Just two months after a UK investigation into Google’s mishandling of Street View data was re-opened, the company is facing criticism of a different kind. John Mann, British MP and member of the Treasury Select Committee, had harsh words for the company’s £6 million (about $9.4 million) tax bill on £395 million (about $619 million) in earnings, reports The Independent. Mann called Google’s (completely legal) tax avoidance scheme “entirely improper and immoral,” adding that he thinks “it would be highly appropriate to pull a Google executive in front of the Committee to justify their failure to pay proper taxes… sometime before Easter, realistically.”
The Telegraph describes a system whereby, in order to minimize...
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