The Italian Cultural Institute and the Devolution Club invite you to the Seventh Italian-British Constitutional Conversation on
“The referendum in the United Kingdom”
Monday 21 May 2012 – 6.00 pm
Foreword: Alessandro Torre, Chairman of The Devolution Club
Chair: Brendan Donnelly, Director of The Federal Trust
Speaker: Dennis Kavanagh, University of Liverpool
Discussant: Peter Leyland, London Metropolitan University
To be held at the Italian Cultural Institute Of London, 39 Belgrave Square, London SW1X 8NX
To confirm your attendance, please e-mail [email protected]
This website needs updating to cover tax. Particularly the new federal income tax system for Scotland. Things seem to have moved on since February 2012. Question is whether, in due course, there will be a federal corporate tax rate; and/or VAT rate? The EU has been developing a system for a Common Consolidated Corporate Tax Base. It’s well worth looking at it. It might work better for a properly federal UK than for the EU. Why?
Same reason as the new federal income tax. Because Her Majesty will still be monarch of Scotland (1603 predates 1707; and it was a Scottish King who took the English throne and created the shared crown in 1603; things were different when the Acts of Union were signed in 1707).
And because it’s already established that Her Majesty’s Revenue & Customs (HMRC) collect taxes in the UK. There is no equivalent, trusted, established body for the EU. Yet.
If we were to actually get this referendum, which I doubt(refer to Decoy tactics in chess) The EU would be kicked so hard in the B******ks, it would be on its knees for years.