UK Starbucks set to pay tax - at last

[arista]

Starbucks set to pay tax - at last:
Coffee giant bows to pressure from angry consumers and MPs
Global coffee giant attempts to ward off backlash over accounting methods
Paid just £8.6m corporation tax in 14 years, despite £3bn in sales
Firm has 'met with taxman to discuss paying more'
Starbucks has only posted a profit from UK business once in 15 years


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2241759/Starbucks-set-pay-tax--Coffee-giant-bows-pressure-angry-consumers-MPs.html#ixzz2Dul3Nm2Y

Link for Young Kizzy
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2012/dec/02/starbucks-review-uk-tax-arrangement


Is This People Power
or ruddy clever PR.


Sign Of The Times.

[Marcus.]

that good to hear

[Alf]

i'm a mashed(mellow) gash(birds) man myself

[arista]

i'm a mashed(mellow) gash(birds) man myself

Thats Dandy


But Paying UK Tax is above your Dips

[Kizzy]

The government blaming HMRC?
dearie me... Is there nothing theae greasy tories can't slither out of being held accountable for?...
If other companies trade at a loss they go bust....
Have starbucks gone bust?...no!

[arista]

The government blaming HMRC?
dearie me... Is there nothing theae greasy tories can't slither out of being held accountable for?...
If other companies trade at a loss they go bust....
Have starbucks gone bust?...no!


Kizzy
This goes back to Your New Labour.


Stop all this Political Trap

This is tax we need
Why the Feck did your New Labour not do it back in 1998

[Kizzy]

Kizzy
This goes back to Your New Labour.


Stop all this Political Trap

This is tax we need
Why the Feck did your New Labour not do it back in 1998

Ok point made, however the hypocritical stance dave has on blue collar workers who avoid paying tax...
Can't shift the goalposts.

[thesheriff443]

its about tme.
but kizzy is right!,the rich get richer.