UKuncut TopShop Oxford Street London payday protest against tax avoidence

UKuncut are a campaign group focused on highlighting corporate tax avoiders. On Saturday the 18th December 2010 UK Uncut organised a UK wide set of protests targeting companies they believe have used tax avoidance to siphon off huge sums of money out of the United kingdom.

One target corporation is Arcadia which include such high street names as BHS, Burtons, Dorothy Perkins, Evans, Miss Selfridge, Outfit and Topshop. This video shows part of what happened at Topshop's flagship London Oxford Street store on one of the busiest shopping days of the year.

Philip Green is a multi-billionaire who runs the Arcadia Group which is owned by his tax exile wife Tina. In 2005 Arcadia paid a dividend of £1.2 billion -- the biggest payout in British corporate history -- to Green's wife. As a resident of Monaco, she pays no income tax, meaning that massive payday was entirely tax-free. The coalition UK Government then made Green a government adviser on cuts.

For more information on UK Uncut please visit:

http://www.ukuncut.org.uk/blog/press-release-santa-glue-in-as-55-anti-cuts-pr...

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Nonprofits & Activism

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• UK Uncut
• TopShop
• Oxford Street
• payday
• ukuncut
• tax
• avoidance
• Monaco
• Arcadia
• Philip Green

[aircrewuk]

These students make me laugh! pay your tax,who keeing most of them in college and university,us the tax payers.What makes me laugh as soon as topshop/topman have a sale on their all rush to get a bargin.Its simple,dont shop in his stores,oh sorry you will,dont students get 10% discount! Hipocrites

[mrdubcrazy]

Seig heil seig heil (saluting to the police BTW) They'll be goosestepping down the boulevard soon in a military might display! Might as well be paramilitary Junta in fuckin Mexico or some shit! Nat i mean?

[Khultan]

Corruption and fLAW enforcement.

[ivorbigonee]

wake up police men

[2ndSTARMAN]

@1:37 that dude on the left looks like he's going to quit. 'I signed up to protect people, not to let corrupt filthy merchants destroy my country's economics and then protect their operations from been stifled.'

[femguy]

so our future doctors,lawyers,scientists and the proffessionals that study and provide our communities with a service don't wash? be real man

[propertyentrepreneur]

Not really. Lifes losers demonstrating if anything their utter stupidity with this protest. A wash and a job would do the economy good.

[femguy]

and how predictable and archaic was that comment.

[propertyentrepreneur]

Great! If only the police could beat them some more. They should do something more productive like have a wash and get a job.

[femguy]

and they did try to protest outside parliment but were kettled and beaten for their attempts.