If some companies are avoiding corporation tax then there are those
who say that they are doing nothing wrong. They say that any criticism
should not be aimed at companies like Amazon or Google or Starbucks but
at the government which allows avoidance. I have written previous blogs
on the Rolling Stones and Jimmy Carr, and the latter at least decided
that what he did may have been legal but it wasn't ethical.
In
the case of Starbucks it may be that their coffee outlets in the UK
aren't making a profit but how do they allow their traders in
Switzerland to make a healthy 20% profit without seeing a bean? This
type of avoidance needs a broader answer than that which may be supplied
by the UK government.
The companies are saying that
they have done nothing wrong. Where have I heard that before? Oh yes MPs
said that about their expenses.
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