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January 31st, 2016:

Six British multinationals ‘did not pay any UK corporation tax in 2014’

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CHLOE FARAND: 31 JAN 2016

Lloyds, brewer SABMiller and drugs company AstraZeneca were also among the six multinationals not to have paid any corporation tax in 2014, reports the Sunday Times

The same year, the six British companies made a combined global profit of £30bn. 

Shell used a complex corporate structure, a company branch in Switzerland, with hardly any tax rates, and tax havens such as Bermuda to reduced its tax payments. 

In 2014, it paid no UK corporation tax but made a global profit of £19.87bn writes the Sunday paper.  read more

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Shell and BP brace for profit massacre

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THE carnage unleashed by the crash in crude prices will be laid bare this week when Britain’s biggest energy companies unveil plunging profits, billions in write-downs and confirm thousands of job losses.

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Zero tax bill for UK big six

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AT LEAST six of Britain’s 10 biggest multinationals — including Shell, British American Tobacco (BAT) and Lloyds Banking Group — paid no UK corporation tax in 2014 despite combined global profits of more than £30bn.

The oil giant Shell is just one of the multinationals with an outpost in Zug, a Swiss canton with rock bottom rates. From there, it licenses its trademarks around the world.

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Now gas joins oil on the way down

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Shareholders in Royal Dutch Shell waved through the oil giant’s controversial £36bn takeover of BG Group last week despite concerns that the 40% plunge in the oil price since the deal was announced last year meant the chief executive, Ben van Beurden, was vastly overpaying.

The Dutchman’s bet that the crude price will double from its current $36 a barrel is certainly ballsy. 

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Shell shares won’t run better just because BG’s been added to the tank

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Screen Shot 2016-01-31 at 08.30.26Shell shares won’t run better just because BG’s been added to the tank

By Ian McVeigh: 31 Jan 2016

Screen Shot 2016-01-31 at 08.31.55Shell’s bid for BG received an 83pc vote in favour from its shareholders.

For some time it has been apparent that Shell was irrevocably set on this course in spite of the collapse of the oil price. The image of a supertanker unable to stop inevitably springs to mind. I am sure BG shareholders can’t believe their luck. Their shares would be around half the current level without Shell’s bid.

For the fund management industry the vote in favour is hardly likely to go down as one of its finest moments, though a 17pc “no” vote is relatively large in such circumstances. read more

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Pension funds at risk as BP and Shell’s near £10bn profits slump sparks dividend payouts fears

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By JON REES FOR THE MAIL ON SUNDAY31 January 2016

Britain’s biggest oil groups will this week report a near £10billion slump in profits as the calamitous effect of the low oil price takes its toll on the blue chip giants.

Both BP and Shell are expected to see their full-year profits for 2015 slashed by about 40 per cent leading to fears that they will struggle to maintain their dividend payouts to shareholders.

BP is predicted to report profit for the year of $6.8billion (£4.8billion) down from $12.1billion previously, while Shell is set to report profit down to $10.7billion (£7.5billion) from $19billion. read more

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