Apple makes £1.4bn but avoids almost all tax on UK sales, with a deferred payment of just £6.2m

Sure, but lets say you make burgers. You sell em at a quid, you make a few jobs, people love em.

To keep your business operating you're now shipping containers around the world constantly 24/7/365. The amount of litter in the streets just doubled. People are having heart attacks at a younger age and it's costing the country billions in healthcare costs.

But hey, you don't pay taxes to offset any of that because you charge £1 a burger and don't make any profit. Is that fair? The only reason you are in business is because your burgers are £1 and if you put the price up your business is no longer viable because your competitors sell better burgers for those prices.

Why should business get to do whatever they want in the name of profit with zero oversight? Why is it considered a win as long as they're making some money in the end, even if they don't contribute to our society at all while doing so?

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