Sports Direct owner Mike Ashley has offered to pay off his £605 million tax bill in Belgium with stock of equivalent value from his UK stores, it has been revealed today. Details remain sketchy at this stage but the deal is thought to comprise around a billion pairs of Lonsdale trainers, [read...]
Amazon has warned its customers to be ‘vigilant’ against scam emails. ‘Just because it says Amazon in the heading, and final demand in the text, it doesn’t mean you really owe HMRC billions of pounds,’ [read...]
Apple has won the race to become the first trillion dollar company as individual shares careered through the $207.05 barrier, beating rivals Google and Facebook to the coveted post. Apple’s success, say some, is due to a genius strategy of re-inventing the wheel. [read...]
‘People did initially find it interesting in the way six independent letters could be drawn, sometimes animated, but increasingly studies show they rarely notice what the Google artists have done in their endeavours to find videos of cats jumping or Boris Johnson looking like he’s been dragged through a hedge backwards,’ [read...]
Millions of UK tax payers may be sitting on vast holdings of Toblerone without declaring the assets to Her Majesty’s revenue and customs, Conservative ministers have claimed. ‘Swiss, d’you see,’ trumpeted George Osborne, ‘obviously we can’t let them get away with it!’ [read...]
