Extract from Westminster Hall debate on Financial Reward for Government Workers and Key Workers - Dec 14
Tuesday, 15 December 2020 07:56
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Navendu Mishra (Stockport) (Lab):...A good route for the Treasury
to raise revenue is by ensuring that businesses pay their fair
share of tax, by tackling tax avoidance and the use of offshore
havens once and for all. For example, over the past 20 years,
Amazon paid just £61.7 million in corporation tax, despite its UK
sales surging more than 26% to almost £14 billion in the past year
alone. We cannot continue down a path on which businesses can
afford to pay out millions to shareholders...Request free trial
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