TAX FRAUDSTERS ASTRAZENECA HAVE TO PAY BACK MILLIONS

Tuesday, 23rd February

AstraZeneca have just added another black mark to their long list - Suppressing test data, believing that marketing and profit are more important than human heath, over charging doctors for their drugs, causing 10s of thousands of side effects, torturing animals at the worst/most exposed laboratory in the world - HLS and causing great suffering to animals and humans, the list just goes on and on...

From the Telegraph:

One of Britain's biggest companies has agreed to pay HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) £505m to settle a long-running tax dispute.

By Graham Ruddick, City Reporter (Pharmaceuticals)
Published: 8:06AM GMT 23 Feb 2010

AstraZeneca, the pharmaceutical group, will make the payments after claims made by HMRC over the controversial issue of transfer pricing.

The settlement relates to the 15-year period from 1996 to end of this year.

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