Re: The low hanging fruit, as always
How can you have identified all the problems then determine the solution is to carry on digging?
The solution is not to "illegally steal more" (whatever this means), but to ensure that the net tax reduction gained by setting up a subsidiary in the UK and paying another entity controlled by themselves with the price set by themselves for the rights to trade as themselves is zero.
Tax is so high that Amazon earns billions in profit and Bezos is the second-richest man on the planet. Amazon is so downtrodden by tax that analysts everywhere are recommending for 2023. Amazon can replace workers with robots and re-organise their warehouses so that the robots actually work as well as people if they so wish, but that should have no bearing on the tax they pay.
There are people who see IT just as a cost centre, and most commentards here know this is wrong. There are also those who see tax as a burden, but it's the price of civilization.
Now, on to energy:
To give that money to people so they will use more energy that we dont have.
So near yet so far, always failing at the last hurdle. Why don't we have energy? Centrica closed down storage, hoping to be the middleman because the lack of storage meant that they could do nothing else but than sell on excess gas to neighbouring countries and buy it in from neighbouring countries and take their cut.
It's now reopened and the UK can store a whole nine day's gas, up from three. Meanwhile other countries which invested in gas storage are in a much better position now to last the winter. They invested in storage, the UK closed it down.
We didn't invest in non-fossil fuels because that reduced shareholder profits. We just kept on as we were, and have come unstuck now. We're still not investing enough. 33% of UK energy is non-renewable and that figure must fall, not rise. Energy providers now threaten to pull UK investment over windfall tax, but this hasn't happened elsewhere in Europe and they weren't investing in the UK anyway.
So we are in a position where energy providers haven't invested or planned for the future and are just enjoying record profits brought about by scarcity. Your solution - that providers continue doing what they're doing and let them search for more fossil fuels or frack is just an evolutionary dead end. If providers don't do what they must then a windfall tax on excess profits (note: not profits) to reduce bills or invest in non-fossil fuel generation is perfectly reasonable.