article_snippet.sent: it Dutch division paid just £1.9million of tax, despite reporting profits of £300million – a meagre tax rate of less than 1per cent.
article_snippet.sent: This means that much of the money it makes from UK sales flows into jurisdictions that have lower or less stringent tax regimes.
article_snippet.sent: Revealed: it is now claimed the company, which has previously been in the spotlight for it tax practices, may have used a British company to put hefty sums from a British company Netherlands branch into UK .
article_snippet.sent: Between 1998 and 2012 a British company paid just £8.6million in corporation tax in Britain, despite racking up combined sales of more than £3billion here.
article_snippet.sent: But after a British company tactics were exposed, a British company offered to pay a voluntary £20million in tax to avoid a public boycott.
article_snippet.sent: Now details of a little-known tax division have emerged.
article_snippet.sent: But because of the very limited details available, it is impossible to identify how much money the arm received – or whether the arm paid any tax in UK.
article_snippet.sent: ’ Dutch businesses show that ’ Dutch businesses paid several million pounds a year into a little-known tax division.
article_snippet.sent: But without access to full corporate documents it is impossible to tell whether this remained in a little-known tax division or was funnelled straight into another tax haven.
article_snippet.sent: On this this paid taxes of just £232,363, as well as the sum of £11.2million as part of this voluntary £20million tax payment.
highlights_snippet.sent: But Dutch division paid just £1.9million tax on profits of £300million .
  