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Terra Infirma (workforce: me) pays more tax than Npower... #csr http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/npowers-three-years-of-zero-corporation-tax-8575099.html …pic.twitter.com/AuxCOPADKr
@GarethKane - maybe because power generation is more capital intensive than consulting?
@MForstater or maybe thru creative accounting? I also pay more UK CT than Twitter, Amazon and until recently Starbucks...
@GarethKane - except it doesn’t seem creative here. Unless we assume the that zero tax years mean something dodgy going on.
@MForstater "interest payments" to parent company to shift profits overseas - legal, but dubious.
@GarethKane - how do we know it is “interest” (inflated?) not just regular old non-dubious interest (normal business expense) though?
@MForstater it is very suspicious when so many UK branches of MNCs pay little/no tax in the UK but "owe" their parents substantial "debts".
@GarethKane - but isnt that exactly what you’d expect if investment is being made?Whether thru loans or equity will reduce tax liability
@MForstater but the companies admit the repayments are unrelated to specific investments.
@GarethKane - there is no suggestion that they are fake loans and fake interest - just that it “must be dodgy”
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