Google UK Avoids Paying £450 Million Every Year

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That's nasty; depriving the economy of a whopping £450 million is quite significant. You could easily build a hospital or half a dozen schools with that kind of money. Now multiply it by the number of multi national companies resorting to those tricks and you have a fair idea of the billions that are actually being taken away from the Chancellor's balance sheet.

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