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Google, Apple, Facebook To Pay After Bus Protests

A storm in a bus stop as tech firms agree to contribute after street protests in San Francisco

11 years ago

Google Staff Bus Halted By Angry Protests

Residents in San Francisco stopped a bus carrying Google staff to protest at its contribution to local coffers

11 years ago

Osborne Gives Data Centres A Green Bonus

The data centre industry gets green tax relief in George Osborne's Autumn Statement

11 years ago

Green Taxes Need To Catch Up With Data Centres

Governents want to use green taxes to regulate emissions - but Peter Judge thinks they don't understand the special role…

11 years ago

Italian Government Wants To Force Online Companies To Pay More Tax

Google and Amazon could be legally required to use local services when doing business in Italy

11 years ago

Ireland Cracks Down On Tax Loophole Used By Apple

Ireland is to close a legal loophole used by Apple that allows companies to remain 'stateless' for tax purposes -…

11 years ago

Google Pays Only £11.6m UK Corporation Tax For 2012

Despite £3bn in sales from UK customers, Google pumps the money where it won't get taxed

11 years ago

eBay Announces Argos Deal For Click And Collect

eBay expands click and collect strategy in the UK, but may draw more attention to its tax practices

11 years ago

Five Arrested After Attempted $500k Tax Fraud

Arrests follow probe into scheme that saw 700 UK citizens' identities stolen

11 years ago

US Shields Its Digital Companies Against Tax Reform

The White House could resist closing loopholes in international tax law

11 years ago

Mt. Gox Suspends Withdrawals In US Dollars

The virtual currency exchange assures users that taking a time-out will let it process transactions faster in the future

12 years ago

New Amazon London Office To House 1,600 Staff

Mayor of London Boris Johnson welcomes Amazon expansion despite tax controversies

12 years ago

Apple’s Tim Cook Blames The US Tax System

Cook wants lower taxes on 'repatriated' money. Michelle Maisto says it's not just an Apple issue

12 years ago

US Senate Criticises Apple Tax Arrangements

Apple rejects accusations it uses off-shore accounts to minimise tax bill ahead of Tim Cook meeting

12 years ago

Google Is Dodging Taxes In The UK, Says Ex-Employee

Yet another whistleblower claims Google has not been paying its fair share of tax

12 years ago

Quiz Of The Week: Amazon.com

How well do you know the retail and cloud giant, Amazon.com? Try our quiz!

12 years ago

France Will Tax Smartphones To Support Culture

Across the channel the government is mulling a new tax on smartphones and tablets to protect French culture

12 years ago

Google To Once Again Testify On Tax Practices In The UK

Google says it is not selling anything from the UK, even though it has plenty of sales staff here

12 years ago

Amazon Tax Petition To Hit Downing Street Tomorrow

Amazon pays no UK tax, petition complains

12 years ago

Eric Schmidt Defends Google UK Tax Arrangements

Google Chairman says Google UK tax arrangements comply with the law

12 years ago

MPs Bemoan ‘Tax Avoidance’ Amongst Top Government IT Suppliers

Accenture and Capgemini say they are doing nothing wrong, as MPs vent frustration

12 years ago

MPs Say HMRC Failing To Police ‘Immoral’ UK Tech Tax Arrangements

Public Accounts Committee wants multinational companies like Google and Amazon to pay more UK tax

12 years ago

‘Confidential’ Amazon UK Sales Revealed At £3.3bn In 2011

Government publishes "confidential" Amazon UK sales data, despite protests

12 years ago

MPs Grill Executives Over ‘Immoral’ Google, Amazon Tax Arrangements

Public Accounts Committee lambasts Amazon and Google over the low tax they pay in the UK

12 years ago

Sophos Explains Its Super-Low Corporation Tax Bill… Why Can’t Symantec?

Sophos explains why it pays so little in corporation tax, but Symantec hasn't opened up. Tom Brewster says they should…

12 years ago

Apple Tax Rate Is Just Two Percent Outside US

Apple pays just two percent in corporation tax outside the US

12 years ago

Let’s Save Data Centres From Stupid Austerity!

Data centres' contribution to our economy will be enormous, and they richly deserve a tax break in the form of…

12 years ago

Intellect Calls For Action On Data Centre Tax Breaks

Data centres need a climate change agreement which will cut energy costs, says Intellect

12 years ago

eBay UK Tax Bill Was Just £1.2m in 2010 – Report

eBay is reported to be the latest tech company not to meet the minimum reserve

12 years ago

Facebook UK Tax Arrangements Called Into Question

Facebook apparently paid just tax out on just 11 percent of its estimated revenues last year

12 years ago