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Margaret Hodge: 'Companies have to pay their share. Tax is a moral issue'
As the tax affairs of Google and Amazon have risen up the agenda, one MP has led the charge. So
, James Moore asks her, what's she planning next?
Margaret Hodge calls for company tax secrets to be exposed
She has chucked bricks at executives from Google, Amazon, Starbucks. She has eviscerated the top
civil servants from HM Revenue & Customs. And she strikes fear into the hearts of the "leaders" of other
dysfunctional public bodies.
So they'll be mightily relieved that Margaret Hodge, the chairman of the House of Commons Public
Accounts Committee, is planning a brief cease-fire to weigh up her next move.
What they won't like is her pledge that she is by no means done. "We're going to pause for breath
for a moment. We want to stop and think where we go from here strategically," says Hodge of her
crusade to name and shame those involved in global tax avoidance.
But corporate Britain be warned. "They hide behind this taxpayer confidentiality," she says. "For ordinary
people, keeping your affairs confidential - that's only right. But these are very big organisations,
public companies. That makes them different."