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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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
Tuesday 11 December 2012
Type “Bermuda tax” into Google and the search engine’s high-tech algorithm completes the phrase with a number of suggestions, including, “haven”.
Friday 07 December 2012
The Revenue needs to toughen up in its dealings with large corporations
Thursday 06 December 2012
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.
Wednesday 05 December 2012
Watchdog urges ban on Government contracts for accountants who assist tax evasion
Monday 03 December 2012
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?
Friday 30 November 2012
Today is Scotland's national day, otherwise known as St Andrew's day.
Sunday 18 November 2012
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Monday 12 November 2012
Starbucks chief Troy Alstead was today told his claims that the coffee chain continually made a loss in Britain “just doesn't ring true”.
Wednesday 07 November 2012
The new iPad Mini is now on the shelves but the competition in the tablet market is fiercer than ever, as these devices prove.
Monday 05 November 2012
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.
Thursday 01 November 2012
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.
Thursday 01 November 2012
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.
Thursday 01 November 2012
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.
Thursday 25 October 2012
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