Football fans ripped-off by the price of replica FIFA kits.
Production cost is less than 10% of selling price.
Companies inflate cost through contrived intragroup transactions via offshore entities, dodge taxes too.
I asked the UK govt to investigate.
Watch the Minister's reply.
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10 years after the Brexit vote.
UK economy is significantly smaller than it would otherwise have been.
Trade has suffered.
Business investment and productivity growth have stalled.
Families are on average thousands of pounds a year worse off.
10 years after the Brexit vote.
UK economy is significantly smaller than it would otherwise have been.
Trade has suffered.
Business investment and productivity growth have stalled.
Families are on average thousands of pounds a year worse off.
Result of Tory/Labour freeze of personal allowance at £12570 since April 2021.
Number of income tax payers: 2021/22, 33m; 2025/26, 39.1m.
Basic rate payers: 2021/22, 27.4m; 2025/26, 30.4m
Pensioners paying income tax: 2021/22, 6.74m; 2025/26, 8.72m.
More poor people paying income tax.
Forecasters were wrong about an immediate recession but right that we would be worse off outside the EU
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Forecasters were wrong about an immediate recession but right that we would be worse off outside the EU