Starbucks pays just £5m UK corporation tax on £95m gross profit

The UK arm of Starbucks has made cumulative losses after tax of more than £100m between 2010 and 2021. Photograph: Anthony Harvey/Rex/Shutterstock

Starbucks paid just £5.4m in UK corporation tax last year despite making a gross profit of £95m.

The company, which has faced years of heated criticism for paying very little tax in the UK, paid out £26.5m in royalty payments, almost five times as much the UK tax it paid, according to accounts filed at Companies House.