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> 362 Facebook staff on an average salary of say £65,000 will contribute at least £7,230,696.60 in taxes and NI to HMRC

Let's not pretend all 362 Facebook staff are paying tax via PAYE.

I'd be happy to pretend that. Most of Facebook UK staff are actually employed here as high value employees (engineers, sales). I'd be very surprised if there were many contractors here in the UK.

maybe stupid question: do you expect a lot of fake contractors or there is another way? Because if they are contractors they wouldn't be part of those 362 in staff right?

I think the parent is referring to contractors, who avoid PAYE but still have to pay dividend and corporation tax. The dividend tax rate is about to go up so the PAYE issue is about to become void.

Sorry, I was more thinking of the executives, whose large salaries would skew the average, and would have a complicated compensation package, and can afford accountants to do creative accounting. I do not know if there are executives included in that 362 employee figure.

oh right, good point. If only journalism wasn't in such a sorry state, we might know the answer to that question. They might be drawing a high salary, equally they might be drawing no salary at all and living as non doms.

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