Do you remember that Starbucks said they’d pay £20 million if tax voluntarily last year? Well according to Laura Kuennsberg at ITV they haven’t quite got round
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I have posted twice already on the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) hearing on Google today, once to anticipate it, and again to summarise some details
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I wrote this morning about the issues I expected to arise during this mornings Public Accounts Committee hearing on Google. The hearing has just finished as I
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As the Guardian note: The former head of Revenue and Customs (HMRC) took into account potential embarrassment to George Osborne when letting off Goldman Sachs from paying
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  More details here. And yes, I am in it.

I have been told the following this morning by a music distributor: I do £millions of sales to amazon, all buying & marketing negotiated and run through
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It’s often argued that tax havens cause no harm and just “keep the wheels of trade moving”. That’s not true. As Christian Aid note in a new
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The Google PAC hearing starts at 9.45am Witnesses: Matt Brittin, Vice President, Sale and Operations, Northern and Central Europe, Google, and John Dixon, Head of
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The debate about the next election seems to be focussing on Europe, immigration, debt, deficit, cuts, welfare and the like. They may be important. But
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