Comment on HMRC puts 200 billionaires on UK tax crackdown hitlist
jabjoe@feddit.uk 2 days ago
Also tax the megacorps. The massive American tech monopolies are hooving money out of the county. In Amazon’s case, while selling cheap stuff that doesn’t comply to our market’s regulations. All of them are bending or just breaking our laws. They aren’t too big or American for us to tackle. We can tax them properly and make them comply with the laws. Though we can’t really break them up, like should happen in a sane system.
matelt@feddit.uk 2 days ago
Well I’m doing my bit, I’ve deleted my Amazon account a few years ago. You can get the same tat from the same sellers on eBay anyway.
jabjoe@feddit.uk 2 days ago
The problem with Amazon is one their anticompetitive practices is that you must sell on their platform cheapest to allow to sell on it. Even before you taken into account their own global postal services.
These guys want voting with your wallet as their wallet is a lot bigger. If any competition looks like real competition, the monopolies buy them.
Consumer choice isn’t going to solve this.
idealism_nearby@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Not to piss on your parade but one of the owners of eBay is BlackRock, and several other private equity firms. There might not be an individual name to hate, but it’s barely better.
I use it more than Amazon myself because of the free shipping, but I still don’t enjoy it
matelt@feddit.uk 2 days ago
Aw dammit!
Fluke@feddit.uk 1 day ago
That tat you buy from Amazon or eBay is bought from AliExpress and sold at a huge markup, just FYI.
If you really do need whatever it is, might as well get it from the source.
idealism_nearby@lemmy.world 1 day ago
There are very few options for UK replacements, even Argos is partially owned by Qatar or something like that.