Starbucks to face store protests

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Coffee chain Starbucks was braced for protests today over its tax arrangements despite announcing changes to its payments.

The US-owned giant said it expects to pay around £10 million in UK corporation tax for each of the next two years, following the revelation that it paid just £8.6 million in 14 years of trading in Britain and nothing in the last three years.