LISNews: - Comments for "British Novelist Calls On American
Mega-Companies to Help Save Britain&amp;#039;s Libraries"
Comments for "British Novelist Calls On American Mega-Companies
to Help Save Britain's Libraries" en Very very true. <p>But it
doesn't stop it being the responsibility of the politicians to
change things.<br /> Add European laws into the mix (Amazon UK
isn't in the UK it's in Luxembourg with much lower tax than the
UK) and it gets harder.</p> <p>The point is they are paying what
they have to pay. They are also paying National Insurance,
pension contributions and wages to their staff in the UK so it's
not that they are paying 'no tax'. It is not up to businesses to
pay the maximum they could (as that would be against the
businesses best interests, especially when it comes to
shareholders (biggest shareholders? Pension companies) who don't
want to be getting less money.</p> <p>The only people that can
change the way things are working are the politicians. We know
all the shortcuts, the ways they