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Who owns the other 80%.

I am no economist but consider this. We often hear about the poor old working class chap who despises the Amazons etc making huge profits. Now as far as I know there is not a Mr Amazon or a Mr Starbucks as they are all owned by the shareholders. The main shareholders in companies like that tend...

Surely the Amazon, Starbucks thing is more about the gains from having them in the country. Whilst they may legitimately pay less corporation tax HMRC benefit hugely from the tax paid by the employment they create. Better to have thousands of employees contributing to the coffers with tax and...