Posted on 05/18/2013 5:29:53 PM PDT by NoLibZone
A FORMER Google executive has blown the whistle on a massive and “immoral” tax avoidance scheme that has “cheated” British taxpayers out of hundreds of millions of pounds over the past decade.
Barney Jones, 34, who worked for the internet search giant between 2002 and 2006, has lifted the lid on an elaborate structure which diverts British profits through Ireland to the Bermuda tax haven.
Although Google’s London sales staff would negotiate and sign contracts with British customers, and cash was paid into a UK bank account, deals were technically booked through its Dublin office to minimise its liabilities here. Jones, a devout Christian and father of four, is ready to hand over a cache of more than 100,000 emails and documents to HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC), detailing the “concocted scheme”.
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See: Warren Buffet sued by IRS for back taxes for 8 years in a row, then receives medal form Obama.
Seriously, if you want to take the political bias out of the process of deciding who does or does not pay income taxes you have to learn to be even handed yourself.
Frankly, the only way you're going to be successful at this is to work to abolish the antiquated failed government program called 'the income tax'.
Even in England they can't administer it 'fairly' ~ and, BTW, as Conservatives we are against the Democrat demand for 'fairness' because, after all, it's never fair!
Did Google break any laws? I doubt it. The last time I checked there is nothing wrong with avoiding taxes as long as you play by the rules.
As if the taxpayers would have paid one farthing less if this scheme hadn't happened. The government would have lowered the tax rates? Uh, no.
I love it when people talk about saving taxpayer dollars, as if the taxpayers would actually see the benefit of the savings. What rubbish.
You’re comparing a legal tax exempt status to an illegal tax evasion. I understand what you’re saying but it’s two different things, is it not?
I consider it a credit to a nationstate that it can manipulate its tax code such that even the richest, and the poorest, can walk away from this antiquated tax!
Google is liberal - it supports Obama and the call for more taxes.
Google itself , while promoting that everyone pay more taxes, does all it can to avoid taxes.
Its Hypocrisy
Leave it to the totalitarians to try to pin that rap on somebody.
Worrying about hypocrisy will never win the battle against the income tax.
They never lower the rate because all the cheaters have been caught.
“Google itself , while promoting that everyone pay more taxes, does all it can to avoid taxes.”
There is absolutely nothing wrong with avoiding paying taxes so long as they are legal. Avoiding isn’t the same as cheating.
Their hypocrisy is the issue not the legality of what they did.
Liberals don’t practice how they vote and preacj
Their hypocrisy is the issue not the legality of what they did.
Liberals don’t practice how they vote and preach
Anyone that doesn’t use the tax code to avoid all taxes that they can is stupid!!!
Apparently this whistleblower thinks they did break the law. I have no idea ,but it is pathetic for a pro tax company like Google to play as aggressively as they do.
Thanks NoLibZone.
A lib never met a tax he didn't like except when he has to pay it. Of course they have the means to avoid taxes but us working schlumps still have to pay 40% of our income for their feel good programs.
About 12-15 years ago, a Russian singer (Alla Pugacheva)and her then husband (Philip Kirkorov) argued (unsuccessfully) that “stars” should not have to pay taxes because their “talent” did so much to benefit the little people.
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