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"Google has been branded &amp;quot;devious&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;calculating&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;unethical&amp;quot; by MPs. MPs from the public accounts committee met with Google vice president Matt Brittin on Thursday (May 16). They questioned him as to why Google reported profits from Ireland - where taxes are lower - while sales staff are based in the UK.  &amp;quot;If sales activity is taking place in the UK, you are misleading both parliament and the tax authorities in suggesting that is not happening,&amp;quot; committee chair Margaret Hodge argued. &amp;quot;All of our advertising is sold via invoicing from Google Ireland,&amp;quot; Brittin claimed at the meeting. &amp;quot;The UK team are selling, but they are not closing ... People here [in the UK] cannot sell what they don&amp;#039;t own.&amp;quot; Google has come under close scrutiny after it was revealed the web giant paid just \u00A33.4million in tax last year, despite making \u00A33.2billion.   Amazon has also come under fire for its tax payments recently, and is alleged to have paid \u00A33.2million in corporation tax on 2012 sales of \u00A34.2bn. Hodge, who is Labour MP for Barking, also attacked Google&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;Don&amp;#039;t be evil&amp;quot; motto at the committee&amp;#039;s hearing. &amp;quot;You are a company that says you &amp;#039;do no evil&amp;#039;. And I think that you do do evil,&amp;quot; she said. Brittin was recalled by MPs to clarify previous comments, after they accused him of misleading parliament in evidence given to the committee last year. Hodge has also hinted recently that Amazon executives could be recalled to clarify previous statements. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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