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Тест на тему Бизенесс Этика на англ языке
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BUS 9510 Business Ethics
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The US multinationals Starbucks, Google, and Amazon have been accused of not paying enough corporate tax in the UK. International companies are able to exploit national and international tax structures to minimize corporate tax. The outcome – they don’t pay their fair share. This happened after the executives had been heard by the parliamentary committee last month to face questions about their tax structures. They are accused of using loopholes to avoid paying their fair share. They are not accused of being illegal, they are accused of being immoral. Journalists were trying to reach out to them to ask questions but they all insist they pay enough taxes in the UK and around Europe. What’s changed in part is pressure from consumers. But Starbucks says it has listened to customer feedback and the feedback from employees. When you walk inside a Starbucks café you can see a board saying this is our community activity, showing pictures of people picking coffee beans in the rain forest. But you are struck by the contradiction – these people aren’t willing to pay their taxes in the UK.
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Starbucks tax schemes (transcript from CNN Money Program)
The report says Starbuck has avoided paying tax for one key reason – it has reported a loss for every single year it has arrived in the UK. That’s despite having opened 735 outlets. Take the last three years for example. During this period Starbucks racked up almost 2bn in sales. It said it made no profit so it paid no tax. In comparison McDonalds’ sales were 5.8bn and it paid 100mln in tax. The books confirmed that Starbucks hadn’t been profitable for ten years meaning it’s not liable for corporation tax. But investors said repeatedly that the UK business was profitable. This is how Starbucks have structured its profit. It buys coffee for Europe from Jamaica,
Panama and Costa Rica. The beans, however are not bought in the UK but from a firm based in Switzerland. After this the beans are shipped to Amsterdam where they are roasted; and then they finally reached the UK. It’s a complicated maneuver, but this supply chain is the way of pushing profits around the world and reducing the tax bill in a particular country. And all the practices applied by Starbucks are indeed legal. And in their statement in the UK it is written: “We will continue to pay our fair share of taxes to the letter of the law in the UK as we always have. This is in keeping with our values in business holding ourselves to the highest ethical standards, be it in the way we source our coffee or pay out taxes.”
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