Archive for February 10th, 2015

Download for 99p or 99c

Tuesday, February 10th, 2015

The new Tor Raven novel HESS ENIGMA is now available for just 99p or 99c on Kindle for a short promo. Hurry, download NOW!! Or buy the paperback for £5.99

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Rudolf Hess, Hitler’s deputy and right hand man, flew to Scotland on a mysterious peace mission in 1941, which has never been convincingly explained, to meet unidentified politicians who wanted to end the war.  Who was plotting against Churchill? What were the peace terms on offer? What happened to Hess? Was he killed in the War? Was the prisoner in Spandau a double?

Taking place in the modern day but with flashback chapters which gradually unfold the hidden secrets, this tense thriller will draw you into a compelling read.

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Dodging Tax

Tuesday, February 10th, 2015

The big story of today is tax evasion in the Swiss office of Britain’s biggest bank and who knew about what when, from Cameron downwards.

Part of the problem is Britain’s tax code which runs to 17000 pages. Within it are multitudes of allowances, as well as loopholes and ambiguities. It is only a small step from an allowance to a loophole and from avoidance which is legal to evasion which is not. The solution may lie with a great deal of simplification, so that like VAT or PAYE there is little scope for argument or fraud without committing a crime. This blog favours the abolition of coporation tax and at the same time profit as a taxable event. Instead a turnover tax which would be paid wherever the money was transacted, irrespective of where the individual or corporation was domiciled, even if head office were on the moon.