How a Tiny Town in Wales Might Force Huge Multinationals to Pay Their Taxes

The figures on corporate tax avoidance are both shocking and boring, as we've become accustom to the fact that big companies just don't pay tax. Yes, we know Amazon paid just £12million in corporation tax on £5.3billion of UK sales, that Boots has avoided paying more than £1billion of corporation tax since it went private eight years ago and Caffe Nero hasn't paid any corporation tax since 2007. But what can actually be done to make companies pay their fair share? UK Uncut, a protest group created to put pressure on companies who don't pay tax, seems to have fizzled away, their website no longer works. In both the 2010 and 2015 election campaigns, every party promised to clamp down on tax avoidance, and yet it continues, losing the treasury billions. It often feels like the ordinary taxpayer is utterly powerless to do anything about corporations avoiding tax, all the while being forced to pay every penny of their own tax bill or face serious consequences.