{"id":658577,"date":"2013-05-16T14:20:30","date_gmt":"2013-05-16T18:20:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=541345"},"modified":"2013-05-16T14:20:30","modified_gmt":"2013-05-16T18:20:30","slug":"u-k-turns-up-the-heat-in-google-tax-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/658577","title":{"rendered":"U.K turns up the heat in Google tax investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/05\/16\/google-tax-practices-u-k-misleading\/\" class=\"bgr-rss-featured-image bgr-rss-test-class\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i0.wp.com\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/10\/google-sign-3298.jpeg?resize=610%2C436\" class=\"attachment-feed_normal wp-post-image\" alt=\"Google Tax Practices\" title=\"Google Tax Practices\" width=\"610\" height=\"436\" \/><\/a><\/center>Google on Thursday faced questions from British lawmakers regarding the company&#8217;s tax practices, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2013\/05\/16\/us-google-britain-tax-idUSBRE94E0WL20130516?feedType=RSS&amp;feedName=technologyNews\"><em>Reuters<\/em> reported<\/a>. It has been alleged that <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/google\">Google<\/a> may have misled parliament last year when it said it complied with U.K. tax law. The company had previously claimed that, in an effort to avoid additional taxes, it doesn\u2019t make sales to U.K. customers from within the country. An investigation by <em>Reuters<\/em> discovered that this was not the case, however. Google&#8217;s Northern Europe boss Matt Brittin flip-flopped on the issue while being questioned, and said the U.K. team is selling but &#8220;not closing.&#8221; Committee chairwoman Margaret Hodge noted that Google was abandoning its &#8220;don&#8217;t be evil&#8221; mantra and was being deliberately misleading.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/BJh7e0VKXKE\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google on Thursday faced questions from British lawmakers regarding the company&#8217;s tax practices, Reuters reported. It has been alleged that Google may have misled parliament last year when it said it complied with U.K. tax law. The company had previously claimed that, in an effort to avoid additional taxes, it doesn\u2019t make sales to U.K. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7439,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-658577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7439"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=658577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658577\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}