> You mean the richest, most successful, most popular, > most used by the UK population and most profitable? I mean young companies that don't contribute as

> You mean the richest, most successful, most popular, > most used by the UK population and most profitable? I mean young companies that don't contribute as much to election campaigns as older companies. > So in your opinion the UK press is in the pocket of the > government who're only highlighting morally > questionable tax avoidance as part of a shake down to > boost some sort of protection racket? That's what it > sounds like you're saying. I'm not saying that the UK press is an organ of the government. Rather, individual members of the government are complaining only about companies that do not give them (sufficient?) kickbacks. The press merely reports on these complaints, because true investigative journalism is rapidly dying out. The obvious solution is to close the "pick any EU nation to pay taxes in" loophole so companies are required to allocate taxes based in part on the geographical source of their revenue, but this would affect the companies that paid for those loopholes in the first place, so it will not soon happen. If the government were actually interested in punishing companies that pay taxes to Ireland for profits in the UK, they would have just done it instead of kick up a flurry of press releases.