Good luck tot them. There are far too many bigwigs and "special Talented people' who are ripping our society off. They want the benefits from our society yet they don't want to contribute. Pay your way like the rest of us.

And I wonder how many of the protesters were from the work shy tax shy brigade?

How about protesting outside the Job Centre against people who steal our tax by cheating benefits? Maybe when they go to sign on it will make them think a bit.

Genuine unemployed yes but not the cheats.

How about protesting against the council spending millions on revamping Central Library when it could be used to save jobs?

On eof the most impressive office buildings in Manchester is First Street. Superb with it's £300,000 of statues outside. It is a council building. Protest at that.

Protest at the fantastic new building next to Mancunian Way that the university has built whilst tuition fees is debated.

Protest against Labour who allowed a UK government owned bank to lend money to an American firm to buy a UK chocolate manufacturer only for them to announce that they will move production to Switzerland where they will save hundreds of millions in tax and it's UK workers will be on the dole. Fancy allowing that.

I applaud this public spirited action

100 protestors?? That will make all the difference!

What will the protesters say when they want a tradesman to do a job for them and they're offered a discount for cash so they 'don't have to pay the VAT'?
"No thank you.....I will pay you the full price!"

What do you think!?

So people are protesting against the legal activity of tax avoidance,but not the illegal activity of tax evasion.I presume they will want to stop the very widely used tax avoidance that is an ISA..
These Socialist protester create the feeling that by waving a magic wand all loopholes can be closed.
i was no fan of the last Labour government but i do realise that if there was an easy way to shut down tax loopholes they would have done it
Look at Cadbury they have relocated to Switzerland, to take advantage of lower corporation tax there.the result is that we no longer get any tax from Cadburys world wide sales only those from within the UK,quite a loss for the treasury.
Multi national companies will only have to change the location of their HQ to avoid any crackdown.
That said i would be very interested in any practical ideas,that those protesters have,on how tax loopholes can be closed that result in extra tax revenue being raised.
its easy to identify a problem but quite another thing to come up with solutions

Excellent idea to highlight these companies and their owners, who avoid paying tax by employing Accountants to identify loopholes.
The only people who pay the correct amount of tax, are the people who are employed on PAYE terms. They are in the middle and are being taken advantage of by the super rich at the top, who know all the loopholes and hide their money in tax havens, the self employed 'cash in the hand' crew and the ' don't work, won't work' mob at the bottom who take advantage of the benefits systems.
It's a disgusting situation when you hear of companies using off shore accounts and many of our MPs who have all their cash in tax free trusts. The working class keep this country going, it's always been the case and always will be.

How about protesting to get us out of europe and stop these foreign companies buying out british companies and sending the jobs abroad.just look at all our main industries that have been broken up or sold to other countries for peanuts .we have very little farming/fishing/or engineering We now have to buy most of our food from the EU? considering we were self surficiant before we joined the EU.We produced most of our own food .

I notice they didn't target educational establishments that create Chartered Accountants,the potential breeding ground for future advisers on this practice...

All power to them. We are talking about billions of pounds worth of tax evasion. So they are right to point out that we are NOT all in this together.

I Wonder how many of our small corner shops pay the proper taxes?. They are that greedy most of them would not open a tub of salt and throw it the snow and Ice the last few days.

'sir' philip green should pay back his tax to set an example to the likes of vodafone etc. it wouldn't even dent his billionaire bank balance and would repay the british public for their support for his companies.
alternatively, strip him of his knighthood and continue to hit him where it hurts.
we should all be protesting outside his stores,

MEN seems to have neglected to mention in its coverage of this, that UK Uncut are largely working through social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter - which is odd because the MEN usually love a story where Facebook is involved. Or perhaps the writer just didnt bother to do the research. if you want to get involved with UK Uncut, you will find the group on facebook. Also you might be interested in Falseeconomy.org - the MEN are so sad these days.

Boycott these stores,they are ripping off the country.

More protest please, and boycott these shops.

I didn't know about the Green's tax avoidance til I talked to a protestor outside Topshop yesterday. So disgusted was I that I left vowing never to shop there again & I walked straight into BHS but they didn't have my size so I went to Debenhams. No protestors at either of those.

If you don't know already why the protestors were wasting their time yesterday, have a look at the ownership of the two stores I mention above.

There is a simple issue here and that is, Is it fair and reasonable that throughout the western world the tax burden on the man and woman in the middle has got bigger and bigger whilst proportionately the burden on those at the top has got less. My tax burden is 33% of my earnings and then 15% on everything else I use or buy. In addition to this I also pay tax on my pension and savings and any interest I have accrued on my savings even though I have paid tax on them already. At the other end of the spectrum i will be penalised for having savings losing benefits at retirement and having to pay an additional contribution towards my Kids higher education. I am not saying that people should get a free ride and I don't expect something for nothing never have and never will. But neither should others be allowed or encouraged to exploit me because they simply have more.

The super rich are fleecing this country, you just have to look at the recent bank "bailouts" for evidence of this, bail us out or we'll fail they said, we're too big to fail, we'll take you down with us. So we did, and now a year or two down the line bonuses are bigger than ever, profits are back in the billions and who is paying for that? You and me, the oridinary man or woman in the street. Do you think the richest bankers are paying their fair share of tax?

Phillip Green pays himself £1.2BILLION yes, that's BILLION and still feels the need to avoid the tax on it? That's greed personified. Who here would complain about a payday like that? Vodafone makes BILLIONS every year and again feels the need to avoid the tax they should pay, that we all have to pay. These companies are happily taking your money and enjoying the benefits of operating in Britain but are unwilling to pay their fair share back into society.

Are the people on here who are defending these companies millionaires or billionaires themselves because if you are I can see where you're coming from, it pays to be extremely rich and complain about paying your share, otherwise you're just fooling yourselves, pulling the wool over your own eyes because you're paying just as much as me for their greed but you're willing to play the sheep and blindly follow on behind them.

Kraft are not moving Cadbury manuyfacturing. They're setting up a company in Switzerland which will hold the brand rights. Those rights will themn be "sold" to the UK business, greatly cutting the tax bill.

I assume then that you're with the protestors on this Bob?

So were they all upstanding tax-payers themselves or just a handful of studenty, benefits-financed anarchists who want to 'break the state' - whilst continuing to draw benefits?

The politics of envy creeps back into the UK. It was better when New Labour supporters pretended to be socialists.

I'm looking forward to the lefties causing more and more bother (as militant did) and confining Milliband and co to the political wasteland.

This tax avoidance line is the latest scam by those who are not willing to face the consequences of their policies which involve spending the money of those not born yet to enhance our standard of living today. It claims there are easy answers rather than hard choices, the choices the last government avoided.