What did this man suggest should be done with Google's tax payment?

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Audience Member Makes a Very Good Point About Google Tax Payment
Audience Member Makes a Very Good Point About Google Tax Payment


A member of the Question Time audience last night revisited the ongoing debate about Google's tax payments in the UK.

Earlier this week Prime Minister David Cameron defended the deal that has been made with the tech giant.

According to the BBC, Google have agreed that they will pay the HMRC £130 million worth of tax, which dates back 11 years to 2005.

The tax discrepancy was revealed after an 'open audit conducted by the HMRC and UK tax authorities.

One audience member at Question Time last night used his moment on the microphone to suggest what the money Google owe in taxes could be used for. %VIRTUAL-ArticleSidebar-tax%

Here's what he suggested: "There are a few fundamental issues at play here. Firstly there have been three different terms used for these people: asylum seeker, refugee and migrant, all of which appear to be disparaging."

"The Conservative gentleman spent the last 15 minutes pitching his party and had they got the right amount of tax from Google we could afford to bring in these refugees."

The audience member was referring to Conservative Transport Secretary,Patrick McLoughlin, who was sitting on David Dimbleby's panel last night.

Other questions aimed at the panel included: "The average worker pays 20% in tax but Google only pays 3%, why is it one rule for multi-national corporations and another for hard-working people?"

Jess Phillips, Labour MP for Birmingham Yardley, denounced Google's actions as 'completely and utterly unfair', she also suggested that the Google tax affair was 'shrouded in some sort of secrecy.'

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