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    'You do evil': MPs confront Google over 'devious' attempt to avoid paying UK tax - the day


    after Amazon's own revelations

    Internet giants on back foot after shopping giant admitted it receives more in government

    grants than it pays in UK corporate tax

    Google's tax policy is devious, unethical and far from the company's stated aim to 'do no evil', MPs said today.

    In a damning indictment of the Internet giant members of the Public Accounts Committee said they did

    not believe their claims that they were not effectively selling advertising in the UK.

    They accused the company of a "calculated" attempt to avoid tax at a time of huge pressure on public finances.

    "I think you do evil," the committee's chair Margaret Hodge told Google's European head of sales Matt Brittin.

    Giving evidence to MPs on the Public Accounts Committee the head of Google sales in Europe Matt Brittin

    insisted that all its sales were completed in Dublin.

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