by Claire Aston | Dec 14, 2023
We’ve written for many years about the UK’s stubbornly high tax gap. This is the amount of tax that should have been paid if businesses and individuals had complied with all applicable tax legislation, but hasn’t been. The figure is estimated by HMRC for each tax...
by Claire Aston | Oct 16, 2023
• £60.5bn estimated UK revenues • £14.8bn estimated UK profits • £2.8bn estimated corporation tax @ 19% • £753m estimated UK corporation tax and digital services tax paid • £2.0bn estimated UK tax avoided In today’s new report, we analyse seven large US-based...
by Claire Aston | Oct 16, 2023
16th October 2023 £60.5bn estimated UK revenues £14.8bn estimated UK profits £2.8bn estimated corporation tax @ 19% £753m estimated UK corporation tax and digital services tax paid £2.0bn estimated UK tax avoided Introduction TaxWatch’s analysis of seven large...
by Alex Dunnagan | Jun 20, 2022
Online marketplace Etsy paid just £128,000 in UK Corporation Tax in 2020, whilst booking huge amounts of UK revenue in Ireland, new research from TaxWatch has found. As traditional bricks and mortar shops were hit by successive lockdowns as a result of the pandemic,...
by George Turner | Jun 20, 2022
20th June 2022 Etsy says that it is a company “committed to using the power of business and technology to strengthen communities and empower people around the world”. 1Prioritizing the people at the center of commerce, Etsy, https://advocacy.etsy.com/about/ But...
by Alex Dunnagan | May 24, 2022
The Centre for International Corporate Tax Accountability and Research (CICTAR) has today published its latest report looking at Amazon,1Amazon Tax Report, CICTAR, 24 May 2022, www.cictar.org/Amazon-Tax revealing the growth and scale of Amazon’s government contracts,...