Facebook paid just £28m tax after record £1.6bn revenues in UK

Profits on social media app surged by more than 50% to 97m in latest tax year

Facebook's UK operations paid 28m in corporation tax last year despite achieving a record 1.6bn in British sales.

The social media company's latest UK accounts show that gross income from advertisers rose almost 30% last year to 1.65bn, and pretax profits surged by more than 50% from 63m to 97m.