Sir Philip Green's £6 Million Birthday Bash

Party people: Philp Green with two of his party guests, Kate Moss and Gwyneth Paltrow.
Photograph: Getty Images/Rex Features/Guardian montage

Guardian: "It's budget week, so what better time for billionaire Sir Philip Green to fly 150 celebrity guests to Mexico for a wildly extravagant party?  ...Sir Philip's wife Tina instructed the 150 guests to turn up with their passports and warm-weather clothes to Luton airport last Tuesday, where they were loaded into private jets and whisked off to a swanky beach resort in Cancun, hired by Phil in its entirety.... Naturally, what the Greens do with their money is nothing to do with us – indeed, it's way above the paygrade of the chancellor, what with 92% of Philip's Arcadia Group being in Tina's name, and her being resident in Monaco." More at: http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/lostinshowbiz/2012/mar/22/guests-philip-green-6m-party?INTCMP=SRCH

Wikipedia: "Green, the Arcadia retail group tycoon, became the focus of anger over the program of government cuts that campaigners said could be avoided if tax dodging was stamped out, bringing in some £25bn a year to the public purse and reducing the national deficit. Taveta Investments, the company used to acquire Arcadia in 2002, is in the name of Green's wife, Tina Green, a Monaco resident, avoiding £285 million in tax that would be payable if a UK resident owned the company." More info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Green

NB: The Arcadia retail group includes UK high street stores such as BHS, Top Shop, Dorothy Perkins, Miss Selfridge.

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Philip & Tina Green at 2011 Monaco Royal Wedding

And this is how the Daily Mail covered the story (with some pretty revealing photos):

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2116967/Sir-Philip-Greens-60th-birthday-Music-Stevie-Wonder-50-burgers.html

Here's what UK Uncut have to say about Sir Philip's activities and tax avoidance:

http://www.ukuncut.org.uk/targets/3