Universities offer the opportunity to gain new knowledge, learn new skills, and to build the foundations for future careers. But these opportunities come at a cost – universities, perhaps often seeming like unflappable, unwavering institutions, […]
In our 2017 company report, we revealed that Nissan UK had received £800 million in corporate welfare from the UK government. The Nissan case shows a pattern of transnational corporations either getting the deal they […]
It is widely assumed that public services are organized and delivered for the sole benefit of citizens. The reality, however, is very different. The more we consider the role and function of different government departments […]
The news, reported by The Guardian in March, that Persimmon paid three executives a combined salary of £104m in 2017 highlights a key problem of UK corporate welfare practices — they can be exploited by individuals […]
Our newsletter for March 2018 is focused on government funding for the Industrial Strategy, new plans for taxing turnover of large online firms in the UK and EU, and recent events that featured Kevin Farnsworth of […]
On 7 March 2018, CWW Executive Director Kevin Farnsworth spoke about tax relief from a corporate welfare perspective and debated the merits of this practice with other panellists at a Chartered Institute of Tax event […]
Two recent stories published by two major media outlets in two different nations within four days help to capture a major challenge faced by governments today. On the 8th September, The Wall Street Journal reported […]
Many of those who voted to leave the EU would have been encouraged to do so in order to ‘take back control’ from Brussels. Few voted leave in order to starve public services of funding, […]
Capitalist economies depend on private business investment, and all governments in similar states compete to induce businesses to invest through various policy interventions. In so doing, they compete with other governments to retain current investors […]
The UK’s exit from the EU represents a tearing up of the informal contract that exists between multinationals and the UK government. Companies put their money into Britain based on cheap, tariff-free market access to […]
I am the person behind the second most-debated figure of the Labour leadership race – the £93bn corporate welfare bill. I write “debated”, but this is too generous to some of those who have passed judgment […]
Wednesday’s budget in some ways typifies the tensions between corporate welfare and social welfare. Tax credits are a good example of a provision that falls into the categories of both corporate welfare (in that they act as a wage subsidy for […]
The greatest myth of modern times is the suggestion that capitalism and corporations do better with less government. The global economic crisis has certainly put paid to this idea. But the massive emergency state bailouts […]
At Corporate Welfare Watch, it’s part of our mission to bring you searchable and easy-to-understand data that illustrate the volume and types of support that the UK government gives to private businesses. Now, in addition […]
On March 23, 2016, the government published the National Infrastructure Delivery Plan 2016-2021 which details in an 115-page report its intentions for supporting large-scale housing and regeneration, and investment in new local schools, hospitals, and […]
The Government gives the fossil-fuel industry nearly £6bn a year in subsidies, almost twice the financial support it provides to renewable-energy providers, according to new research. A study by the Overseas Development Institute think-tank challenges […]
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