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Tax, Profit and the UK High Street
On this week's show Aaron Bastani and James Butler discuss corporate tax avoidance by the likes of the Arcadia Group and Starbucks. Is such tax avoidance a necessity within the context of the Great Recession and a crisis of profitability?