Paul Lewis (of Radio 4 Moneybox, etc) reminded me of this 38 Degrees poster in a tweet last night. It seemed worthy of a seasonal outing:
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My Christmas humbug:
Amazon “paid £1.8m tax on sales of £3.35bn”. Whilst I am in no way saying that Amazon’s practices are fair, it always bugs me that these publications quote tax paid compared to revenue.
It is difficult to compare tax paid to profit (due to intra-company expenses etc being the key issue), but comparing tax to revenue is completely pointless.
Agreed
Entirely
We need financial literacy classes from school onwards on tax and other issues, including debt