It's an in-joke (of sorts) in the UK, Andrew. The large international
corporations pay as little tax as possible in the UK. Some grand fromage from
Starbucks had an interview with a House of Commons Select Committee before
Christmas. Your experience shows, perhaps, that they make on both ends of the
transaction.
Chris
On 31 Jan 2013, at 06:12, Andrew Fildes <afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Really? When I wanted to set up some books for Kindle, they were very keen to
> discounted any profit margin cheque they felt like sending me once in a blue
> moon if the planets were aligned if they could be bothered - by 30% for US
> taxes (which I was free to try and recover myself, yeah sure).
> Blurb just credits my Paypal account by the full amount monthly. How nice.
> Evil I calls it.
> Andrew Fildes
> afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> www.soultheft.com
> Author/Publisher: The SLR Compendium - http://www.blurb.com/books/3732813
>
>
>
> On 31/01/2013, at 4:47 PM, Chris Barker wrote:
>
>> The bit about Amazon is worrying, Chuck: that company gets everywhere (and
>> doesn't pay taxes . . .)
>
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