The Big Companies that most certainly aren’t ‘in this together’…
There's been on-off mentionings in the news of great companies evading tax, so I re-searched web as to the worst companies.& found this article: http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/tax/article.html?in_article_id=521644&in_page_id=11#ixzz1DYMu1Rim
But the quick list as to the worst offenders are:
Total number of subsidiaries in tax havens*
Shell - 47
HSBC - 62
BP - 85
Vodafone - 50
Glaxo - 13
Rio - 18
BHP - 24
British American Tobacco - 41
Lloyds Banking Group - 135
Unilever - 5
RBS - 121
Xstrata - 7
Barclays - 298
Diageo - 7
BG Group - 10
Tesco - 40
Standard Chartered - 37
Anglo-American - figures unavailable
SAB Miller - figures unavailable
Astrazeneca - 3
Total - 1003
*Tax havens analysed: Cayman Islands, Jersey and Guernsey, Isle of Man, Gibraltar, Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, Turks & Caicos Islands, Luxembourg, Vanuatua, Mauritius, Malta, Cyprus, Nauru, Monaco, Panama and Liechtenstein.'
~ For me this means I have conclusively the incentive to close my Barclay account & start a Co-op one; I’ll make sure to quote the article in my last email to them...
As for ceasing to shop food in Tesco, this will be considerably harder: it’s the nearest shop to me.
And the forced, american style ‘how are you’ chit chat that Sainbury insist their till-staff should engage in, still makes me shudder…