• Digital Streaming Tax at source

    From Adrian Caspersz@email@here.invalid to uk.tech.digital-tv on Mon Nov 17 10:26:39 2025
    From Newsgroup: uk.tech.digital-tv

    At the moment a lot of information about our personal lives is given
    away to companies to exploit, most of it is taken free or with minimal
    back payment in the form of subsidies (that "cheap" smart TV). It
    probably is worth billions.

    HM Government should be the receiver of some (or most) of that, and
    should use it to fully fund the BBC, and subsidise taxes that are
    crippling UK businesses.

    TAX Google, Paramount, Microsoft, Amazon, etc, etc....

    That would be smart TV.




    I thank you.
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    Adrian C

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  • From JNugent@JNugent73@mail.com to uk.tech.digital-tv on Mon Nov 17 10:32:31 2025
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    On 17/11/2025 10:26 am, Adrian Caspersz wrote:

    At the moment a lot of information about our personal lives is given
    away to companies to exploit, most of it is taken free or with minimal
    back payment in the form of subsidies (that "cheap" smart TV). It
    probably is worth billions.

    HM Government should be the receiver of some (or most) of that, and
    should use it to fully fund the BBC, and subsidise taxes that are
    crippling UK businesses.

    TAX Google, Paramount, Microsoft, Amazon, etc, etc....

    That would be smart TV.

    What makes you think that the named companies don't pay UK taxes?
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  • From Spike@aero.spike@mail.com to uk.tech.digital-tv on Mon Nov 17 10:43:50 2025
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    Adrian Caspersz <email@here.invalid> wrote:

    At the moment a lot of information about our personal lives is given
    away to companies to exploit, most of it is taken free or with minimal
    back payment in the form of subsidies (that "cheap" smart TV). It
    probably is worth billions.

    HM Government should be the receiver of some (or most) of that, and
    should use it to fully fund the BBC, and subsidise taxes that are
    crippling UK businesses.

    TAX Google, Paramount, Microsoft, Amazon, etc, etc....

    That would be smart TV.

    I thank you.

    Unfortunately, Google, Paramount, Microsoft, Amazon, etc, offshore their
    tax liabilities and also employ very smart lawyers and accountants. This
    makes it very difficult for Rachel to go after them for the tens of
    billions she rCyneedsrCO. ItrCOs much easier to go after the ordinary people who
    have none of these tax-dodging schemes available.

    Stand by for a harsh budget next week.
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    Spike
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  • From Adrian Caspersz@email@here.invalid to uk.tech.digital-tv on Mon Nov 17 10:54:17 2025
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    On 17/11/2025 10:32, JNugent wrote:
    On 17/11/2025 10:26 am, Adrian Caspersz wrote:

    At the moment a lot of information about our personal lives is given
    away to companies to exploit, most of it is taken free or with minimal
    back payment in the form of subsidies (that "cheap" smart TV). It
    probably is worth billions.

    HM Government should be the receiver of some (or most) of that, and
    should use it to fully fund the BBC, and subsidise taxes that are
    crippling UK businesses.

    TAX Google, Paramount, Microsoft, Amazon, etc, etc....

    That would be smart TV.

    What makes you think that the named companies don't pay UK taxes?

    I'm not saying they don't, just give the Taxonomy rules a bit of a
    shake. Soak 'em.

    Take a lead from the Orange chimp, and announce it.
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    Adrian C
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  • From Adrian Caspersz@email@here.invalid to uk.tech.digital-tv on Mon Nov 17 11:24:05 2025
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    On 17/11/2025 10:43, Spike wrote:
    Adrian Caspersz <email@here.invalid> wrote:

    At the moment a lot of information about our personal lives is given
    away to companies to exploit, most of it is taken free or with minimal
    back payment in the form of subsidies (that "cheap" smart TV). It
    probably is worth billions.

    HM Government should be the receiver of some (or most) of that, and
    should use it to fully fund the BBC, and subsidise taxes that are
    crippling UK businesses.

    TAX Google, Paramount, Microsoft, Amazon, etc, etc....

    That would be smart TV.

    I thank you.

    Unfortunately, Google, Paramount, Microsoft, Amazon, etc, offshore their
    tax liabilities and also employ very smart lawyers and accountants.

    The UK Government is THE GOVERNMENT. Should have as much weight as my
    use of capitals there :|

    Smart evading lawyers and accountants that argue the toss between cakes
    and biscuits, should be sat down and given a talking to...

    This
    makes it very difficult for Rachel to go after them for the tens of
    billions she rCyneedsrCO. ItrCOs much easier to go after the ordinary people who
    have none of these tax-dodging schemes available.

    Stand by for a harsh budget next week.

    Ordinary people have the vote, so that will only go as far as we let it, however we vote in another bunch just as clueless to do as they will
    with our earnings and excess. Rinse and repeat.

    In an hundred years time, our Chancellor will be an AI. It will have a
    tuned algorithm (like Google SEO) that raises income and fines tax evaders.

    It started here ...

    "World's first AI minister will eliminate corruption, says Albania's PM" https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cm2znzgwj3xo


    Hmmm... Has anyone trained a LLM on just the UK's tax rules, the
    decisions of the many governments that have shaped those rules over
    centuries? Based on all that, what would the machine do now sat in
    Rachel Reeves seat?
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    Adrian C
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  • From Abandoned Trolley@that.bloke@microsoft.com to uk.tech.digital-tv on Mon Nov 17 11:39:24 2025
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    On 17/11/2025 10:26, Adrian Caspersz wrote:
    At the moment a lot of information about our personal lives is given
    away to companies to exploit, most of it is taken free or with minimal
    back payment in the form of subsidies (that "cheap" smart TV). It
    probably is worth billions.

    HM Government should be the receiver of some (or most) of that, and
    should use it to fully fund the BBC, and subsidise taxes that are
    crippling UK businesses.

    TAX Google, Paramount, Microsoft, Amazon, etc, etc....

    That would be smart TV.




    I thank you.


    I think its a hopeless idea, which simply diverts attention from the
    biblical scale of corporate tax avoidance in this country.

    We have long ago got to the point where payment of corporation tax is voluntary

    One of the very few half way sensible things that I have ever heard from
    Keir Starmer was the suggestion that capital controls might be reintroduced
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  • From Spike@aero.spike@mail.com to uk.tech.digital-tv on Mon Nov 17 12:00:19 2025
    From Newsgroup: uk.tech.digital-tv

    Adrian Caspersz <email@here.invalid> wrote:
    On 17/11/2025 10:43, Spike wrote:
    Adrian Caspersz <email@here.invalid> wrote:

    At the moment a lot of information about our personal lives is given
    away to companies to exploit, most of it is taken free or with minimal
    back payment in the form of subsidies (that "cheap" smart TV). It
    probably is worth billions.

    HM Government should be the receiver of some (or most) of that, and
    should use it to fully fund the BBC, and subsidise taxes that are
    crippling UK businesses.

    TAX Google, Paramount, Microsoft, Amazon, etc, etc....

    That would be smart TV.

    I thank you.

    Unfortunately, Google, Paramount, Microsoft, Amazon, etc, offshore their
    tax liabilities and also employ very smart lawyers and accountants.

    The UK Government is THE GOVERNMENT. Should have as much weight as my
    use of capitals there :|

    Smart evading lawyers and accountants that argue the toss between cakes
    and biscuits, should be sat down and given a talking to...

    This
    makes it very difficult for Rachel to go after them for the tens of
    billions she rCyneedsrCO. ItrCOs much easier to go after the ordinary people who
    have none of these tax-dodging schemes available.

    Stand by for a harsh budget next week.

    Ordinary people have the vote, so that will only go as far as we let it, however we vote in another bunch just as clueless to do as they will
    with our earnings and excess. Rinse and repeat.

    In an hundred years time, our Chancellor will be an AI. It will have a
    tuned algorithm (like Google SEO) that raises income and fines tax evaders.

    It started here ...

    "World's first AI minister will eliminate corruption, says Albania's PM" https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cm2znzgwj3xo

    ISTR someone said he would use computers to bring an end to Boom and Bust.
    I wonder how that worked outrCa

    Hmmm... Has anyone trained a LLM on just the UK's tax rules, the
    decisions of the many governments that have shaped those rules over centuries? Based on all that, what would the machine do now sat in
    Rachel Reeves seat?
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    Spike
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  • From alan_m@junk@admac.myzen.co.uk to uk.tech.digital-tv on Mon Nov 17 13:15:16 2025
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    On 17/11/2025 10:54, Adrian Caspersz wrote:

    I'm not saying they don't, just give the Taxonomy rules a bit of a
    shake. Soak 'em.

    With any taxation the ordinary consumer pays it in the end.
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