Sheffield Right To Work - Vodafone Protest (17/11/10)

Vodafone, the world's largest mobile telecommunications firm has done a deal with HMRC that means it will not pay around £6 billion tax.

The £6 billion is almost exactly the amount the government wants to cut by forcing 500,000 people off incapacity benefits and on to jobseeker's allowance.

Bosses of Britain's greediest firms will be eyeing Vodafone's example. Half a million of the country's poorest people are wondering how they will survive after their benefits are cut.

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• vodafone
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• workers
• students
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[gerryalsoknownas]

For those who want to find out more about this kind of corporate mimicking of real individuals google ‘astroturfing’ and those who want to find out about the £6 billion tax bill that Vodafone’s lawyer’s cleverly turned into £1.24 billion search that too.

[gerryalsoknownas]

The likely hood of a public individual searching out this video and feeling so strongly about Vodafone’s ‘right’ to EVADE (not avoid- which is bizarrely legal, but not open to the abuse of the non-super rich because of PAYE) taxes is so far fetched it leads me to believe that perhaps there are Vodafone employee’s or associates employed to muddy the debate. The corporation spend so much on PR they would be keen for this story to dismissed as the ‘naive’ actions of hippy ‘soap dodgers’?!?

[frostyjamesfrosty]

WHAT A SET OF BELLENDS

[bjscott779]

You people really need to wake up. The people who work in the shop are genuine tax paying people who have absolutely no control over the "alleged tax payments". If you actually gave a shit you'd pay the train fare to newbury and protest someone makes these decisions... Get a grip !

[loljerryjacksonlol]

Yes, they are just. It's called "how to run a business effectively". Noone runs a business to make a loss. You guys are clearly barking up the wrong tree, if you have such a gripe with voda, it's no big secret that their head office is in Newbury, why not go there? The only people you're harming by closing stores down is the people who work there for whom commission makes up a large part of their pay, on which they pay tax. You were clearly not giving them their 'Right to Work', were you?getajob

[gerryalsoknownas]

For those wanting to know more about the vodafone tax dodge see:

private-eye.co.uk/sections.php­?section_link=in_the_back&issu­e=1275

or

guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2­010/nov/14/vodafone-tax-evasio­n-revenue-customs

[gerryalsoknownas]

Not that its entirely relevant, but I'll answer your question. It was actually on Wednesday lunch time so some people were on their lunch break others had done earlier shifts and so had finished work for the day, and others were students who had seminars/lectures soon after. Me personally Im off this week. If the mass redundancies go through, you're right their might be more people with time on their hands.

I take it by the tone of the reply you think it just that vodafone's actions are just?

[loljerryjacksonlol]

I can see that on a weekday morning that clearly none of you guys are excercising your 'Right to Work' which, if you can drag yourselves away from the giro office or the sofa in front of the Jeremy Kyle Show and hold banners up then there is clearly no feasible excuse why you lot can't all get off your arses and find work. If you had a job then maybe the welfare state wouldnt be your primary concern. Tax dodgers? More like soap dodgers! How much tax to YOU all pay, anyway? Kids in glass houses..