CSR - How Companies Avoid Paying Tax

This is an emerging issue - and potentially a significant one too. I’m grateful to Peter Hill (Blessed Hugh Faringdon School) for sending me a link to ITN’s Tonight Show from last Thursday which examines the issue how Britain’s major companies are able to get away with paying so little corporation tax. According to Tonight, big businesses could be avoiding paying up to £12 billion in tax - by working within the system legally. But are they playing fair when the government says it is short of money? Here is the link to programme on ITV player.. At our AQA BUSS4 CPD days, we mentioned the emergence of NGOs like UK Uncut which are focusing on the low levels of taxation paid by well-known UK businesses. Here is a link to their current campaigns.