I'm appalled!
It's a complete waste of public money. Why deploy 300 staff when 2 will achieve the same results?

Edited by TUX (16 Feb 2015 5.31pm)

Any chance of the whole article?

A Unite spokesman said: “This is another sorry attempt to slur Unite. The truth is that we pay every penny of tax that we owe because we

take our responsibilities to this nation seriously.

“The Exchequer has ruled that we do not have to pay corporation tax because of the suite of benefits we offer, including sickness and accident benefit, so relieving the state of the burden of providing those in need with financial support.

“This is what unions do. They take care of their members. It is deeply concerning that the Tory party cannot understand that and that instead it chooses to present this relationship as something warped.”

I hope Len McCluskey is being tax efficient, because he's on £140k a year - must be a struggle.

Nothing dodgy here then....

I'm glad they cleared that up about Corporation Tax.

Only thing though isn't it VAT that they are supposed to have "calculated incorrectly"

And I wouldn't trust a HMRC report on tax evasion as far as I could throw it. You can't calculate tax evasion figures, you can take a guess - but how can you quantify what you can't see!

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Interesting read.

Edited by imbored (17 Feb 2015 9.25pm)

Gusset,

Do you pay into a pension scheme?
Save in an ISA?
Dont pay tax on first £10k of income?

If yes, you're a tax avoider. Nothing illegal or immoral about it but hypocritical of you to point fingers at others who avoid tax in perfectly legitimate ways under our massively complicated tax code. Tax evasion, yes we can all complain about that. What would stop all this? A simple flat rate tax payable on all income period. 25% for everyone would probably raise billions more. You'd hate that though wouldn't you?

Yes, because if there's a flat tax individuals and companies earning millions or billions will suddenly want to be entirely honest and pay every penny owed .

These people influence laws governing taxes and 'loopholes'. They have resources to both avoid and evade tax that people on an average wage do not. They are sheltered by banks that intimidate newspapers into not publishing stories of their wrong doing. Reporters ordered to destroy all emails, reports and documents related to the HSBC investigation. God only knows why you'd defend them.

Edited by imbored (17 Feb 2015 11.05pm)

Yes but no one pays tax on the first 10k. ISA's hardly deal with millions of pounds per individual. This isn't what the thread is about.
However the bloke from Camberley seems to think that because pensions have tax breaks to encourage more to save for the future, that makes it ok for Starbucks to claim they aren't making any money whilst diverting monies here there and everywhere so as not to pay tax. Tax which could fund hospitals to heal the sick or housing so that ex servicemen (supposedly our boys and heroes) can live somewhere other than the street.

Edited by nickgusset (17 Feb 2015 11.36pm)