...Now owned by...SABMiller, Accra Brewery has become a textbook example of the techniques used by big business to avoid corporate income taxes. It has paid no income tax in the past two years, but transferred millions of pounds to sister companies in tax havens...ActionAid’s investigation used published financial information, interviews with government officials and undercover research to find out how SABMiller avoids tax across Africa and India. The cost to the governments affected may be as much as £20 million per year...Ghanaian women are 70 times more likely to die in childbirth than those in Britain, and children are 13 times more likely to die before the age of five. One third of the country’s population is infected with malaria each year. There is much Ghana could do with more tax revenue...[Also re: Bevman Services AG, Castle, Grolsch, Mubex, Peroni Nastro Azzurro, SABMiller Breweries Ltd, SKOL Breweries Ltd, Stone Lager]