{"id":20856,"date":"2013-05-19T11:21:10","date_gmt":"2013-05-19T10:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=20856"},"modified":"2013-05-19T11:21:10","modified_gmt":"2013-05-19T10:21:10","slug":"is-the-google-edifice-cracking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2013\/05\/19\/is-the-google-edifice-cracking\/","title":{"rendered":"Is the Google edifice cracking?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesundaytimes.co.uk\/sto\/news\/uk_news\/National\/article1261720.ece\" target=\"_blank\">Sunday Times reports this morning that<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Barney Jones, 34, who worked for the internet search giant between 2002 and 2006, has lifted the lid on an elaborate structure which diverts British profits through Ireland to the Bermuda tax haven.<\/p>\n<p>Although Google\u2019s London sales staff would negotiate and sign contracts with British customers, and cash was paid into a UK bank account, deals were technically booked through its Dublin office to minimise its liabilities here. Jones, a devout Christian and father of four, is ready to hand over a cache of more than 100,000 emails and documents to HM Revenue &amp; Customs (HMRC), detailing the \u201cconcocted scheme\u201d.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Much more follows.<\/p>\n<p>The problem with a lot of tax planning that looks too\u00a0artificial\u00a0to be true is that it's almost\u00a0impossible\u00a0to\u00a0deliver\u00a0in\u00a0practice. Will that be the undoing of Google?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sunday Times reports this morning that: Barney Jones, 34, who worked for the internet search giant between 2002 and 2006, has lifted the lid<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2013\/05\/19\/is-the-google-edifice-cracking\/\"><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-20856","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\/20856","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=20856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20856\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}