Starbucks, Amazon and Google to face MPs
Starbucks, Google and Amazon will face a public grilling at the House of Commons public accounts committee today, when MPs will quiz the companies on tax avoidance.
The Public Accounts Committee (PAC), which is charged with monitoring government financial affairs, has invited the companies to give evidence amid mounting public and political concern about tax avoidance by big international companies.
MPs grill companies over 'immoral' tax avoidance
Big brands Amazon, Starbucks and Google were questioned by MPs today on their entirely legal tax avoidance methods.
Why MPs can't be too outraged at US giants' tax affairs
MPs will today pour scorn at the UK tax affairs of the likes of Amazon and Starbucks, despite setting the rules within which they operate.
