Every now
and then I have a rant about large multinational companies avoiding tax, it's perfectly
legal but socially immoral. Starbucks, Amazon and Google are now in the frame
and join the ranks of Vodafone, (see blog June 2012).
I read
with interest calls for boycotts of the 3 companies and have some sympathy with
this approach. I have already stopped using Starbucks. Somehow I don`t think it
will have much impact on coffee drinkers, internet searchers and book buyers.
The real
question must be what are the Government doing to make sure companies pay more
corporation tax on profits earned in the UK? Why can`t they stop multinationals
just shifting profits around the world to avoid tax? John Lewis recently called for action to put
everyone on a level playing field. At the very least the Government should
publish who pays and who avoids, or who are the most creative. I think we have
the right to know.
I was
going to Café Nero but just heard on the radio
that they are tainted to, so I am off to Costa for a coffee..
Cllr
George Crane
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