You couldn't make it up !

[Fly]

Dear Barry,

Revealed: private health companies taking up NHS contracts are lobbying hard for special new tax dodges. You couldn’t make it up, but that’s what a new government review of competition in the NHS is considering. [1]

Private health companies are lobbying Monitor, the government body in charge of the review. They want to be exempt from paying taxes like corporation tax on the profits they make from taking over NHS contracts. If they’re successful, millions could be lost in tax revenue and NHS contracts will be even more profitable for private health companies.

Monitor are preparing the report right now. [2] We haven't got long. We know they’ve heard from the big health companies, and now we need to make sure they hear from patients like us. Let’s send thousands of emails to Monitor and make it clear we don’t want private health companies let off paying any of their taxes.

Click here to send a quick email now - it’s really simple using the 38 Degrees website:
https://secure.38degrees.org.uk/nhs-monitor-tax-consultation

[chesterfieldchris]

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[Fly]

So I buy a fleet of ambulances, and the Royal agree to pay me £1,000,000 a year for my services.
Let's say a 10 year contract.
It costs me £800,000 to cover those services a year. Give or take replacement of vehicles etc.
That's £200,000 profit a year minus some tax, am I right.

Throw me some figures based on my example Cchris, considering the wording of tax breaks in my original post.
Genuine question 
What bit aren't 38degs up on  q?

[chesterfieldchris]

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[Fly]

Well it certainly changed something.

Dear Barry,

Well, that was quick! Yesterday afternoon 38 Degrees members started to contact the government body Monitor to tell them that we don’t want private health companies to be given tax breaks. It worked. Monitor quickly changed their tune and announced: 

“...Monitor will not be recommending that private sector providers should be exempt from paying corporation tax." [1]
That was a swift turnaround from the beginning of the day, when Monitor had refused to rule out this tax break: 

“We have had responses and held detailed conversations with providers from all sectors and we are taking time to analyse the evidence before drawing our final conclusions.” [2]
That’s a brilliant breakthrough. People power is working to outweigh the lobbying pressure of the big private health companies! By working together, we’ve ruled out a tax break which the private health industry had spent months lobbying for.

The office team phoned Monitor last night to confirm their change of position. They were clearly taken aback by the number of 38 Degrees members contacting them - and they were keen to know what they had to do to get us to stop putting them under pressure!

So far Monitor have only promised in writing to rule out exemptions from Corporation Tax. The 38 Degrees office is still waiting to receive a clear commitment that they’ll rule out any other new perks for private health companies. So we can't stop just yet.

You can send a quick email to Monitor thanking them for changing their position and asking them to rule out all tax breaks for private health companies here:
https://secure.38degrees.org.uk/nhs-monitor-tax-consultation

But before you do that, please take a moment to celebrate this amazing breakthrough. There's so much more to do if we're going to protect our NHS. It looks like we've seen off a terrible proposal which could have made things much worse. We did it because we all work together.


Thanks for all that you do,

Becky, Ian, Robin and all of the 38 Degrees team

[Old Cruser]

I've had that email as well Fly --- you beat me to it

[chesterfieldchris]

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