Huge profits but oil giant admits to paying zero tax In North Sea

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BP has announced it made bumper profits of £9.5billion in 2021.

It caps off a year in which a number of oil giants made billions of pounds off the back of large rises in oil and gas prices.

But exclusive research for this programme, given by the campaign group Uplift, has revealed that BP’s north sea oil operations have paid zero tax for five years.

In fact, they’ve actually received money from the taxpayer.

In 2019, they had a negative tax rate of minus 54%.

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BP plc (formerly The British Petroleum Company plc and BP Amoco plc) is a British multinational oil and gas company headquartered in London, England. It is one of the world’s seven oil and gas “supermajors”.

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BP’s origins date back to the founding of the Anglo-Persian Oil Company in 1908, established as a subsidiary of Burmah Oil Company to exploit oil discoveries in Iran. In 1935, it became the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company and in 1954, adopted the name British Petroleum.

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