Starbucks faces a boycott by thousands of customers who are angry over revelations that it has paid no tax in the UK for the past three years. Outraged protest groups last night promised ‘direct action’ against the coffee giant and threatened to try to close some branches.
It came as pressure mounted on the Government to close the loopholes that allowed the company to escape making any contributions to Treasury coffers through corporation tax –despite raking in billions of pounds in sales.
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I have long advocated a boycott of Starbucks on this Blog for 'crimes against coffee' but now, doubters must surely see that this bunch of scam merchants (literally) are not worthy of our custom on purely moral grounds!
