Labour leader Ed Miliband has slammed Google's tax arrangements at Google's Big Tent event today. Google had denied accusations from MPs that it minimises the amount of tax paid in Britain. Its sales in the UK are worth £3.2bn, but ...
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Google chairman Eric Schmidt has encouraged the UK government to open up a debate about reforming international tax laws, a week after the firm had been heavily criticised for "doing evil" by the chair of the public accounts committee, ...
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Google has denied accusations from MPs that it minimises the amount of tax paid in Britain, claiming that all sales staff operate out of Dublin rather than being based in the UK. Google's sales in the UK are worth £3.2bn, but the ...
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Google has been recalled to give evidence about its UK tax arrangements to parliament's Public Accounts Committee (PAC) for a second time. Google's auditor, Ernst & Young, will also be required to provide further evidence. It comes after ...
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A mining company with a plan to do for emeralds what De Beers has done for diamonds has been delivered a blow by the government it is in partnership with. Seemingly out of the blue, the Zambia Ministry of Mines, Energy and Water ...
Yesterday, Chancellor George Osborne delivered his Budget statement. He pledged to scrap a 3p rise in fuel duty, cut national insurance payments and raise the personal allowance to £10,000 next April. Every business in the country ...
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Premier Foods faces six key challenges – including: managing consumer demand uncertainties, reducing its borrowing and grappling with its pension deficit – according to City analyst Investec. Commodity concern: Premier ...
Small and medium-sized companies around the country are being invited to a series of one-day workshops on Government support for business, research and development (R&D) and innovation. One such event takes place at the ATRiuM, Cardiff on 6 ...
Members of the GMB union are staging a number of demonstrations across nine Amazon UK depots today (Wednesday, February 13th). The dispute concerns staff wages, which are £6.20 an hour - one penny above the UK minimum wage, ...
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Associated British Foods (ABF) is embroiled in a tax dodging row with the charity ActionAid over its sugar-producing subsidiary in Zambia. Kingsmill owner ABF denied tax dodging in Zambia According to a report published by the charity, ...
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Donal O Riain, CEO and founder of Ecocem, told the Irish Times that the the anomaly occurred because the domestic cement sector had lost 75 per cent of its demand since the peak years, yet the allocation of ETS credits to the sector was ...
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Government officials are considering the viability of ordering suppliers bidding for Whitehall contracts to disclose the amount of tax they pay in the UK relative to their UK revenue, Computer Weekly has learned. The move follows recent ...
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Facebook's store of data about its users holds some surprises, and not just in the sheer quantity of data it is sitting on. Among the surprises it held for me was SBupsk. One of 47 topics about which Facebook thinks I am interested in ...
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The National Audit Office (NAO) today ruled that Vodafone’s settlement of its UK tax bill was "reasonable", despite being almost GBP 5bn less than it was originally thought to have owed. The mobile operator came under scrutiny ...
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Google has agreed with the UK government to pay just pound 6m in corporation tax this year, despite earning almost pound 400m in revenues. The Daily Telegraph revealed the sum after the Silicon Valley giant filed its accounts for its UK ...
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