Tax protesters to target Vodafone and Top Shop

[Joanne98]

Source: The Guardian

Corporate tax avoidance protesters plan to target Vodafone and Top Shop outlets in more than 50 towns and cities around the country tomorrow in the biggest day of action yet by the UK Uncut group.

The action, on traditionally the busiest pre-Christmas shopping day on the high street, will also be aimed at other stores, but the main focus will be Vodafone and outlets run by Sir Philip Green's Arcadia group.

The protests are organised locally – UK Uncut is a loose alliance of activists with little formal structure – so it is hard to gauge the scale of tomorrow'sevents. But the group's website has a list of more than 50 planned demonstrations around the country.

Most are likely to involve sit-ins of the sort which forced several branches of Vodafone and Top Shop to close briefly a fortnight ago, among them the latter's flagship store on London's Oxford Circus.



Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2010/dec/17/tax-protest-vodafone-top-shop

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Shaming the rich into paying their taxes. What a great idea. I wonder if it will work?

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