UFCW Members Call for Closing Tax Loophole and for Giant-Carlisle to Disclose Income Taxes Paid

Members of UFCW Local 1776, along with concerned consumers and activists from the Philadelphia area, rallied on Tax Day in front the Giant Food Store in West Chester, to call on Pennsylvania’s largest supermarket chain and one of the state’s largest employers, to disclose how much they pay in state income taxes to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

UFCW Local 1776 members

Members from UFCW Local 1776 and concerned customers rallied on Tax Day in front of the Giant Food store in West Chester, Pa.

The event was part of a statewide Tax Day push for tax fairness sponsored by the Coalition for Labor Engagement and Accountable Revenue (CLEAR), an alliance of labor organizations representing over 1.1 million hard working Pennsylvanians that are united to fi ght for essential services and critical investments in Pennsylvania’s state budget and beyond.

Most of the companies evade some taxes by shifting income earned in Pennsylvania to tax-haven states like Delaware.

In February, the non-profi t Keystone Research Center sent a letter to Pennsylvania’s 1,000 largest for-profi t employers asking them to disclose how much each pays in state income taxes. The ten largest multi-state corporations doing business in the state, including Giant Food Stores did not disclose their tax statements.

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Tesco’s plans to expand are scaled back

There’s a new story out today from USA Today on Ahold’s faltering U.S. expansion. As the article recounts,

British grocery chain Tesco, which predicted it would become one of the largest grocers in the U.S. when it started opening its first Fresh & Easy stores five years ago, announced a far less ambitious plan for its growth and profitability Wednesday.

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Tesco initially planned to have about 200 Fresh & Easy locations by 2009 but has continually revised down its projections in the last several years. Earlier this year, it announced plans to close 12 underperforming stores.

Tesco had also predicted Fresh & Easy would be profitable by early next year; it now says it will take about a year longer.

Click here to read the full story from USA Today.