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Osborne is a tax avoiders dream, as a look at his own tax affairs proves

By David Posted on February 1, 2016 Posted in Aggregated No Comments Tagged with george osborne, google, Tax Avoidance, tax havens

‘George Osborne has yet again claimed the £130m tax settlement with Google is a “major success”, in response to continued criticism of the deal. The negotiations for the agreement, which effectively means Google will have paid a 3% tax rate in the UK over the last decade, were undertaken by HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC). […]

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George Osborne family business’ £6 million offshore deal

By ickonic Posted on July 8, 2015 Posted in Aggregated No Comments Tagged with george osborne, Tax Avoidance, tax havens, Taxes

‘Chancellor George Osborne’s family business made £6 million in a property deal with a developer based in a tax haven, a Channel 4 News investigation has found. Wallpaper firm Osborne & Little teamed up with a secretive corporation in the British Virgin Islands, to draw up plans to redevelop its former London headquarters into housing. […]

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George Osborne family business’ £6 million offshore deal

By ickonic Posted on July 8, 2015 Posted in Aggregated No Comments Tagged with george osborne, Tax Avoidance, tax havens, Taxes

‘Chancellor George Osborne’s family business made £6 million in a property deal with a developer based in a tax haven, a Channel 4 News investigation has found. Wallpaper firm Osborne & Little teamed up with a secretive corporation in the British Virgin Islands, to draw up plans to redevelop its former London headquarters into housing. […]

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US official says British government undermined progress on tax avoidance

By ickonic Posted on June 22, 2015 Posted in Aggregated No Comments Tagged with eu, george osborne, Tax Avoidance, USA

‘Britain has been attacked by a senior US official for undermining progress on a global clampdown on tax avoidance by multinationals ahead of an international agreement to be published at the G20 talks in the autumn. Efforts to establish standards that would prevent companies from shifting their profits across borders to avoid taxes are said […]

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Walmart Accused of Stashing $76 Billion in Assets in 78 Foreign Tax Havens

By ickonic Posted on June 22, 2015 Posted in Aggregated No Comments Tagged with Tax Avoidance, walmart

‘Walmart, the biggest retailer in the world, uses foreign tax shelters to stash $76 billion in assets in order to reduce the amount of taxes it has to pay to the U.S. government. A report (pdf) from Americans for Tax Fairness said Walmart had at least 78 offshore subsidiaries and branches to stash the assets […]

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UK trips up EU plan to ham string industrial-scale corporate tax avoidance

By ickonic Posted on June 20, 2015 Posted in Aggregated No Comments Tagged with eu, Loopholes, Tax Avoidance, Taxes, UK

‘Britain will not adopt new EU measures to tackle large-scale tax avoidance by multinational companies, the financial secretary to the Treasury has said. Brussels hopes to implement a longstanding tax harmonization plan to set common rules across member states, thereby closing legal loopholes multinationals currently exploit. A German member of the European Parliament (MEP) said […]

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Monsanto plans to move headquarters from US to UK

By ickonic Posted on June 10, 2015 Posted in Aggregated No Comments Tagged with glyphosate, monsanto, Tax Avoidance

‘Monsanto, the US seed and agrochemicals group known for its genetically modified crops, wants to switch its headquarters from the US to the UK as part of a complex merger deal designed to unlock tax […]

HMRC targets Etsy, eBay and Gumtree sellers – but when is your hobby taxable?

By David Icke Posted on May 31, 2015 Posted in Aggregated No Comments Tagged with eBay, Tax Avoidance

‘Thousands of online sellers who use websites such as eBay, Etsy, Amazon and Gumtree are the focus of fresh attempts by HM Revenue & Customs to crack down on tax evasion, Telegraph Money can disclose. […]

Amazon pays $16 million tax in Germany, while making $11.9 billion sales

By David Icke Posted on May 27, 2015 Posted in Aggregated No Comments Tagged with Amazon, germany, Tax Avoidance

‘Internet retailer Amazon.com Inc.’s main German operating unit paid just 11.9 million euros ($16 million) in tax in 2014, despite the group recording $11.9 billion in sales to German customers last year, regulatory filings show. […]

Corrupt Conservative Party Profiteering From Dodgy Tax Havens

By David Icke Posted on April 17, 2015 Posted in Aggregated No Comments Tagged with cameron, Tax Avoidance, tax havens

‘Conservative Party candidates are bankrolled by hedge fund donations siphoned to Westminster from lucrative tax havens including the Cayman Islands, new analysis suggests. Figures released on Thursday by the Electoral Commission detail donations received by […]

Corrupt Conservative Party Profiteering From Dodgy Tax Havens

By David Icke Posted on April 17, 2015 Posted in Aggregated No Comments Tagged with cameron, Tax Avoidance, tax havens

‘Conservative Party candidates are bankrolled by hedge fund donations siphoned to Westminster from lucrative tax havens including the Cayman Islands, new analysis suggests. Figures released on Thursday by the Electoral Commission detail donations received by […]

Rothschild Zionist Ed Miliband’s Rothschild Zionist adviser and Obama election guru David Axelrod pays no tax in Britain

By David Icke Posted on April 16, 2015 Posted in Aggregated No Comments Tagged with Tax Avoidance, UK

‘Ed Miliband’s most senior adviser pays no tax on his reported £300,000 earnings in Britain, The Telegraph has learned. David Axelrod, a former adviser to Barack Obama, admitted that he is not resident for tax […]

Nina Ricci heiress jailed for hiding millions from French tax authorities with Swiss HSBC

By David Icke Posted on April 14, 2015 Posted in Aggregated No Comments Tagged with france, hsbc, New World Order, Tax Avoidance

‘Britain has come under renewed criticism for its failure to prosecute tax evaders hiding cash at HSBC’s Swiss arm, as a French court handed down a jail sentence to the heiress of the Nina Ricci […]

£622m sales a year but Kellogg’s pays next to no tax in Britain: Cereal giant warns shareholders could be hit if Government closes loopholes

By David Icke Posted on April 6, 2015 Posted in Aggregated No Comments Tagged with Tax Avoidance, UK

‘Kellogg’s is the latest US owned multinational to be embroiled in the controversy over tax avoidance in Britain. The cereal giant warned shareholders its profits could be hit by government moves to close tax loopholes. […]

France told to put HSBC private bank on trial

By David Icke Posted on March 14, 2015 Posted in Aggregated No Comments Tagged with france, hsbc, money laundering, Tax Avoidance

‘The likelihood that the disgraced HSBC private bank will face criminal trial in France moved a step closer on Friday. The country’s financial state prosecutor has formally requested that the bank face a criminal trial […]