To boycott Facebook

[wasonthelist]

As they are paying so little Corporation tax. If they want to do business here, surely they should pay, like my local shops and taxi firms have to?

No YANBU but it won't make a blind bit of difference

That'll learn em.

It would hurt you more than it would hurt them tbh.

You're not wrong about the tax though.

Do what you like, they won't give a shit.

If you're deleting your account though make sure you do it properly; if you deactivate they'll still hold all your data.

I know they won't care. It won't make much difference to me, I am not on there every five minutes. It's not really about making them change, more about me personally not supporting them.

Corporation tax is tied to profits, profits don't include wages paid to staff. FB paid their staff massive bonuses, an average of £210000 in 2014, each got a share of around 35million. When doing the math, if they'd not paid the profits to their employees and paid corporation tax the Govt would have got less than they actually got in income tax from the bonuses. I believe this is the case at least as I'm not a financial advisor etc. But basically the Govt for more doing it FBs way than they would if they'd done it the other way. Also, they have done nothing illegal or wrong , if anything you should boycott the Govt for setting the tax laws how they are.

So you're not a big user and by the time you deregister another billion people will have signed up - but you think you're teaching them a lesson do you?
Ok then.

Average of £210,000 going to each Facebook employee. Quick sum, that's 167 employees, if we divide £35m by that figure. Quickly scoot over to a PAYE calculator. That's £80,643 income tax per employee, and another £7,471 NI. Totalling £88,114 paid to HMRC per employee. Multiply that by 167: £14, 715, 038.
Contrast that to CT on £35m? £7m
So really, HMRC have made twice as much money this way than if Facebook had just paid corporation tax.

So you're not a big user and by the time you deregister another billion people will have signed up - but you think you're teaching them a lesson do you? Ok then

OP didn't say she was teaching them a lesson. She doesn't want to support them. It's a matter of personal principles. Some people have them.