When even The Guardian says you’ve been numpties then yes, you’ve been numpties: It is not yet known how many groups have been affected in total. A Facebook spokeswoman explained that the profiles were suspended because they had not been registered correctly and denied that the removal of pages was politically motivated or instigated by [...]
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This is how you do it: A spokesman for Standard Chartered told The Daily Telegraph: “The bank will pay approximately $200m in UK corporation tax even though over 95pc of its profits are earned overseas, principally in Asia. Standard Chartered will pay over $1.7bn of tax on its profits of $6.12bn. Standard Chartered also pays [...]
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Apparently, Bank of America made for an irresistible first target. It received $45bn taxpayer bailout funds in 2008 and 2009 – and paid zero federal income tax in 2009. So, err, lessee. Why did Bank of America need a big bailout? Because it lost a lot of money. What do you pay the federal income [...]
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“Bank of America paid no federal tax and we gave it $45bn in the bailout,” said Alisa Harris, one of US Uncut’s New York organisers. “People are tired of sitting at their computers and seething, they want to get out there and do something, It’s not enough just to talk about it on Facebook.” Bank [...]
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