Google 'tax dodge' petition launched

13.08.2012

It was revealed last year that Google's UK practice had paid just £935,000, or 0.4 percent, of tax on revenues of £239 million.

In the six years leading up to the end of 2010, Google paid a total of £8 million of corporation tax in the UK.

Eric Schmidt, Google's executive chairman, has previously said: "We could pay more tax, but we would have to do so voluntarily."