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Eric Schmidt will not be grilled on corporate taxes when he visits No 10 but former executive says he has 100,000 emails showing how search giant has ‘cheated’ UK taxpayers

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Google 'avoids billions in taxes via Bermuda'

Type “Bermuda tax” into Google and the search engine’s high-tech algorithm completes the phrase with a number of suggestions, including, “haven”.

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Coffee giant 'close to deal over UK tax payments'

The American coffee chain Starbucks is understood to be close to a deal with Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs that could see it pay between £5m and £10m in corporation tax this year.

Margaret Hodge stepped up her campaign against tax avoidance, suggesting that the government contracts should not be given to accountancy firms that help tax avoiders

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Bing for a day: my fruitless attempt to avoid using a Google product

Bing for a day: my fruitless attempt to avoid using a Google product

It is possible I've visited Starbucks more since its tax affairs became news, but those who have boycotted the chain (which has now agreed to review its practices because of "consumer pressure", the Treasury said today) need not look far for a caffeine fix. Is there really much to separate, say, a Starbucks latte and one from the Costa over the road?

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Starbucks: The US coffee company has paid £8m in tax on £3bn in sales during 14 years in the UK

Starbucks chief Troy Alstead faces grilling on tax

Starbucks chief Troy Alstead was today told his claims that the coffee chain continually made a loss in Britain “just doesn't ring true”.

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UK Sale: £1.2bn... UK Tax: £0

Sketch: Getting to the bottom of Starbucks' tax arrangements is a study in exasperation

If nothing else the questioning of the country’s top taxperson was a study in exasperation today. Understandably, the Commons Public Accounts Committee was eager, desperate even, to find out from Lin Homer, HMRC’s chief executive, how it was that Starbucks managed to pay a trifling £8.6million in corporation tax on UK sales of - wait for it - £398million.

Internet search firm Google has been ordered to look again at its controversial privacy policy by European Union regulators after it was criticised over its collection of internet users' personal information, according to reports.

Cash-strapped European news websites ask governments to step in and force Google to pay for story links

European news organisations bleeding money and readers are trying to avoid extinction by asking governments in France, Germany and Italy to step in and charge Google for links to stories the internet search giant has always used for free.

George Clooney joins Barack Obama to discuss the situation in Darfur, April 2006

George Clooney, Lady Gaga, Jay-Z: how much do celebrity political endorsements matter?

The wonks over at the Daily Beast have produced a fascinating quantified rundown of how much celebrity supporters are contributing to this Presidential race, which is close to neck-a-neck as polling day approaches.

Google told to pay victim for criminal results

Google was yesterday found liable for damages by a jury in Australia after a man complained that the website's search results had harmed his reputation by wrongly linking him to Melbourne gang crime.

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