by Alex Dunnagan | Oct 18, 2020
18th October 2020 How EON Productions, the studio behind the James Bond films, has minimised UK tax for decades whilst receiving tens of millions of pounds in subsidy from the UK tax payer Introduction The British production company behind the hugely successful James...
by Alex Dunnagan | Sep 24, 2020
Netflix has agreed to respond to TaxWatch’s investigation into the company’s tax affairs after a request from the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) Committee. Our report revealed that the TV giant had streamed up to $430m of profits into offshore tax havens in...
by George Turner | Jul 15, 2020
The decision of the European Court of Justice (ECJ) on the Apple case means that Ireland will have to pay back €13bn in taxes they were told to collect from the company by the European Commission. The Commission’s ruling, which was annulled by the court, found...
by George Turner | Apr 14, 2020
Throughout the coronavirus crisis, technology companies have played an important role in efforts to combat the disease. Google has been using its data to monitor movements amongst the population and test the effectiveness of lockdown measures. Amazon has partnered...
by George Turner | Apr 8, 2020
A new study has shown that large technology companies have historically paid more than four times in tax on their US profits than on profits made in the rest of the world. In our latest study, we looked at pre-tax profits reported by major multinational companies in...
