Tax avoidance protesters needed hospital treatment today after police used CS spray to break up a demonstration on Oxford Street in central London.

Protester washing eyes
A man washes his eyes after police used CS gas on tax protesters in London. Photograph: Tim Mitchell/PA


Tax avoidance protesters needed hospital treatment today after police used CS spray to break up a demonstration on Oxford Street in central London.

Hundreds of people staged peaceful sit-ins at high street stores around the country as part of the latest UK Uncut day of action, designed to highlight companies it says are avoiding millions of pounds in tax.

In London protesters had successfully closed down Boots in Oxford Street – one of the companies campaigners accuse of tax avoidance – when police tried to arrest a woman for pushing a leaflet through the store's doors. Other demonstrators tried to stop the arrest and at least one police officer used CS spray, which hospitalised three people.

Jed Weightman, one of those who went to hospital, said protesters had joined hands to try and prevent the arrest.

"One police officer sprayed towards us and because I was tall I got a lot of it in my face," he said. "My eyes were streaming and I couldn't see anything."

Earlier this week Sir Hugh Orde, president of the Association of Chief Police Officers, said police could adopt more extreme tactics to counter the growing wave of protests, and hinted that UK Uncut demonstrators could face criminal and civil charges if they invaded shops during today's protests.

Activists reacted angrily to yesterday's events, claiming the police had been "heavy handed and disproportionate."


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It  is the way the tax laws are made or worded how Companies can use their profits as expansion & other expenses and thus reduce their taxable income..  Woolworths Australia work on this system, thus building or leasing from an associate company & opening a new store in a district where private and/or independent companies are operating successfully.  Stores have to be council approved &  development should be accessed by number of residents in the area to support the existing business and the new one..  Often the established ones have been forced to either downgrade or close.

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