You know, it’s amazing that no politicians are putting pressure on chains like Starbucks. The worst that could happen is they leave the UK, another (hopefully independent) coffee shop would quickly fill the gaps left on our high streets. It’s win-win, so the question is why aren’t they?
Oh we know fully well. The Government doesn’t do anything about it either
Starbucks is fucking overpriced shit as well, not sure how it makes that much money
False dichotomy. It’s both.
Michael Taylor
It’s almost as if they are *totally different problems*
And yet all their customers pay vat on the coffee they buy.
Aaaaand the Home Secretary has just announced that those who can afford it will be fast tracked through the immigration system.
Tells you exactly who they’re looking out for.
Thats Michael Taylor, who’s online social handle is shifting shares.
Aside from the obvious, he makes interesting, topical and educational type videos with regards to finance and goings-on in the UK. He [quite rightfully] hates Starbucks and other large global tax-dodging organisations.
He’s worth a follow!
Michael Taylor
Cant we look at fixing both. Everyone going mad on here like the govt can only fix one issue at a time. Our expectations have been engineered to be this low.
Don’t hate the player, hate the game.
We can focus on both
[Joke] I don’t understand?
I always love the defence of these companies not getting a fair tax is they will just leave
Fuck off they aren’t throwing away 50m profit because you taxed them an extra 50m
The small boats is a relatively minor problem that gets disproportionate coverage. Corporate tax avoidance is already being tackled but it’s not glamorous or headline grabbing. It’s incredibly tedious and the people who get the most likes are people like Michael Taylor or Richard Murphy who offer little of substance on the matter other than stoking division.
Taxing multinationals isn’t straightforward but the days of aggressive tax avoidance by large groups are long gone. They are allowed to follow the law efficiently but artificially creating uncommercial structures doesn’t work in the UK. The US aside, there is a huge amount of cooperation between nations to restrict this too but it’s a work in progress.
Don’t buy Starbucks then… pretty simple.
They do employ millions however who do pay income tax. So its not actually as bad as this post implys.
For the record I’m mad about both, this isn’t an either or issue.
It’s not just Starbucks, it’s Google, Microsoft, Costa, Pepsi, nestle, apple, Tesla, etc etc. is it a billion dollar corporation that operates in this country? Then They place close to 0 tax, WITH the added exemption of personal payments to government officials of course. Wouldn’t want those poor sods to go starving now would we?
Rockstar games also uses the game development tax breaks initiative (previously known as VGTR) by somehow claiming that GTA has British values. They claimed tax credits worth up to 20% of their production costs for GTA5.
In 2020-2021, that was 68.4 million quid in just 1 year.
That’s almost 69 million in taxes that could have gone back towards education, the NHS…
They were the largest beneficiary of the tax scheme.
Basically, corporations are taking the piss. Whoever this twitter guy is, he speaks the truth. These corporations are using every loophole known to avoid paying corporation tax. All while us regularly working people are losing significant chunks of our salaries to income tax, not to mention the shit ton of VAT everywhere.
But yes, the massive deficit, the lack of investment into the NHS… it’s the small boats that are the problem. Definitely not billion dollar corporations avoiding to pay 10s if not 100’s of million in taxes each year.
You mean to tell us that the poor people aren’t the ones ripping us off?
But we have a choice if we use them or not, we have no choice with the boats.
If you’re focusing on the small boats you are probably not focusing on the mega yachts.
Christ. These people are insufferable.
“Half the population is so thick they do whatever the tabloids tell them to do. Uncontrolled illegal boat landings aren’t a problem because a coffee chain doesn’t pay enough tax”
Honestly. Just fuck off with this shit.
How about I condemn both illegal, uncontrolled, mass migration AND scumbag billionaires/ corporations pissing down on people.
I can hold more than one opinion and disagree with more than one thing, Mike.
As an American lobbed against my will into this timeline……the absolute efforts to pay attention to distraction, and not “what the other hand is doing” is very real.
Keep people distracted and they won’t see what you’re actually up to. Worryingly I think this will be the thing we look back on in a dystopian future and facepalm over.
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You know, it’s amazing that no politicians are putting pressure on chains like Starbucks. The worst that could happen is they leave the UK, another (hopefully independent) coffee shop would quickly fill the gaps left on our high streets. It’s win-win, so the question is why aren’t they?
Oh we know fully well. The Government doesn’t do anything about it either
Starbucks is fucking overpriced shit as well, not sure how it makes that much money
False dichotomy. It’s both.
Michael Taylor
It’s almost as if they are *totally different problems*
And yet all their customers pay vat on the coffee they buy.
Aaaaand the Home Secretary has just announced that those who can afford it will be fast tracked through the immigration system.
Tells you exactly who they’re looking out for.
Thats Michael Taylor, who’s online social handle is shifting shares.
Aside from the obvious, he makes interesting, topical and educational type videos with regards to finance and goings-on in the UK. He [quite rightfully] hates Starbucks and other large global tax-dodging organisations.
He’s worth a follow!
Michael Taylor
Cant we look at fixing both. Everyone going mad on here like the govt can only fix one issue at a time. Our expectations have been engineered to be this low.
Don’t hate the player, hate the game.
We can focus on both
[Joke] I don’t understand?
I always love the defence of these companies not getting a fair tax is they will just leave
Fuck off they aren’t throwing away 50m profit because you taxed them an extra 50m
The small boats is a relatively minor problem that gets disproportionate coverage. Corporate tax avoidance is already being tackled but it’s not glamorous or headline grabbing. It’s incredibly tedious and the people who get the most likes are people like Michael Taylor or Richard Murphy who offer little of substance on the matter other than stoking division.
Taxing multinationals isn’t straightforward but the days of aggressive tax avoidance by large groups are long gone. They are allowed to follow the law efficiently but artificially creating uncommercial structures doesn’t work in the UK. The US aside, there is a huge amount of cooperation between nations to restrict this too but it’s a work in progress.
Don’t buy Starbucks then… pretty simple.
They do employ millions however who do pay income tax. So its not actually as bad as this post implys.
For the record I’m mad about both, this isn’t an either or issue.
It’s not just Starbucks, it’s Google, Microsoft, Costa, Pepsi, nestle, apple, Tesla, etc etc. is it a billion dollar corporation that operates in this country? Then They place close to 0 tax, WITH the added exemption of personal payments to government officials of course. Wouldn’t want those poor sods to go starving now would we?
Rockstar games also uses the game development tax breaks initiative (previously known as VGTR) by somehow claiming that GTA has British values. They claimed tax credits worth up to 20% of their production costs for GTA5.
In 2020-2021, that was 68.4 million quid in just 1 year.
That’s almost 69 million in taxes that could have gone back towards education, the NHS…
They were the largest beneficiary of the tax scheme.
[https://www.taxwatchuk.org/rockstar_games_tax_relief/](https://www.taxwatchuk.org/rockstar_games_tax_relief/)
Basically, corporations are taking the piss. Whoever this twitter guy is, he speaks the truth. These corporations are using every loophole known to avoid paying corporation tax. All while us regularly working people are losing significant chunks of our salaries to income tax, not to mention the shit ton of VAT everywhere.
But yes, the massive deficit, the lack of investment into the NHS… it’s the small boats that are the problem. Definitely not billion dollar corporations avoiding to pay 10s if not 100’s of million in taxes each year.
You mean to tell us that the poor people aren’t the ones ripping us off?
But we have a choice if we use them or not, we have no choice with the boats.
If you’re focusing on the small boats you are probably not focusing on the mega yachts.
Christ. These people are insufferable.
“Half the population is so thick they do whatever the tabloids tell them to do. Uncontrolled illegal boat landings aren’t a problem because a coffee chain doesn’t pay enough tax”
Honestly. Just fuck off with this shit.
How about I condemn both illegal, uncontrolled, mass migration AND scumbag billionaires/ corporations pissing down on people.
I can hold more than one opinion and disagree with more than one thing, Mike.
As an American lobbed against my will into this timeline……the absolute efforts to pay attention to distraction, and not “what the other hand is doing” is very real.
Keep people distracted and they won’t see what you’re actually up to. Worryingly I think this will be the thing we look back on in a dystopian future and facepalm over.
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