large firms of accountants plus all the major lawyers would fail immediately.
Wouldn't it be good if the government made compliance with this process a condition for securing state contracts?
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Thanks Richard!
Polly Toynbee’s given it a word of support too – one word exactly: “Brilliant!”
Really, I’d welcome visitors’ comments on the concept.
Alistair McKechnie
It’s a great plan. But the logo is appalling.
Re your last para. It really is a no-brainer, isn’t it.
if its such a grand scheme why do you need government to support it? Presumably those that use it will get a competitive edge – or perhaps they won’t!
Two ideas on Richard’s website I agree with in one year – I must be going soft!
This is a perfectly sensible way of allowing consumers to choose for themselves how they feel about tax avoidance – and also a good business opportunity for those (Alistair?) who carry out the “tax ticked audit”.
I really want to believe in this.
But who is going to decide who gets ticked? Also those companies who are good at avoiding tax are likely to also be good at spinning a line to whoever is doing the ticking.
Finally, I have my doubts about the Great British Public. Faced with paying a ticked supplier or someone who is not ticked but whose prices are that little bit less, I think I know what most will choose.
It’s a lovely idea but I am afraid it is wishful thinking.
Can we also have a ‘Wealth & Safety Warning’ – for branches of Boots & other places – ‘This may look like a viable company but has been hollowed out by parasites’. The logo could be a pile of sawdust and some second hand IOUs.