by George Turner | Aug 4, 2019
Activision Blizzard, the publisher of hit games Call of Duty, World of Warcraft, and Candy Crush, moved €5bn to companies in Bermuda and Barbados between 2013-2017. The report World of Taxcraft details how the corporate structure of Activision Blizzard, which includes...
by George Turner | Jun 27, 2019
Starbucks’s London based HQ for its Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) division returned $448m to its US parent company in 2018, but paid just $27m in tax after the majority of its non-UK income was exempted from tax. Is that just the international tax system...
by George Turner | Jun 5, 2019
The European Commission has replied to TaxWatch’s call to launch an investigation into the tax structure of Google. The Commission has said it will consider the information provided by TaxWatch as part of its ongoing investigation into tax agreements in Ireland and...
by George Turner | May 2, 2019
Mel Stride, the Financial Secretary to the Treasury, recently confirmed concerns raised in the latest TaxWatch report, that the UK’s tax treaties will render the government’s latest attempt to tax the tech giants ineffective. In our report we analysed the government’s...
