John Christensen ■ Alliance Boots: tax cheats

Alliance Boots: tax cheats

John Christensen

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9 June 2014

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BOOTS AVOIDING TAXES RISKS PUBLIC HEALTH

JOIN WAR ON WANT, UNITE, MEDACT AND CHANGE TO WIN TO PROTEST BOOTS’ TAX AVOIDANCE AND ITS IMPACTS ON PUBLIC HEALTH

11^th June 2014 @ 10am

Boots’ flagship store, 361 Oxford Street, London.

Anti-poverty campaigners will be protesting Alliance Boots’ tax avoidance and its risk to public health and the NHS on 11^th June at 10am outside the Boots flagship store on Oxford Street.

Full address: Sedley Place, 361 Oxford Street, London W1C 2JL.

The action comes on the heels of a recent letter to HMRC and the Treasury by a coalition of activists (Unite, War on Want, Medact, Tax Justice Network, Tax Research UK and Change to Win) to investigate the company’s use of limited liability partnerships and tax havens.

Further information:

UK government urged to probe Alliance Boots over Tax Affairs, Bloomberg, 29/05/2014.

Claim Boots Underpaid UK Tax by £1.3bn, Irish Examiner, 30/05/2014.

Contact [email protected] for further details.

The author

John Christensen

Trained as a forensic auditor and economist, John has worked in many countries around the world, including a period of working in offshore financial services with Touche Ross & Co. For 11 years he was economic adviser to the government of the British Channel Island of Jersey.In 2003 he became what the Guardian has described as “the unlikely figurehead of a worldwide campaign against tax avoidance.” His research on offshore finance has been widely published in books and academic journals, and John has taken part in many films, television documentaries and radio programmes.John can be contacted on +44 (0) 7979 868302.

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