This petition was submitted during the 2010 to 2015 Parliament
Rejected petition Stop Starbucks Tax Avoidance
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How can Starbucks tell Companies House and HMRC that its UK business is loss-making but tell analysts in SEC-regulated calls that the UK business is profit-making, without either making misleading financial statements or filing false accounts?
How is it possible that Starbucks paid only £8.3m on sales of over £3bn since 1998?
This culture of tax evasion sets a bad example and if the problem isn't addressed now, HMRC will lose even more revenue in the future.
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