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Palantir paid just £2.1m UK corporation tax in 2024

financeAug 5, 2026261,112

Palantir paid just £2.1m in UK corporation tax in 2024 despite declaring about £247m of UK revenue and just over £25m of UK profit, giving an effective UK tax rate of just over 8%, the Centre for International Corporate Tax Accountability and Research found. The report also calculates Palantir’s global effective tax rate at 1.4%, and says the company paid nothing in US federal tax and about $2.5m in US state taxes in 2024. Palantir is the UK’s biggest market outside the US, with roughly 750 non-US staff and an estimated £670m in government contracts as of 2026, including a three-year £240m MoD deal awarded last December without a competitive tender. Researchers say a pattern of transfer pricing shifts revenues and profits from European contracts to the US parent, noting that 26% of Palantir’s customers are outside the US while only 4% of revenue is booked abroad, and that the company disclosed £159m of UK revenues in company filings versus £247m in stock market filings. Unison general secretary Andrea Egan called for changes to systems that she said enable large-scale tax avoidance and criticised ministers for awarding public-service contracts to firms that, she said, are “starving” public coffers. A Palantir spokesperson said the company complies with the tax regimes where it operates and that criticism of its transfer pricing is “simply not credible.”

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