{"id":32619,"date":"2016-03-07T06:02:40","date_gmt":"2016-03-07T06:02:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=32619"},"modified":"2016-03-07T06:03:06","modified_gmt":"2016-03-07T06:03:06","slug":"google-regrets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2016\/03\/07\/google-regrets\/","title":{"rendered":"Google regrets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am grateful to US CPA Jeffery Kadet for sending me one set of Google's 2013 Ireland accounts, in which he draw attention to this statement:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2016\/03\/07\/google-regrets\/screen-shot-2016-03-06-at-16-58-00\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-32621\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-32621\" src=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Screen-Shot-2016-03-06-at-16.58.00-550x146.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2016-03-06 at 16.58.00\" width=\"550\" height=\"146\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Screen-Shot-2016-03-06-at-16.58.00-550x146.png 550w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Screen-Shot-2016-03-06-at-16.58.00-300x80.png 300w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Screen-Shot-2016-03-06-at-16.58.00-800x213.png 800w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Screen-Shot-2016-03-06-at-16.58.00-200x53.png 200w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Screen-Shot-2016-03-06-at-16.58.00.png 1256w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>To put it another way, accounting standards might ask for this geographic data but Google regrets that complying might reveal a truth it would rather not discuss.<\/p>\n<p>No wonder that when in the US recently I mentioned to a former Big 4 partner that I created country-by-country reporting he replied, I think only partly in jest, that he recommended I keep that quiet if I wanted to get out again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am grateful to US CPA Jeffery Kadet for sending me one set of Google&#8217;s 2013 Ireland accounts, in which he draw attention to this<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2016\/03\/07\/google-regrets\/\"><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":[67,81,79,5,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accountancy","category-auditing","category-country-by-country","category-ireland","category-tax-avoidance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32619","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=32619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32619\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}