Vodaphone protests on saturday

[ricgem2002]

Obviously it was all above board. If our system has loopholes then someone will take advantage of it.

 

Why pick on Vodafone when thousands of entities are doing similar things every day of the week?. Maybe on a smaller scale but it all counts.

 

Vodafone are not at fault for the state of our economy. 10 years ago this wouldn't have even made the news. If you are looking for a scapegoat you need to look elsewhere.

then maybe all these other companies need protests about their affairs too . people on here slag others off for benefit fraud yet are happy to let these companies get away scot free .

[Bloomdido]

There will be a protest at the bottom of Fargate, starting at 11 tomorrow (Saturday) . Some street theatre and stuff and then on to protest. I hope to be there.

[eastbank]

Vodafone deserve everything they get !!!!

 

 

wonder if vodaphone are paying for security....

[TeaFan]

Bad PR, loss of revenue, it really is the only language these people understand. Stick it to 'em!

[andygardener]

Obviously it was all above board. If our system has loopholes then someone will take advantage of it.

 

Why pick on Vodafone when thousands of entities are doing similar things every day of the week?. Maybe on a smaller scale but it all counts.

 

Vodafone are not at fault for the state of our economy. 10 years ago this wouldn't have even made the news. If you are looking for a scapegoat you need to look elsewhere.

 

When you look into the details of the affair it wasn't really a question of loopholes but the size of vodafone allowed them to bully HMRC (blame also to attached to HMRC for being weak of course) and instead of insisting on full payment they accepted less than a quarter of the tax owed. This, it now turns out, will be paid over a number of years rather than as a one off settlement.

 

There are probably many other offenders but given that vodafone is ranked #3 in the FTSE 100 it's as good a point as any for consumers to send a message to companies that if you don't pay your taxes, we won't buy your products and services with our hard earned and fully taxed money.

[upinwath]

That's what I really love about the left wing.

They moan on about people that have made something of themselves and want a share of their cash without any of the hard work, rick and effort.

That lot seem to think business is about paying lazy idiots to do nothing.

Tough. If you want a share of the sweeties, get off your lazy backsides and do something to get it.

 

The left are a bunch of pathetic idiots and will remain so.

[taxman]

That's what I really love about the left wing.

They moan on about people that have made something of themselves and want a share of their cash without any of the hard work, rick and effort.

That lot seem to think business is about paying lazy idiots to do nothing.

Tough. If you want a share of the sweeties, get off your lazy backsides and do something to get it.

 

The left are a bunch of pathetic idiots and will remain so.

 

Do you not think it is right that both people and companies should pay their taxes?

[upinwath]

Do you not think it is right that both people and companies should pay their taxes?

 

That would depend if the uses the tax goes to and if there is a legal way to avoid paying.

 

If the company pays tax in another country at a lower rate, that's good business.

 

If the government waste the tax money as the Labour government did, why pay it?

[Bloomdido]

UK UNCUT: 'SANTA GLUE IN' AS 55 ANTI-CUTS PROTESTS HIT TAX DODGERS ACROSS THE COUNTRY

 

"UK Uncut have today held their biggest day of action yet against the coalition's public sector cuts and wide-spread tax avoidance by the wealthiest in society.

 

Branded, 'pay-day', there are estimated to have been 55 protests by the Big Society Revenue Customs taking place on high streets up and down the country as people expose the arguments behind the austerity cuts as lies [1].

 

In Brighton, two activists dressed as Santa glued themselves inside BHS, while their 'disruptive tax dodger tour' also shut Dorothy Perkins and Burton. On Oxford Street, London, protestors were organised into two main blocks. Trading was disrupted at the flag-ship Topshop store as activists held a 'sport-day' with people holding egg and spoon races, playing football, doing sit-ups and star jumps, in an attempt to stop the £160m cuts to school sports. Further along the street, activists closed the flagship Vodafone store with a 'read-in' in an attempt to save public libraries from being axed.

 

There have been further confirmed store closures in Edinburgh, Truro, Manchester, Cambridge, Liverpool, Wrexham, Walthamstow, Brixton, Tunbridge Wells, Islington, Bristol, Nottingham, and Oxford.

 

Protests are believed to have taken place in a further 40 locations around Britain today.

 

Protesters have even designed an iPhone app to help people angry at the cuts to locate their local tax avoider and join their nearest protest [3]

 

Sir Philip Green and Vodafone remained the focus of the growing public anger, but Boots, M&S, Barclays and HSBC were also targeted nationally, as tax avoidance by multi-national corporations and extremely wealthy individuals, is estimated to cost the public purse £25billion every single year."

 

From their press release and I was at the Boots, Sheffield protest.

[hard2miss]

 

From their press release and I was at the Boots, Sheffield protest.

Good on ya mate