Round up of this weekends Tax Dodger actions
imc | 06.12.2010 11:43 | Public sector cuts
In the run up to Christmas, Tax Dodging stores across the country were closed in protest, amid growing public anger over the cuts.
Protests over tax avoidance by big business and wealthy individuals have hit high streets up and down the country today including Topshop's flagship store in Oxford Street, London [2 | 3].
Vodafone, Boots and Topshop stores were closed in - Nottingham, Birmingham, Brighton, Leeds, Sheffield [2], Manchester, Oxford, Newcastle and Haringey - with protests occuring in an additional 12 locations - Southampton, Stroud, Portsmouth, Lewisham, Reading, York, Leicester, Liverpool, Bristol, Glasgow, Cambridge and Edinburgh.
Many also made the connection between these Tax dodging actions and the Student occupations, in Sheffield and Nottingham.
Find out upcoming actions in your area. Some background information: UK Uncut | Tax Justice Network | Tax Research UK Blog
Some info from UK uncut website:
Sir Philip Green's empire Acardia is owned by Taveta Investments Limited - a holding company registered to a small office on the tax-haven island of Jersey.
Sir Philip Green is not however the official owner of Taveta Investments. Instead, the owners are his wife and immediate family, who reside in Monaco.
Monaco is of course famous for its 0% income tax. As a result, when Sir Philip Green - the 9th richest man in the UK with wealth estimated at £4.4bn in 2008 [7] - in 2005 made the largest single dividend payout in UK corporate history to his wife of £1.2bn, he avoided paying a reported £285million in tax to the British public purse.
Amid criticism from key MPs, Sir Philip Green was also asked by the coalition government this year to advise them on austerity and cuts within the civil service.
Daniel Garvin, 26, said "Philip Green is a multi-billionaire tax avoider, and yet is regarded by David Cameron as an appropriate man to advise the government on austerity. His missing millions need to be reclaimed and invested into public services, not into his wife's bank account."
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What about other tax-dodging companies?
09.12.2010 12:26
Graham Smith
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tax avoidance ?
02.01.2011 13:08
a little bit of tax avoidance is ok i think but not if you are supposed to be advising the government
on tax and are one of the richest people in the country , nay world.
if you have evidence of the gaurdian doing the same do share it instead of just making blank reference
to it , then people can do something about it and make it known to others.
this is the time to get up and do things about the problems we face instead of waiting for 'leaders' to dissapoint you
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What tax does the Guardian dodge?
13.01.2011 12:58
I would have thought a massive global chain of shops makes orders of magnitude more money than a small national newspaper.
anon