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Starbucks Has Refused to Comment on Plans to Tackle Tax Avoidance Agreed by G8 Leaders
Jun 20, 2013Coffee giant Starbucks has refused to comment on plans to tackle tax avoidance agreed by G8 leaders in Northern Ireland yesterday (June 18). Many have found Starbucks' UK tax strategy hard to swallow A spokeswoman for the firm ...
Tags: Tax avoidance, Archbishop of York, Starbucks, G8 Summit
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Ed Miliband Has Slammed Google's Tax Arrangements at Google's Big Tent Event Today
May 24, 2013Labour leader Ed Miliband has slammed Google's tax arrangements at Google's Big Tent event today. Google had denied accusations from MPs that it minimises the amount of tax paid in Britain. Its sales in the UK are worth £3.2bn, but ...
Tags: Ed Miliband, UK, Google
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Apple Has Set up a "Complex Web" of Offshore Entities to Avoid Paying Taxes
May 22, 2013Apple has set up three foreign subsidiaries that the company claims are not resident in any nation for taxing purposes, in an effort to avoid paying tens of billions of dollars in taxes to the U.S. and other countries, according to a new ...
Tags: Apple, Computer Products
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Associated British Foods Has "Emphatically" Denied Allegations of Tax Evasion on Profits
Feb 18, 2013Associated British Foods has "emphatically" denied allegations of tax evasion on profits made by its sugar processing operations in Zambia. In a report published by Action Aid at the weekend, the charity claims the Ryvita and Silver Spoon ...
Tags: ABF, Zambia, tax evasion on profits
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Simon Davies Blasted The Online Gaming Industry
Dec 24, 2012Simon Davies, founder of Privacy International, has blasted the online gaming industry for inadequately protecting gamblers' privacy and failing to adhere to basic principles of data protection. Further reading Information Commissioner ...
Tags: Simon Davies, Privacy International, online gaming industry, Gibraltar
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Google Paid a Tax Rate of 11.9 Per Cent in US Last Year
Aug 8, 2012Google paid a tax rate of 11.9 per cent in the US last year, according to a report in April from research and public policy organisation the Greenlining Institute, to the annoyance of many American tax campaigners who wonder why the company ...
Tags: Google, paltry rate, Greenlining Institute, tax havens