# Tasse italiane su internet ed il resto dell'europa **URL:** \ **Category:** IT\ **Created:** [December 19, 2013, 5:06pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/tasse-italiane-su-internet-ed-il-resto-delleuropa/238146 "2013-12-19T17:06:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
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Sempre a proposito dell’UK Plan for Growth (che trovate sul sito [gov.uk](http://gov.uk), pi precisamente qui [https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment\_data/file/31584/2011budget\_growth.pdf](https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/31584/2011budget_growth.pdf) ) Vi riporto le premesse, la vision. * * * “This Plan for Growth is an urgent call for action. Britain has lost ground in the worlds economy, and needs to catch up. If we do not act now, jobs will be lost, our country will become poorer and we will find it difficult to afford the public services we all want. If we do not wake up to the world around us, our standard of living will fall, not rise. In the last decade other nations have worked hard to make their economies more competitive. They have reduced their business tax rates, removed barriers to enterprise, invested in their infrastructure, improved their education systems, reformed welfare and increased their exports. Sadly the reverse has happened in Britain over the last ten years. The UK economy stopped saving, investing and exporting and instead turned to a model of growth that failed. It resulted in rising levels of debt, over-leveraged banks, an unsustainable property boom, and a budget deficit that was forecast to be the largest of any of the worlds twenty leading economies. Continuously rising but unaffordable government spending disguised the fact that it was an unsustainable economic boom, with the economy becoming steadily more unbalanced, less competitive and less prepared to meet the challenges of the future. The facts today are staring Britain in the face. Weve gone from having the 3rd lowest corporate tax in the EU-15 to having the 7th highest. In the World Economic Forums Global Competitiveness Index, weve fallen from 4th to 12th. In education, the foundation of economic success, we have slipped back. In international rankings of excellence in maths, weve fallen from 8th to 28th, in science from 4th to 16th. Manufacturing has halved as a share of our economy, and 50 per cent of all manufacturing jobs have been lost. Our share of world exports has fallen from 4.4 per cent in 2000 to 2.8 per cent in 2009. These trends are not inevitable for an advanced economy: look at Germany whose share of world exports was 9.0 per cent in 2009 compared with 8.5 per cent in 2000. Not only do we export just a third as much as Germany, we even lie behind the Netherlands, a country a third our size. The consequence of this failure over the last decade to confront the causes of our relative economic decline is clear. Our economy has become more and more unbalanced. The gap between the prosperity of the South East and the rest of the UK has grown, as has the gap between the richest in our society and the poorest. This is the case even as government spending has grown to equal about half of the entire national economic output, paid for by our highest peacetime budget deficit. We literally cannot afford to go on like this. Britain has to earn its way in the modern world. We have to become much more productive so we can be a leading high tech, highly skilled economy. We must build a new model of economic growth where instead of borrowing from the rest of the world, we invest and we save and we export. Our economy must become more balanced. Private sector growth must take the place of government deficits, and prosperity must be shared across all parts of the UK. We want to remain the worlds leading centre for financial services, yes; but we should determine to become a world-leader in, for example, advanced manufacturing, life sciences, creative industries, green energy and non-financial business services. None of this will be easy to achieve. Difficult, far-reaching changes are needed to make our economy more competitive, the education of our children more effective, and government spending more productive. The Government has wasted little time in starting what needs to be done. We have set out a credible plan to tackle the budget deficit and bring economic stability. We have set in place annual reductions that will give us the lowest business tax rate in the G7, and reduced taxes on jobs for low and middle earners. We have protected the science budget so we can remain a magnet for technological leadership. We have found funding for a Green Investment Bank so we can get on with building a low carbon future. We are investing in the apprenticeships and innovation centres that industry needs. We have embarked on major reforms of our school, university, welfare, pension and health systems, to make them fit for the demands of the future. Those who oppose these reforms are the forces of stagnation who would commit our country to decline. But even all this is not enough. We now have to step up a gear. Our economy needs to become much more dynamic, less burdened by pointless barriers, and retooled for a high tech future, if we are going to create the jobs and prosperity we need for the next generation. We should never again allow our taxes to become uncompetitive, or drive valued entrepreneurs from our shores. If other nations are turning out smarter school and university students, we have to make sure ours are smarter still. We have to tear down the barriers to enterprise and economic development. Britain should be producing businesses that out-compete, out-smart and out-pace the rest of the world. That is what this Plan for Growth is all about. None of it is without controversy all of it involves choices about our priorities. But the alternative is to accept Britains economic decline and falling standards of living for our population. That is not a future we have to settle for. In the worlds race to the top, Britain can come out first.” * * * Notare la frase: Those who oppose these reforms are the forces of stagnation who would commit our country to decline che si applica bene al contesto web tax. Notare anche che UK un paese dell’UE E come si vede da qualche dato citato anche nel documento aveva ed ha i suoi bei problemi di crisi economica. Non vi dico poi cosa c’ scritto sui Piani economici di Svizzera ed USA se no fate biglietto e valigie entro domani 🙂 Comunque andate a leggere, interessante. Buone feste. E buon viaggio 😉 Sergio