Friday 17 May 2013

MP to Google: 'you do do evil' when it comes to tax



Pressure is mounting on web giants Amazon and Google as a series of whistleblowers have put a question mark over their UK tax arrangements.


Both companies have been accused of disguising the full extent of their UK-based activities in order to avoid paying tax.


At a Public Accounts Committee hearing on 16 May, chairperson Margaret Hodges accused Google of "deliberately manipulating the reality of their business" and claimed to have whistleblower evidence that UK Google staff had sold advertising and invoiced UK-based customers.


By: Kadhim Shubber, Edited by: Olivia Solon


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via Wired.co.uk



http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-05/17/google-amazon-tax

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