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Facebook's UK wing paid just £4k in corporation tax last year

J.G.Harston Silver badge

They're not making a loss, as demonstrated that there was sufficient profit to pay £4000 tax on it. The profit is so low because they've spent almost all their trading surplus on paying staff and shareholders - who then pay a chunk of that in tax as income tax and national insurance.

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