{"id":7072,"date":"2012-11-12T11:49:01","date_gmt":"2012-11-12T10:49:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/?p=7072"},"modified":"2012-11-15T11:51:59","modified_gmt":"2012-11-15T10:51:59","slug":"google-amazon-and-starbucks-face-questions-on-tax-avoidance-from-mps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/2012\/11\/12\/google-amazon-and-starbucks-face-questions-on-tax-avoidance-from-mps\/","title":{"rendered":"Google, Amazon and Starbucks face questions on tax avoidance from MPs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/technology\/2012\/nov\/12\/google-amazon-starbucks-tax-avoidance\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-7073\" title=\"Google, Amazon and Starbucks face questions on tax avoidance from MPs\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/newTemplate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/121115_tax.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"130\" \/><\/a>Google, Amazon and Starbucks will face aggressive and detailed questioning by MPs on Monday over  their decision to base their European businesses outside the UK to avoid  paying full UK tax. Responding to a growing public anger over  corporate tax avoidance and heightened by high-profile government cuts  to public services, the public accounts select committee will be asking Google, Amazon and Starbucks to explain structures such as Ireland- and  Luxembourg-registered offices which incur lower tax rates, and also how  they charge their own subsidiary companies for services, a practice  known as transfer pricing. The session begins at 3.15pm, with  Google UK chief executive Matt Brittin and Amazon public policy director  Andrew Cecil due to appear. Starbucks chief financial officer Troy  Alstead and UK managing director Kris Engskov will also give evidence. The  companies&#8217; tax avoidance methods have been criticised by MPs, while  even the Taxpayers&#8217; Alliance \u2014 which usually criticises the levels of  tax demanded by government \u2014 told the Guardian that &#8220;some big companies  with clever accountants can exploit loopholes to minimise their bills&#8221;  with the result that &#8220;families are left feeling short-changed.&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/technology\/2012\/nov\/12\/google-amazon-starbucks-tax-avoidance\" target=\"_blank\">More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>News selected by Covalence | Country: USA |  Company: Google, Amazon, Starbucks\u00c2\u00a0 | Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/technology\/2012\/nov\/12\/google-amazon-starbucks-tax-avoidance\" target=\"_blank\">The Guardian<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google, Amazon and Starbucks will face aggressive and detailed questioning by MPs on Monday over their decision to base their European businesses outside the UK to avoid paying full UK tax. Responding to a growing public anger over corporate tax avoidance and heightened by high-profile government cuts to public services, the public accounts select committee&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":665,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_post_series":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[687,178,41],"post_series":[],"class_list":["post-7072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-amazon","tag-google","tag-starbucks","entry","no-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/665"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7072\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7072"},{"taxonomy":"post_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_series?post=7072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}