Taking on the tax dodgers...

[David Johnson]

!wink!

[max_tranmere]

He's certainly clever, Philip Green. You would think he owns nothing when you look at how he's arranged his business affairs.

[max_tranmere]

I think Jimmy Carr got his tax bill down to one percent. Mick Jagger, for example, has paid no tax here since the 1960s but they still knighted him. At least Jimmy Carr pays a bit. Maybe the peerage is on its way.

[max_tranmere]

I think Amazon are worse than Stabucks but the strange thing is there are so many large companies doing what the companies that have been in the news recently have been doing - and they are not mentioned in the media. The press seem to have picked these few out. Amazon won't have any sales reductions over Christmas, people will say what they've done is bad but still buy from them.

[max_tranmere]

I agree that the claims from the government that they'll do something are all hot air, they think that if they say they'll do something everyone will assume they ARE doing something and that will be enough. 6 months or a year later and nothing is done at all, rather the same with everything they say about immigration.

You're right that nothing these large comapnies have done is illegal. Immoral, yes - but illegal, no.

Boycotting the companies may make some difference, shaming them in the media may make some differnce too. The most annoying thing is if these outfits end up paying a lot more in tax it will not be the over-paid directors, or shareholders, who will suffer - but the low paid workforce by employing less staff and making the remaining staff work twice as hard.

I think people are creatures of habit though and will continue to shop where they have always done. I doubt Stabucks or Amazon will suffer from a reduction in trade.

[Arginald Valleywater]

Being a tad anti slave labour I also avoid Costa as their parent company is the same as the shit of the highstreets aka Primark.