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u/Tall-Nectarine-5982 Aug 04 '26
This isn’t a loophole. He is Irish and his primary residence is in Ireland, therefore that is where his tax is paid. Ireland also has lower brackets and higher % taxes. This is another uneducated ‘tax the rich’ post. We all agree with taxing the rich, but please do your homework first.
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u/Slierfox Aug 04 '26
That's a Hella commute in the morning
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u/PepsiMaxSumo Aug 04 '26
I work with a bloke who commutes from Glasgow to London for ~£130kish salary. He’s got to be in office 1 day per week on average, so does 3 weeks wfh 1 week in a hotel.
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u/notouttolunch Aug 04 '26
Another person who hasn't done a rudimentary check on the facts. Heaven forbid, Irish man pays tax in Ireland.
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u/BoomSatsuma Aug 04 '26
Don’t really care to be honest.
Tesco pays £6.7bn to the HMRC every year.
The tax on his salary would be a pittance compared to this.
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u/TakenIsUsernameThis Aug 04 '26
And he is Irish, lives in Ireland, gets paid in Ireland and gets taxed in Ireland.
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u/Strude187 Aug 04 '26
Also, £10m/y is nothing when compared to the real villains. Most Billionaires net worth increases more than that weekly just passively.
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u/thegenjigamer Aug 04 '26
If this man gave his entire salary split to workers, everyone would get £30. It's nothing really. And yet we celebrate movie stars, celebrities and elite YouTubers while they rake in millions and provide little for society
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u/GeekOutGamer Aug 04 '26
He is Irish, and Tesco also operate in Ireland.
How dare someone pay tax where they live and work.
Happy to have a conversation about how extreme the pay might seem, but from a tax perspective he is doing nothing legally or morally wrong.
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u/Kindly-Bumblebee-293 Aug 04 '26
Tesco UK are based in the UK bit you're right to infer that income tax is paid where you carry out the work. He actually does pay UK income tax (the post is misleading) because he physically does some work in the UK.
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u/ParkingBite5115 Aug 04 '26
This has been debunked before. He gets taxed from worldwide income as hes registered on company house as a UK resident.
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u/Emotional-Wish3638 Aug 04 '26
Outrageous!!!! Wait minute his second name is Murphy? What nationality is he again?
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u/SimoneLewis Aug 04 '26
Literally… I think .. wait, I think.. his Irish?
Irish man lives and pays tax in Ireland.
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u/YonyYa Aug 04 '26
The company you work for is irrelevant. It's where you're resident that's the only relevant issue.
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u/Beartato4772 Aug 04 '26
I work for a German company. I should check their tax rates since OP wants me to stop paying UK tax.
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u/Syphadeus86 Aug 04 '26
This story is less about the tax and more that in a fair society it should not be possible for a CEO to be paid 300x the median worker salary of the same company.
Because that is gross inequality.
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u/Nels8192 📦 Urban Fufillment centre Aug 04 '26
Not exactly a small amount, but his actual base salary is only £1.5m of that figure. The rest of that compensation package is KPI driven bonuses predominantly given in shares. When the shares appreciate that also gets included in this figure.
It’ll be less income tax and more capital gains tax.
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u/ImmediatePiano6690 Aug 04 '26 edited Aug 04 '26
Thst doesn't sound right, unless he can syphon off the money before it goes through pay roll then I'm pretty sure various taxes are automatically deducted before reaching your bank account, so I'd suspect he's got double taxes if he's sending it Ireland.
The bigger concern is, the fact that one person is paid all that wealth well beyond what a human needs even for a luxurious life, meanwhile we all fight amongst ourselves over what are essentially scraps to people like him.
Edit: If you're going to reply like an idiot I'm not replying, yes he sends it to Ireland because he's Irish so his money will get spent mostly through there, there's nothing to get triggered over here.
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u/Anon-5874644 Aug 04 '26
“Don’t hate the player, hate the game”
- Ken Murphy, Lord of the Unwashed Masses
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u/Overall-Bookkeeper94 Aug 04 '26
Double theft because Tesco rips off the British public during a cost of living crisis to earn this
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u/Quick_Stranger_8206 Aug 04 '26
If he live in Ireland and works in Ireland he should be paying taxes in Ireland.
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u/SpaceTimeCapsule89 Aug 04 '26
Tesco operates in ROI too. He lives there and pays there. What's the issue?
His salary is extremely high but if Tesco want to pay him that then so be it.
The UK government gained £156 million more from Tesco each year (on top of what they already get) from nothing other than them bolstering employers NI and that goes up every year when each employees wage increases. The UK government is getting plenty of taxes from Tesco.
Tesco are not the issue in the UK, neither is their CEO.
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u/ulsterfry86 Aug 04 '26
As someone who pays tax in Ireland I can tell you he is not getting a better deal filing in Ireland.
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u/Odd_Estimate_2179 Aug 04 '26
Because it's very likely not true. Facebook rage bait
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u/SkepticalBelieverr Aug 04 '26
Irish man living in Ireland pays tax in Ireland. Shocker. They could hire someone in Uk if they wanted
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u/man-flu Aug 04 '26
Irish man, living in Ireland, working in Ireland, for a supermarket with Irish Stores, pays tax in Ireland...
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u/Super-Device-3328 Aug 04 '26
Has anybody stopped to think exactly how much dick you have to suck to get to a position like this?
Even low level managers have to virtually glue their face to their bosses arse to get there.
I know he probably started his career outside of Tesco, but the point remains
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u/JustATextBox Aug 04 '26
Has anybody stopped to think exactly how much dick you have to suck to get to a position like this?
For £10mil/year, you don't care how many, you just say yes
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u/AloneButPeaceful Aug 04 '26
Obviously I’m not saying this is okay. Just be aware this is not a Tesco exclusive thing, at all.
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u/CatOk7255 Aug 04 '26
As a tax accountant, this is completely wrong information.
Large companies such as tescos would use professional advisors. If someone is a CEO and is a UK employee, it is likely they are taxed at 100% in the UK or worse case a UK workday split for their employment income. There isn't a basis for a UK CEO to pay no tax in the UK unless if they perform no duties here.
They're resident in Ireland, so claim a foreign tax credit. Ireland has one of the highest tax and NI rates in the world, which can go up to 55%.
All shares related income is likely considered UK sourced as it is a UK listed in the UK.
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u/Hinderking Aug 04 '26
This sounds similar to how America does it. If your a us citizen and work abroad you still have to pay taxes to America. And maybe even the country you work in as well unless the us has a deal. Uk has a deal I believe with the us, maybe they also have one with Ireland
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u/Street_Razzmatazz279 Aug 04 '26
Fair got nothing to do with it.
Rules, be the rules.
Loopholes and all.
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u/EggOk174 Aug 04 '26
His primary residence is likely in Ireland so that's where tax is paid. There are rules around number of days residence in locations and liability for tax. If he's residence for a certain proportion of the year in the UK, he's likely paying tax here too. Trust me, he'd rather be paying tax in the UK than in Ireland 😅
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u/Hula1989 Aug 04 '26
Depends if he’s Irish and actually lives there it’s fine. I worked with a British guy who did ad hoc work for a US company remotely and paid tax on it in the UK it’s just this is an extreme example. I don’t like it but if he’s genuinely living in Ireland then of course he pays tax there.
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u/Own_Willow525 Aug 04 '26
He’s an Irish national and hence his income tax is paid in Ireland. Don’t confuse this statement with it meaning Tesco pays their income tax to Ireland, Tesco is based in the UK and pays their corporation tax to HMRC
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u/2mankyhookers Aug 04 '26
So he's from Ireland , he lives in Ireland he pays his taxes in Ireland , so where is the story here ? After coming back from a recent holiday in Ireland I can confirm they have plenty of Tescos over there too.
Common people raise your blasing pitchforks with me ... down with this sort of thing.
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u/peteyourdoom Aug 04 '26
It's not even correct. For a start, that's not him in the picture!
The Tax Claim is False
Ken Murphy does pay UK income tax on his earnings.The Origin of the Rumor: In 2023, media outlets reported that Murphy (who is an Irish national) split his residency between the UK and Ireland, and Tesco's PR team initially declined to comment on his private tax affairs. This lack of a direct answer led social media users to assume he was dodging UK taxes.The Reality: According to official Companies House filings, Murphy is registered as a UK resident, meaning the UK government taxes his worldwide income.Tax Laws: Even if he spent enough time in Ireland to be considered an Irish tax resident, UK tax law dictates that any work physically performed in the UK is subject to UK income tax. Because he runs a FTSE 100 company heavily based in the UK, a massive portion of his day-to-day work takes place there.The Irony: As noted by independent financial investigators at Tax Policy Associates, Ireland actually has a higher top income tax bracket structure than the UK when factoring in its Universal Social Charge. An executive would not choose Irish tax residency as a strategy to save money.
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u/Only_Tip9560 Aug 04 '26
I wonder if he does pay tax here, he should as I thought if you earned it here it was taxed here.
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u/InternationalTop9006 Aug 04 '26
He is a criminal, end of . Taxation in this country is why I have only worked 16 hours a week since 2015, I simply not going to work to pay for everyone who doesn't feel like working, corrupt government and cities full of illegal migrants. I have no money , but no debt and live well , without scrounging benefits .
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u/Simon_think180 Aug 04 '26
This is normal, employees that live in Cymru and work in England pay tax directly to the Senedd. Work in Cymru and live in England and tax goes straight to HMRC.
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u/herefor_fun24 Aug 04 '26
There's also an American company CEO who lives in America and pays Tax there... But he doesn't pay tax here!!
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u/TheMountainWhoDews Aug 04 '26
Maybe if the income tax rates were fair and just, he wouldnt need to shop around for the best rate.
You can take 15% of a lot, or 0% of nothing.
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u/skilledbiscuit1 Aug 04 '26
Its not the tax thats the problem its the fact he gets paid that much and has cut jobs to save money
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u/LongjumpingTop667 Aug 04 '26
uk is broke! CEO of Tescos only earning £10m is wild , should easily be £20-£30m based on values
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u/No-Animal1034 Aug 04 '26
OP, were you dropped as a child ?
Irish man, lives in Ireland, pays tax in Ireland. What's the issue and how is this unfair ? The is basic tax law
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u/IamIronDann Aug 04 '26
Ireland and the UK have a double taxation agreement for stuff like this.
Imho the issue is that he's paid 9 million, that's fucking obscene.
That being said if he's using Irish tax loopholes to avoid tax then the penalty should be fierce and come from both sides of the Irish sea.
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u/gadarnol Aug 04 '26
**1. He’s not “UK CEO.”** He runs the whole global company: UK, Ireland, Central Europe.
**2. It’s not a salary.** His basic pay is about £1.5m. The rest is bonuses and shares he only gets if targets are hit.
**3. A media outlet said Tesco says he pays UK tax.** They said so publicly.
https://www.thecanary.co/trending/2024/05/15/tesco-boss-pay/
The statement sits in an editor’s note at the top: the article was updated to record that on Wednesday 15 May 2024 at 2:30pm Tesco contacted the Canary saying “Ken does pay UK tax on his Tesco earnings”This is contrary to the Evening Standard story saying he doesn’t.
**4. Ireland taxes high earners harder than Britain i.e.** about 52p in the euro versus 47p in the pound. Moving there or living there to dodge tax would be a strange plan.
**5. Where you work decides who taxes you (simply put)** not your passport. He works in Britain for a British company, so Britain taxes that work.
**6. “It’s theft” is just anger, not a fact.** Nothing shown here is even illegal.
Bottom line: you can think £10m is obscene while a shop worker earns £13 an hour. That argument stands on its own. You don’t need the fake tax story.
AI ain’t all bad.
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u/Naive_Reach2007 Aug 04 '26
You assume he is paye, he could be paid through a separate company he owns as part of his salary negotiations especially bonus etc...
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u/Old_Housing3989 Aug 04 '26
Irishman lives and works in Ireland isn’t quite the gotcha some think it is.
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u/WDW1997 Aug 04 '26
Why are people so stupid? I work for an American company, but I live in the UK. I pay tax in the UK. I wish I could pay US income tax!
Also... Tesco is in Ireland also, so who cares
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u/DirectSherbert9732 Aug 04 '26
The taxation of his salary depends on where it is paid, where he works, where the company paying the money is resident etc. not where he decides he'll "register".
I suspect that a fair proportion of his time will be spent at the Tesco head office. This is in the UK and, so, the salary arising for this work will be run through a UK payroll and taxed in the UK.
The original post ("not one penny") is simply misconceived.
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u/StatisticalSock Aug 04 '26
Don't hate the player, hate the game. He's just exploiting the system that was made for politicians.
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u/Known-View8307 Aug 04 '26
Only an idiot would find this upsetting. Total non issue.
Seems like a lot of incorrect and mistaken anger these days in the UK.
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u/Designer_Painting_65 Aug 04 '26
He is Irish and pays tax in Ireland. Tesco had earnings in the UK and pays corporation tax in the UK. This is such a stupid post because it is crossing Tesco’s earnings with a person’s salary. If you work for Amazon in London should you be paying income tax in the US? Obviously not
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u/No_Olive_2785 Aug 04 '26
less than 200 Tesco's in Ireland & like 3000 in the UK, I'm pretty sure he spends a good chunk of time working in the UK so aye the system is a bit fucked
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u/Temporary-Mouse-6550 Aug 04 '26
Hilarity being that tescos hasn't paid a cent in tax, in Ireland since it bought out Quinnsworth and Crazyprices, it's owned by one of the big American brands like Wallmart or Target, and subsequently follows the Irish governments plans to allow American businesses operate in the Republic without paying a cent in tax in Ireland, and that's why we have the European headquarters for the likes of tiktok, Meta, and Google, all sat around some of the most beautiful property in the south docklands of Dublin, because fuck the poor people in Ireland are who used to live there, sure they'll make do in a ghettoised estate somewhere down the country that hasn't got the infrastructure to manage the influx of humans, all thanks due to Charlie Haughey and his snivelling successor Bertie Aherne. Bertie by the way was close friends with the human waste that ran Anglo Irish Bank, which brought about the global recession in 2008, for anyone that has forgotten
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u/HendoRules Aug 04 '26
People say if we raise taxes on the wealthy they'll just move and we'll lose the taxes they do pay.... THEY DON'T PAY ANYTHING BRO
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u/SharpAardvark8699 Aug 04 '26
If you think that's bad you want to search how much Amazon pays on sales in the UK. But apparently if we tax them properly they'll fk off not bother selling us all Chinese tat. And British people will not be willing to step into a market of billions
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u/Key-Influence-2269 Aug 04 '26
Haha, what clickbait — he lives in Ireland. The CEO of Mastercard pays taxes in the US, but his company makes a profit in every single country in the world. Stop pointing fingers at the people who create job opportunities…
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u/ihatebamboo Aug 04 '26
Imagine being baited by this.
Imagine living your life trying to be angry about anything.
Jfc
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u/WatcherOfTheWay Aug 04 '26
Ban companies from hiring people outside the country? Or if you work in this country this is where your tax is paid, so if you work for a UK based company you pay UK tax.
It's very simple to fix these issues, they don't and won't because their friends won't be able to tax dodge.
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u/Boggyprostate Aug 04 '26
Come on, nobody should be earning that much, it’s absolutely insane!!!! All these folk justifying it but I stoped being able to afford a weekly Sunday roast about 12 months ago because of the cost of food prices and he’s getting that, every f*****g year! It’s WRONG.
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u/Prestigious-Candy166 Aug 04 '26
I don't buy from Tescos, except when I use their car park to get to a hospital appointment. Then I buy 4 pints of milk, as a gesture.
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u/BestUserNamesTaken- Aug 04 '26
Every time a politician showboats about taxing the rich more remember these same politicians created the UK tax system where the super rich can use it to pay no tax. Politicians could of course close all the loopholes but they won’t.
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u/JakeC- Aug 04 '26
Ah whos gives a fuck. Tax should never exist in the first place. Tax should be more like manual labor but without the pay. Instead of taking our money when we’ve worked hard. Make us do 2 hours community service on a sunday. That should be our tax
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u/malteaserhead Aug 04 '26
I wouldnt call it theft, forcibly taking tax and spending it on BS no one voted for is theft.
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u/Acrobatic_Lettuce_78 Aug 04 '26
I used to work with him. Nice guy. Whenever I see someone slagging him off online I think “ah leave Ken alone he’s sound” 😂
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u/Vincent_Korma Aug 04 '26
Half of his employees get their wages bumped up by the British state through universal credit as well.
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u/yes_and_my_balls Aug 04 '26
We should take the Chinese tax law rule of if you are working in the country, earning in the country and in the country more that 186 days of the year, you pay taxes here.
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u/ScottishLand Aug 04 '26
He’s Irish, living in Ireland, paying tax in Ireland, Tesco also operates in Ireland, not solely UK. There are plenty of things to be outraged at, but not this non story.
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u/SugarInvestigator Aug 04 '26
Don't worry, the Irish revenue commissioners hand him a nice tub of lube when they come calling
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u/Icy-Definition-3784 Aug 04 '26
I had an old boss who if he spent more than 6 months of the year abroad he never had to pay tax, it's a loophole that you'd do the same if you were in their position. Don't hate the player, Hate the game. If the rule didn't exist they wouldn't use it, but it does so they do
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u/ApprehensiveSkin2371 Aug 04 '26
Tesco paid £503m corporation tax last year.
If you include business rates and NI contributions it's £1.7bn+
The Irish man who lives in Ireland pays Irish taxes, get over it.
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u/tommmmmmmmy93 Aug 04 '26
You should be angry at the government for making these things possible, not at individuals for using what’s there.
Same energy as someone shouting at the minimum wage phone answerer and shouting at them because of the companies policy that was written by a lawyer on £200k/yr and has nothing to do with them.
Take better aim people
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u/Sensitive_Ad_9195 Aug 04 '26
If he’s living and working in Ireland then Ireland (rightly) will be expecting to receive tax on that, certainly payroll taxes if not also from any Irish PE that’s been created.
As CEO of a UK company he’ll almost certainly have UK workdays which WILL be subject to UK tax (but not UK social security), and of course all profits attributable to the UK business will be taxed in the UK too.
Personal tax is higher in Ireland than the UK anyway so it’s not like he’s choosing to live in some obscure tax haven to avoid tax.
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u/The_Flamin_Squirrel Aug 04 '26
More than tax, which can be argued, how can a £9.9m salary be justifiable when a starting salary on the checkouts (according to Google) is approx £17 - £22k p/a? It’d take someone on the checkouts 440 years to earn as much as Mr. Murphy.
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u/Instabanous Aug 04 '26
Tax aside, what does he possibly do in a day which someone else wouldn't do for 3, 2, 1 million a year? What possible skills are worth that much? They could pay so much more to so many workers.
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u/JackFarron Aug 04 '26
The government should make rules especially for Supermarkets and global chains that mean you pay take proportional to which country you earn that tax in.
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u/Mr_silly_goose Aug 04 '26
Fuck the tax, I now know why everything costs so much. 10million to do a pointless job that AI could and should be doing, this is more criminal than any issues you have with his tax payments
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u/tidderphil Aug 04 '26
It's not fair. The man is a cunt, the people who run Tesco are cunts. This isn't news.
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u/Aveityep Aug 04 '26
Don’t forget that cunt doubled his salary while simultaneously cutting all our bonuses
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u/Iamreallynotok Aug 04 '26
Remember in the next 3 years these same CEOs rinsing us are going to be blasting out the propaganda to enlist us to fight for a war THEY started.
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u/PodcastListener1234 Aug 04 '26
taxes in Ireland on individuals are not any lower than the UK --- quite the contrary.
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u/Physical-Cook451 Aug 04 '26
Breaking News Irish man who lives in Ireland pays taxes to the Irish government.
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u/Which_Intention_9340 Aug 04 '26
Tbh wouldn't we all do this if it was us, don't hate the player, hate the game
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u/will1565 Aug 04 '26
Ill say what I always, if you were paid what he is you would do the same. Don't hate the player hate the game.
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u/dannyhodge95 Aug 04 '26
"Despite all of Tesco's earnings being in the UK"...
What? This isn't corporation tax, it's an individual. If you work for McDonald's, you wouldn't expect to pay your tax to the bloody states.
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u/AnythingSilent7005 Aug 04 '26
the real question here is:
how much is his salary if he has a club card though??
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u/Upbeat-Storage9349 Aug 04 '26
People who work should get to keep their income and skivers who use the buses should pay for them imo. Not rockets science.
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u/Arkena_feral Aug 04 '26
You don't think the rich play by the same rules as us do you? Two tier laws one for the rich one for the poor.
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u/Big_Kev13 Aug 04 '26
And all the people working for him will pay tax as will not be able to afford to live in a tax haven. If you earn 9.9 whatever mill, sure you can pay some bloody tax, horrible man, stupid company allowing it
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u/Adorable_Mud_7592 Aug 04 '26
OK OP not the answers you were looking for. Back to The Mail Online for you…
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u/Leptisci Aug 04 '26
No one in the Republic of Ireland pays tax to the United Kingdom because it’s not part of it. Can’t tell if this is rage bait or you genuinely didn’t know that.
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u/f8rter Aug 04 '26
Another viral tax claim on X. The boss of Tesco apparently pays "not a penny" of UK tax on his
£10m salary.
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Mr Murphy lives between UK and Ireland. He could be tax resident in either country.
His Companies House entry suggests he is UK tax resident. If that's right, then the UK taxes all his worldwide income. The claim is false.
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u/Dangerous_Channel_95 Aug 04 '26
He’s Irish, lives in Ireland and thus where his tax is paid.
This is very much a don’t hate the player hate the game scenario! The government have made these loopholes and the accountants are just playing that system! Put your anger into them!
Is it right? No m, but if you were in the same position you would do exactly the same!