Starbucks admitted that while it can (quite incredibly) claim that  its 700 UK stores are not profitable, through wails of what seemed like  crocodile tears, its 30 coffee traders in Switzerland make an enormous  20% profit margin despite never seeing a coffee bean; a fact that the  committee could not have helped noting might be related to the 12% tax  it pays in that state.
It got worse for Starbucks when it admitted  that half its now notorious 6% royalty on sales made was paid to the  Netherlands, where it admitted little product development took place but  where it just happened to have a tax deal so favourable with the Dutch  government that it was not allowed to talk about it, at a stroke  confirming this to be tax avoidance, leaving the Netherlands with  serious questions to answer.