Cadbury tax bill takes the biscuit
■ AS you quite rightly state, the majority of people in the UK are sick and tired of hearing about large companies and individuals avoiding paying full tax by using legal loopholes (Mirror, October 11).
However, where there is a will there is a way. The Government should close these loopholes immediately to ensure they receive the revenue due.
In these times of austerity it is a disgraceful state of affairs that the Treasury is being deprived of these funds. In the meantime, the public should be encouraged to boycott these companies until they are either made to pay their fair share or do so voluntarily.
Alan McLean, Llanbrynmair, Powys
■ Mondelez UK paid no corporation tax on the profits Cadbury’s made on its UK business.
I lay the blame at the feet of the former director and shareholders who took the money and ran without any thought of what they left in their wake – factories closed and thousands of job losses. It’s time the Government stopped the haemorrhaging of iconic British firms like Cadbury and Jaguar Land Rover to foreign owners as it puts the country in a position of weakness.
Mick Rutland, Stocktonon-Tees, Co Durham
■ The latest story about Mondelez UK, the British offshoot of chocolate firm Cadbury, avoiding corporation tax should not be a surprise. We’ll most likely be reading this story again next year, but concerning Costa Coffee which has been bought by CocaCola. We are the biggest mugs in the world for allowing foreign firms, mainly American, to take over our best names. They see us as a cash cow. I struggle to think of any of our brands that are actually still British. Pip Crowhurst, Braintree, Essex
■ Mondelez UK has no shame about not paying corporation tax. Like all of these large taxavoiding companies – Google, Amazon and so on – they simply state they are complying with our tax laws, which they are.
But the truth is our tax laws are woefully weak, as they are in most other countries. Another truth is that the Tory party relies on contributions from big business and are therefore very reluctant to force these corporations to pay their way.
To experience shame you have to have a conscience and these people do not have one.
Terry Marriott Waterlooville, Hants
■ It’s ironic that Donald Trump is always going on about unfair trade deals with the rest of the world US-owned firms seem notorious at avoiding paying their fair share of tax in Britain where they make massive profits. Diane Silva, Lytham St Annes, Lancs
■ I haven’t eaten any Cadbury’s products for over a year now and I won’t until they start paying their tax. I hope others will do the same. Jan Attkins, Brodick, North Ayrshire
■ Regarding Cadbury’s, this is what happens when companies sell out to foreign giants who don’t care about Britain.
Rob Houghton, Derby