HMRC
Highlight keywords |
Print this article
Search site for keywords: Tax - Wealth - Austerity - Super-rich - Big business - HMRC
We are the 99% - Take the wealth off the 1% Socialist Party placard, photo Paul Mattsson (Click to enlarge)
Tax the 1%
Sam Morecroft
We all know the score. Put your hand in the till at work, you're gonna get sacked. Snatch someone's purse or wallet and you'll likely have the police after you. Hold up a bank and you'll get 15 years in prison, minimum, just like that.
Robbery comes with consequences - for us. But not for them. When it comes to the super rich - the people who own the likes of Google, Vodafone and British American Tobacco - they're free to rob taxpayers blind. They pay virtually no tax, and face no more serious consequences than a cheery handshake and a knowing smile from Chancellor Osborne and the rest of the Tory millionaires.
Despite the huge wealth these corporations possess, the reality is they are allowed a free pass in Britain and around the world.
More importantly, that's what austerity is all about - getting rid of everything these billions of pounds of avoided tax should be paying for. Austerity is about allowing the super-rich to rob us blind, while their politicians butcher the jobs and services we rely on.
It's time to fight back. It's time to take the wealth off the 1% and put it to good use, democratically planning a society fit for all to live in.
- Close the tax loopholes and reverse HMRC cuts - collect the £120 billion avoided tax
- Nationalise the banks, big business and tax avoiders under democratic control
- End austerity - take the wealth off the 1% and invest it in jobs and services
Donate to the Socialist Party
Finance appeal
The coronavirus crisis has laid bare the class character of society in numerous ways. It is making clear to many that it is the working class that keeps society running, not the CEOs of major corporations.
The results of austerity have been graphically demonstrated as public services strain to cope with the crisis.
The government has now ripped up its 'austerity' mantra and turned to policies that not long ago were denounced as socialist. But after the corona crisis, it will try to make the working class pay for it, by trying to claw back what has been given.
- The Socialist Party's material is more vital than ever, so we can continue to report from workers who are fighting for better health and safety measures, against layoffs, for adequate staffing levels, etc.
- When the health crisis subsides, we must be ready for the stormy events ahead and the need to arm workers' movements with a socialist programme - one which puts the health and needs of humanity before the profits of a few.
Inevitably, during the crisis we have not been able to sell the Socialist and raise funds in the ways we normally would.
We therefore urgently appeal to all our viewers to donate to our Fighting Fund.
LATEST POSTS
12 May Stop Israeli state brutality
 |
9 May Post-election meetings
15 May Birmingham Socialist Party: How can we fight for socialist change and a new workers' party?
17 May Oxfordshire & Aylesbury Socialist Party: The role of the state
18 May Bristol North Socialist Party: Liverpool - history of socialist struggle
CONTACT US
Phone our national office on 020 8988 8777
Email: [email protected]
Locate your nearest Socialist Party branch Text your name and postcode to 07761 818 206
Regional Socialist Party organisers:
Eastern: 079 8202 1969
East Mids: 077 3797 8057
London: 075 4018 9052
North East: 078 4114 4890
North West 079 5437 6096
South West: 077 5979 6478
Southern: 078 3368 1910
Wales: 079 3539 1947
West Mids: 024 7655 5620
Yorkshire: 078 0983 9793
ABOUT US
ARCHIVE
2020
2019
2018
2017
2016
2015
2014
2013
2012
2011
2010
2009
2008
2007
2006
2005
2004
2003
2002
2001
2000
1999