Starbucks, Google And Amazon Face MPs On Tax

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Starbucks reportedly paid just £8.6m in corporation tax in 14 years of trading in Britain. It was also revealed it paid no corporation tax for the past three years, despite sales of £1.2bn in the UK.


Amazon, Britain's largest online retailer generated UK sales over the past three years of between £7.6bn and £10.3bn, but paid virtually no corporation tax.


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Executives from Amazon, Google and Starbucks give evidence before the Public Accounts Committee on the issue of tax avoidance.

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So now we know: the sickly sweet smell that hits you when you go into a branch of Starbucks does not emanate only from their coffee.

The nauseating stink comes all the way from Seattle, where the company is based. It is the stench of corporate hypocrisy. Starbucks is a global corporation, second only to McDonald’s in the world, with a billion-pound business in Britain. Yet we are told the company has paid practically no tax here since it began trading 14 years ago. So much for the ‘ethics’ and ‘responsibility’ that it boasts of on its website.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/money/new...hypocrisy.html

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Starbucks reportedly paid just £8.6m in corporation tax in 14 years of trading in Britain. It was also revealed it paid no corporation tax for the past three years, despite sales of £1.2bn in the UK.


Amazon, Britain's largest online retailer generated UK sales over the past three years of between £7.6bn and £10.3bn, but paid virtually no corporation tax.


http://news.sky.com/story/1010332/st...ace-mps-on-tax

I visited Starbucks once. They didn't sell Nescafe which is what I like and I had to learn faux Italian before I could get a cup of anything. Haven't been since. Wife buys rather nice veggie pies though while I am next door gnawing the leg off a passing cat.
Amazon involves buying stuff over the internet from lying Americans (sorry - tautology) and I dont trust Google with my info.
I cannot see the logic of purchasing something I will surely have when I get home. Bit like that other nonsense brand 'Subway'.
Who would buy a sarni from a shop? If I go to a restaurant I want something that either I dont get at home or something which is a pain in the arse to prepare. Not sandwiches and coffee.

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I see a tall poppy.