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To take slightly different slant on this subject, one of my annoyances is the practice of shops pricing things cheaper on their website than in their shop.
A recent purchase from a high street chain... by from the store at £600, or order from the website, and collect from store an hour later at £330....
OK, so this was flagged as a 'web special offer' - but it does seem to be a common practice for offering lower prices on the website.
Quote: Not to be paying VAT in the country of purchase is wrong.
Every one of us would avoid it if we thought we could get away with it.
Boots the Chemist relocated to Zurich. Was this for tax reasons?
Quote: We're not hiding our profits – we're reinvesting, says Boots owner Pessina
Italian who co-owns Alliance Boots with private equity firm KKR hits back angrily at criticism of the group's low tax bill
from here
there is always more to the story than the headlines
Quote: Not to be paying VAT in the country of purchase is wrong.
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Every one of us would avoid it if we thought we could get away with it.
Amazon don't avoid VAT, they avoid Corporation tax
They don't pay VAT, they collect it on behalf of HMRC, it is only the end user that pays VAT
Quote: Boots the Chemist relocated to Zurich. Was this for tax reasons?
Yep 
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1339026/Britains-biggest-firms-moving-of...
Some of the big water companies are also avoiding paying corporation tax, at the same time as paying large bonuses to bosses and getting tax incentives to invest in infrastructure back from the government. 
until we have an effective tax system such tax avoidance schemes are legal and it seems pointless to "Name & Shame" companies that make use of legal mechanisms to reduce their tax bills.
This simply lets the governments of the day (of what ever flavour) escape from their responsibilty to sort the system out.
The tax system in this country has become more and more bloated and less effective over decades
none of us will offer to pay more tax than we need
Quote: Until we have an effective tax system such tax avoidance schemes are legal and it seems pointless to "Name & Shame" companies that make use of legal mechanisms to reduce their tax bills.
This simply lets the governments of the day (of what ever flavour) escape from their responsibilty to sort the system out.
Without the naming and shaming there would be no calls to sort the system out...
Quote: unless the feeling is that we should all volunteer to pay more tax than we are required to by law.
. . . and we're all going to do that.
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