NEWS & MEDIA
The Bank of England has loaned £325 million to cruise ship companies despite the United States Government excluding the industry from its financial assistance programme due to its links to offshore tax havens.
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The decision of the European Court of Justice (ECJ) on the Apple case means that Ireland will have to pay back €13bn in taxes they were told to collect from the company by the European Commission. But that should not stop other governments making sure that tax is properly accounted for.
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The BoE has published a list of 53 companies receiving CCFF loans. We calculated that over 29% of the loans were given to companies with links to tax havens.
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Leaked documents reported in the Financial Times indicate that the UK is to make online marketplaces such as Amazon and eBay liable to collect VAT on behalf of their sellers.
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TAXWATCH INVESTIGATIONS
Swedish goats, Japanese hedgehogs and Batman
£324m of taxpayer money has been spent subsidising “culturally British” games, including Batman, Sonic, and Goat Simulator. To receive this relief, developers have to pass the BFI’s test – which we show is almost impossible to fail.
No Tax and Chill: Netflix’s Offshore Millions
Our research reveals that the online video company Netflix streamed up to $430m of profit from their international operations into tax havens in 2018, while paying no corporation tax in the UK.
Corporate Tax and Tech companies in the UK
Despite a supposed international clampdown, the top 5 tech companies avoided an estimated £5bn UK tax in last five years.