Currys online order from czech Republic!!!!

happyc84

Ordered a new fridge from well known On-line retailer Currys, was surprised to see the transaction had been authorised from the Czech republic.

Interesting that another UK company is avoiding UK tax by using this loophole. Now if they had said on their check-out page that this would be processed through a non-uk location, I would have said, no, as I pay my taxes in the uk, and I expect my traders to contribute their bit to the uK. Does anyone know if any online traders who don't use this loophole. Of course its for the politicians to sort out this mess.

visidigi

uhhhh spam. or PEBKAC (google it).

WTFH

Yes, Currys Shared Services Centre is in the Czech Republic.

That dies not mean they are not paying taxes in the uk. It is not a loophole. It is a common business practice for companies which operate in different countries to have one place where they process orders.
And due to people demanding cheaper and cheaper goods, fueled by their personal greed, then the companies have to shift jobs off-shore to be able to be competitive.

If you don't like it, buy from a local retailer and keep your town going!

happyc84

WTFH wrote: »

Yes, Currys Shared Services Centre is in the Czech Republic.


If you don't like it, buy from a local retailer and keep your town going!

if you had only read my full post. it was because I didn't have all the facts to make an informed choice


Now if they had said on their check-out page that this would be processed through a non-uk location, I would have said, no, as I pay my taxes in the uk, and I expect my traders to contribute their bit to the uK

mije1983

happyc84 wrote: »

if you had only read my full post.

I pay my taxes in the uk, and I expect my traders to contribute their bit to the uK

WTFH wrote: »

That dies not mean they are not paying taxes in the uk.

Is it just me that finds it ironic that you complained to WTFH about not reading your full post, then proceed to do exactly the same to them :rotfl:

Jakg

I don't think it's for tax reasons - Dixons Retail is registered in the UK, despite being a multi-national company.

I think the reason is just that they've absorbed a lot of companies over the years, who probably have a lot of duplicated facilities (i.e. merchant card processing). They've been using a credit control centre in Brno for years on PC World Business accounts so it was probably only natural to use the same people for online orders...

Fosterdog

But they do pay all the taxes they need to as a UK retailer, they just happen to use a different company to process their payments. It is not a tax dodge in any way. Currys is part of the Dixons group which is originally a UK company but has branched out and has stores in other countries but brings the profits into the UK but it does leave them needing a way to process multi national payments easily and maybe the Czech Republic have a better banking system than we do for dealing with such things.

Hintza

I do hope you only ever buy British and none of that johnny foreigner stuff.

earthstorm

just look at how many UK service companies outsource their sales/services to other countries.

visidigi

was the fridge UK built too?

earthstorm

Do you purchase anything online where you pay using Paypal.

If as then do you know they process the payments in Luxembourg, but they have a UK office and pay UK taxes, just like the retailer who used PP to take their payments