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Re: More cuts from failing Osborne
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Originally Posted by GrimUpNorth
Thanks Hugh but loosing the link to the article about the Osborne family business still managing to pay out £335,000 in dividends at the same time as things being so bad that it pays no corporation tax is poor editing. Unless you think what they are doing is morally acceptable?
Cheers
Grim
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You do know that Corporation Tax is paid on profits for that year, not turnover, don't you?
The previous years there had been losses in the business, with no dividends paid - link to annual reports here.
From Wiki - Osborne & Little recorded a pre-tax profit of £722,000 on turnover of £34 million in 2014/5. The highest paid director, possibly Peter Osborne, was paid £684,000. Using the 2014/15 UK income tax calculator reveals this would result in combined income tax and national insurance deductions of £310,838.28.
In 2015 it was revealed by Private Eye that, despite having made a pre-tax profit of £722,000, the company paid no corporation tax for the year 2015 – thereby avoiding a "tax bill" of £179,000. The magazine also revealed that the company had not paid any corporation tax since 2008 and had even received a tax credit of £12,000 in the year 2010. This was due to the company making losses totaling £9 million between 2009 and 2014, which allow the carry forward of credits for losses against the 2015 corporation tax bill.
Do you think that all of the hundreds of thousands of companies that offset Corporation Tax because of trading losses are in the wrong, or just Osborne & Little?
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