Tesco calls for Amazon and other online sellers to be hit with new tax
Real-world retailers face a huge tax bill from April
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Small shopkeepers have condemned lockdown unfairness which means they must close while major chains have customers queuing out on to the street.
Household names are taking advantage of loopholes to continue trading, while at the same time benefitting from the cancellation of business rates worth billions of pounds.
It comes after official data revealed retail sales plummeted by the largest amount since records began as the coronavirus pandemic paralysed the shopping sector.
In theory, only stores supplying essential products, such as food, home maintenance, health and pet care, should be open during the third lockdown.
However, a raft of general merchandise and homeware chains, such as Poundland, Wilko, B&M, Robert Dyas, Home Bargains, and The Range together with garden centres are trading.
Netflix paid just £3.2m in corporation tax on £13.2m profits in 2019 after ploughing hundreds of millions from its £1bn UK revenues into shows like The Crown and new talent Prince Harry and Meghan- while lockdown fuels 2020 surge in new subscribers
The £3.2m corporation tax bill is still the most it has ever paid since 2012
Netflix sends its sales out of the UK so it can be taxed at lower rate in Holland
Profits also offset by the hundreds of millions spent on productions and talent
Streaming giant branded greedy by bumping up prices during third lockdown
Nicola Sturgeon covid update RECAP: Hospital admissions quite a bit above first wave peak
All the latest on Scotland s fight against coronavirus ahead of this afternoon s daily briefing.
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Hospital admissions have seen another steep rise today, with 1,664 people now in hospital with coronavirus - an overnight increase of 126.
Speaking at today s daily briefing, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon confirmed that the figure was now quite a bit above the peak of the first wave in April .
It comes amid growing fears and warnings of the NHS becoming overwhelmed due to the huge influx in covid patients.