loudmouthblue
Vital Football Hero
I don't disagree that there would be money in them doing it, and supported you in regards to it being something that can be done.
Starbucks have all sorts of "licensing/trademark" deals, purchasing of beans etc. which make sure the money flows out of the UK and to where ever has less tax. A lot of companies are extremely creative with operating on loans, with the interest being paid to parent companies offshore and the interest being untaxable.
Its just I doubt if it'd make sense to do it on such a small scale, based on the time to set it all up correctly/cost of keeping that kinda thing going (and without mistakes) and might not be worth the effort for them right now (hence the lower bid).
I though they had lost the ability to do it because of the changes to free movement of workers due to brexit ?
I have no problem if it was a tax saving/avoidance scheme as long as it was legal and enabled us to survive and thrive in the future, but we won't know now what ever they planned, and I won't loose any sleep over that either.