{"id":18975,"date":"2013-01-18T06:41:33","date_gmt":"2013-01-18T06:41:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=18975"},"modified":"2013-01-18T06:41:33","modified_gmt":"2013-01-18T06:41:33","slug":"if-google-has-a-1bn-uk-hq-will-it-pay-any-more-tax-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2013\/01\/18\/if-google-has-a-1bn-uk-hq-will-it-pay-any-more-tax-here\/","title":{"rendered":"If Google has a \u00c2\u00a31bn UK HQ will it pay any more tax here?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/0\/789f7cd6-60d2-11e2-a31a-00144feab49a.html#axzz2IDqxyGiB\" target=\"_blank\">FT reports this morning<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Google\u00a0has completed a \u00a31bn deal to build a new UK headquarters on 2.4 acres of disused land behind King\u2019s Cross Station,\u00a0underlining the global technology industry\u2019s commitment to London.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So, Google is <span style=\"font-size: 13px;\">building a fancy new HQ here. \u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 13px;\">But \u00a0does that mean it will be making any sales here in future when they're all recorded in\u00a0Ireland<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 13px;\">\u00a0right now?\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 13px;\">And does that mean that they might pay tax in the UK on all the profits arising here? Or is it really the case that this is just a way of getting rid of part of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2012-12-10\/google-revenues-sheltered-in-no-tax-bermuda-soar-to-10-billion.html\" target=\"_blank\">the near $10 billion they put into Bermuda in 2011<\/a>?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>My bet is\u00a0on the latter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The FT reports this morning: Google\u00a0has completed a \u00a31bn deal to build a new UK headquarters on 2.4 acres of disused land behind King\u2019s Cross<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2013\/01\/18\/if-google-has-a-1bn-uk-hq-will-it-pay-any-more-tax-here\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tax-avoidance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18975\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}