Fair tax

We have called a boycott of Amazon over its outrageous tax avoidance.

The time is right to focus on a company whose whole business model appears to be based on not paying its fair share of tax.

Fair tax is at the heart of a fair society. We set up the Fair Tax Foundation, alongside our partners, to award businesses with an open and responsible tax policy. Find out which companies have signed up.

Find out why we are campaigning for public bodies to be able to take into account the tax behaviour of companies like Amazon, who are bidding for their contracts.

Ethical Consumer has one ask for UK political parties in the 2024 election year.

This is to change the law to allow public authorities to take into account responsible tax conduct when awarding government contracts.

Tax avoidance is legal. So what is it and what's the problem with it?

Tax avoidance is shifting profits so you have to pay a lower rate of taxes. It involves using loop holes in tax systems so that you can reduce rates in a way that law makers never intended but which is entirely legal.

A list of 43 tax havens and how we rate companies on tax. 

A list of just some of the companies in our shopping guides who all score our worst rating for the likely use of tax avoidance strategies.

Includes Twitter links so you can contact the companies directly to ask when they are going to pay their fair share of tax.

Includes big name brands like Amazon, Barclays, Boots, Ikea, McDonalds, Nestle, Nike, and Starbucks.

We provide an introduction to tax avoidance by retailers including Amazon, explain why it matters, and what consumers can do about it.

The financial industry is notorious for tax avoidance – including some well-known high street brands. The majority of the financial institutions we’ve reviewed are high risk for tax avoidance strategies.

We found that many banks own multiple companies in tax havens.

Find out which banks are not paying their fair share of tax, and which ones are (hint, it's often building societies and the more ethical smaller banks which pay their fair share!).

An estimated  £7bn is lost to the UK public purse each year as a result of corporate profits being shifted to tax havens. 

Ethical Consumer has found that the companies behind many fashion brands, including the leaders of the fast fashion world, are either incorporated, or own high-risk subsidiaries in jurisdictions considered by Ethical Consumer to be tax havens.

Brands sponsoring the Olympic Games in Paris 2024 are coming in last place for tax conduct.

Only 15 brands have bagged the title “Worldwide Olympics Sponsors” – the highest level of Olympic sponsorship. This select few have exposure and advertising rights that few companies could dream of, and collectively provide around 30% of the games’ revenue.

All 15 worldwide sponsors received 0/100 for tax conduct in our recent analysis.

Research examining the tax conduct of Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, Google, and Microsoft in the ten years since 200 finds evidence of industrial-scale tax avoidance.

Corporation tax paid had been even lower than was commonly understood.