I utterly reject this argument<p>&gt; 362 Facebook staff on an average salary of say £65,000 will contribute at least £7,230,696.60 in taxes and NI to HMRC. Let&#x27;s also not pretend that £65,000 is the average salary at Facebook UK, it&#x27;s likely much higher.<p>First of all, that&#x27;s Facebook employees paying tax. Not Facebook. That&#x27;s their money that they are taxed on and they pay it.<p>Secondly, no one is asking for Facebook to pay tax on nothing. They should pay it on profits. It was tax payers money that built the Great British Telecommunications Infrastructure that Facebook 100% depends on for it&#x27;s operations here.<p>&gt; If I had a choice between Facebook paying £4,327 in corporation tax but employing over 350 highly skilled individuals in the UK, or relocating to somewhere like Dublin due to aggressive taxation policies. I know what I would pick.<p>No one is going to give up all the money they can earn in a country that has one of the lowest corporation tax rates in the world. Facebook is not going to convince it&#x27;s key employees to leave Britain, uproot their families and go live in the desert or china. Any threat by a company to leave one of the strongest economies in the world is a pathetic bluff.