Are these figures true?

[Pete]

[Old Cruser]

Interesting one Pete, it's a possibilty I suppose - but not what we are being led to believe 

[chesterfieldchris]

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[Pete]

So you don't know then - and not given to any kind of estimate?

Anyone else have any idea, without turning the thread into a political debate?

[Fly]

Anything worth looking at here.

http://www.tuc.org.uk/economy/tuc-14238-f0.cfm

[Pete]

Good find Fly - certainly helps build a picture of what is really going on whilst the politicians spin away like the inept liars I consider them to be.

[Fly]

Globally: 90% of offshore financial wealth is actually evaded tax.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-19150593

[chesterfieldchris]

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[Pete]

Still, it all helps build a picture of what's actually going on.

If I find any more recent figures I'll post them here.

[Pete]

One of Britain's biggest multinationals, whose brands include Silver Spoon sugar, Twinings Tea and Kingsmill bread, is avoiding paying millions of pounds of tax in an African state blighted by malnutrition,

The Zambian sugar-producing subsidiary of Associated British Foods, a FTSE100 company, contributed virtually no corporation tax to the state's exchequer between 2007 and 2012, and none at all for two of those years.

The firm, Zambia Sugar, has recently posted record pre-tax profits and its huge plantation is increasing its capacity to produce more sugar for markets in Europe and Africa. Yet it paid less than 0.5% of its $123m pre-tax profits in corporation tax between 2007 and 2012.

Capitalism needs to look at itself - if unchecked, what will the world be like in 10 or 20 years...

http://bit.ly/XjBQzi

[Fly]

They're denying it.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/02/10/abf-tax-idUSL5N0BA3CF20130210

[Fly]

Greedy bankers.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/banksandfinance/9859934/Barclays-to-close-tax-unit.html

Panorama Monday night looks interesting.