Palantir’s weird tax trick — paying the staff

Source: Adam Smith Institute
by Tim Worstall

“Apparently: ‘Palantir paid just £2m corporation tax in UK in 2024 despite lucrative public sector contracts.’ That someone tries to measure how useful the producer of something is by their tax payments – rather than the value of their output – is deeply weird in itself. … Palantir pays its staff well, partly in shares. That’s it, that’s the one weird trick. They pay the staff well. British political discourse is so perverted that this is seen as a problem.” (08/06/26)

https://www.adamsmith.org/blog/palantirs-weird-tax-trick-paying-the-staff