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Article

2 Jan 2013

Author:
Robert Budden, Financial Times

Corporation tax ‘a question of judgment’ [UK]

WPP’s Sir Martin Sorrell has reignited controversy over the levels of tax paid by multinationals in the UK stating that the amount of corporation tax paid by companies is largely “a question of judgment”…the chief executive of the world’s largest marketing services group said that companies such as Google and Starbucks paid tax more out of a sense of corporate social responsibility than in order to comply with the law…His remarks could reignite debate over the effectiveness of UK tax laws following public anger over the amount of corporation tax paid by some international companies with operations in the UK.