Disney pockets record £61m of UK taxpayer cash to make Deadpool Vs Wolverine

Yes this is why the uk is attractive to movie studios we offer big tax incentives

And in return they employ hundreds in the UK and help to prop up our arts industry.

>Studios filming in the UK get a cash reimbursement of up to 25.5% of the money they spend there with a total of £6.4bn paid out by HMRC since 2007.

So this record taxpayer cash is a quarter of the amount of money spent by Disney in the UK in this project? That seems a significant factor.

So Disney is an American film company that made a £3bn operating profit in 2024, yet the U.K. government sees for to throw £60m… All while bashing disabled benefits claimants and recipients and repeatedly seeking to slash disability benefits. Oh, and failing to pursue and demand that very wealthy and rich people pay their fair share of taxes. Where is the major clampdown on very wealthy and rich people evading paying their taxes? Where is the government pursuing major corporations that make huge profits but avoid taxes in the country?
The real scandal is *Corporate Welfare*…. Huge taxpayer subsidies being handed to already hugely profit making corporations that all to often provide low paid, insecure work… And or make considerable numbers of workers redundant, dumping cost on to the taxpayers through increased benefits claims, and bailouts for devalued staff pension funds. The taxpayer once again picking up the bill….

What’s that? Like 1% of what the Tory thieves spent on unused PPE.

My only criticism is that a lot of these movies are filmed on green screen and don’t showcase the UK as much. The Harry Potter inspired areas in edinburgh and similar places do great for tourism so it’d be nice to get more of that on show.

Who promoted this story – oh it’s the Tax Payers Alliance….

To quote from the wiki:

The group was founded by political strategist [Matthew Elliott](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Elliott_(political_strategist)), who founded Eurosceptic think tank [Business for Britain](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_for_Britain)[^([7])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TaxPayers%27_Alliance#cite_note-7) as well as [Conservative Friends of Russia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservative_Friends_of_Russia), [Big Brother Watch](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Brother_Watch) and the [NOtoAV](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NOtoAV) campaign during the [2011 Alternative Vote referendum](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_United_Kingdom_Alternative_Vote_referendum). In 2015, Elliot was appointed chief executive of the [Vote Leave](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vote_Leave) campaign to promote a [British withdrawal from the European Union](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brexit).[^([8])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TaxPayers%27_Alliance#cite_note-8)

Nuff said

So lower taxes on businesses does work? Someone needs to tell Reeves that.